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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig index 5982321be4d5..1c02d23f6fcc 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ config DRM_RADEON_KMS - bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" + bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER" depends on DRM_RADEON help - Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, - and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old - userspaces with this enabled will cause pain. + Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default. + + This is a completely new driver. It's only part of the existing drm + for compatibility reasons. It requires an entirely different graphics + stack above it and works very differently from the old drm stack. + i.e. don't enable this unless you know what you are doing it may + cause issues or bugs compared to the previous userspace driver stack. When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed |