The i915's implementation of KMS requires GEM in order to manage the
memory and execution domains of the framebuffer and associated
resources. By the point at which we detect broken a BIOS and need to
disable GEM, we have already registered ourselves as a KMS driver with
several subsystems. Rather than introducing a fragile unwind and attempt
to continue with UMS, spit out an error and unload the driver.
References:
[Bug 15754] IP: [<ffffffffa0207589>] drm_mm_search_free+0x49/0x90 [drm]
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15754