i915kms.ko: when loaded with Haswell HD4600, display goes blank

[Jia-Shiun Li]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> wait a sec - before the dri2 update, what exactly were you doing? What
> happened when you loaded i915kms? Nothing should've been found and no
> i915 driver should've been running
>
> There's no haswell support for i915kms, so it shouldn't have worked
> /at all/. You should've just gotten either vt(4) or sc(4) + vesa as a
> console, and VESA graphics.
>
> As a workaround, you can just not load i915kms, or patch i915kms to
> not detect your haswell chipset.
>

Haswell device IDs were added in r277487 too.
So does it mean people should start to test and report bugs regarding
Haswell?


-Jia-Shiun.