modesetting feature status

[Stephen Warren]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:18 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> They'll get text boot, yes.

Oh, that's not an F9-style boot. Are you saying that systems where kms
doesn't work can't get any form of graphical boot at all?