1config DRM_RADEON_KMS 2 bool "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" 3 depends on DRM_RADEON 4 select DRM_TTM 5 help 6 Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, 7 and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old 8 userspaces with this enabled will cause pain. 9 10 When kernel modesetting is enabled the IOCTL of radeon/drm 11 driver are considered as invalid and an error message is printed 12 in the log and they return failure. 13 14 KMS enabled userspace will use new API to talk with the radeon/drm 15 driver. The new API provide functions to create/destroy/share/mmap 16 buffer object which are then managed by the kernel memory manager 17 (here TTM). In order to submit command to the GPU the userspace 18 provide a buffer holding the command stream, along this buffer 19 userspace have to provide a list of buffer object used by the 20 command stream. The kernel radeon driver will then place buffer 21 in GPU accessible memory and will update command stream to reflect 22 the position of the different buffers. 23 24 The kernel will also perform security check on command stream 25 provided by the user, we want to catch and forbid any illegal use 26 of the GPU such as DMA into random system memory or into memory 27 not owned by the process supplying the command stream. This part 28 of the code is still incomplete and this why we propose that patch 29 as a staging driver addition, future security might forbid current 30 experimental userspace to run. 31 32 This code support the following hardware : R1XX,R2XX,R3XX,R4XX,R5XX 33 (radeon up to X1950). Works is underway to provide support for R6XX, 34 R7XX and newer hardware (radeon from HD2XXX to HD4XXX). 35