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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index 0c86c4840df3..9a5424180127 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1477,8 +1477,11 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
info = (struct intel_device_info *) flags;
/* Refuse to load on gen6+ without kms enabled. */
- if (info->gen >= 6 && !drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET))
+ if (info->gen >= 6 && !drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) {
+ DRM_INFO("Your hardware requires kernel modesetting (KMS)\n");
+ DRM_INFO("See CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS, nomodeset, and i915.modeset parameters\n");
return -ENODEV;
+ }
dev_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev_priv), GFP_KERNEL);
if (dev_priv == NULL)
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