modesetting feature status

[Stephen Warren]

On Thu, September 11, 2008 1:18 am, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So one of the features we've been trying to land for F10 that is a major
> change in how we deal with graphics hardware in the Linux world.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting

What will happen on unsupported hardware (NVIDIA, unsupported ATI/Intel
chipsets)? Will the system simply fall back to the existing F9-style
startup sequence. I assume the X.org drivers won't be coded to assume that
kernel modesetting has already run? How will X.org drivers detect this?

How will this interact with proprietary binary drivers from NVIDIA and
ATI, which don't know anything about this new feature?