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Hide experimental Haswell GPU support behind a tunable
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Authored by dumbbell on Jan 30 2015, 9:01 PM.
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The goal is to avoid a regression for people having a Haswell GPU and xf86-video-intel installed. The DDX will kldload i915kms causing the screen to go blank because the device is attached but not fully initialized.

The tuanble is "drm.i915.enable_haswell" (0 by default, set to 1 to enable experimental Haswell support).

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 30 2015, 9:07 PM

Please do not do it this way. Splitting the list with pciids means more useless work later.

If you really think that such change is needed, I created what I consider a proper patch, D1744.