modesetting feature status

[Christopher Snook]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:06 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> ... we really shouldn't shove in major changes like this for a
>> significant chunk of hardware post-beta.  Putting it in the beta means
>> that we get a relatively large chunk of testing done due to the
>> visibility surrounding the beta announce.  As well as having time to fix
>> large problems that are uncovered.  Later milestones both a) lack the
>> time for changes after them and b) the visibility. 
> 
> Yeah, I'm not so keen on doing all of this post-beta.  We've got enough
> stability problems with F10 as it is.  This honestly feels like one of
> those features that just isn't 'testable' by Beta, and thus needs to
> enact the contingency plan.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting#Contingency_Plan
> 
> How do things look for that contingency plan.  Is it even possible at
> this point?

If we're not going to enable it by default, I would rather the modesetting code 
be included, but disabled by default, and let users enable it on the kernel 
command line.

-- Chris