Re: Radeon KMS removed from linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.35-2

[Stephan Schreiber <info@fs-driver.org>]

Quoting Émeric Maschino:

> Back from a break, I've updated my Wheezy setup, just to discover that
> Xorg.0.log complains that [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't
> supported.
> And indeed, grep KMS /boot/config-3.2.0-4-mckinley reports
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS is not set :-(
> Any reason for this? I had no problem with previous
> linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley 3.2.32-1 and Radeon KMS enabled.

You can read in the changelog of linux (3.2.35-1):
...
[ Ben Hutchings ]
...
* [!x86] radeon: Disable DRM_RADEON_KMS, as this is still not expected to
    work (Closes: #628972)
...


> Should I file a bug report?

I think you should. Ask whether DRM_RADEON_KMS can be enabled again on ia64.

Regards
Stephan