diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 69d8ed5416c31b2e80538fabec553e333fd741ea..72e2be7a6c802f376318b8f557215d5d3fbe08cf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -799,6 +799,12 @@ static int i915_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 	struct intel_device_info *intel_info =
 		(struct intel_device_info *) ent->driver_data;
 
+	if (IS_PRELIMINARY_HW(intel_info) && !i915_preliminary_hw_support) {
+		DRM_INFO("This hardware requires preliminary hardware support.\n"
+			 "See CONFIG_DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT, and/or modparam preliminary_hw_support\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	/* Only bind to function 0 of the device. Early generations
 	 * used function 1 as a placeholder for multi-head. This causes
 	 * us confusion instead, especially on the systems where both
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index e52648927475149ed4138f281aa2db1bec576723..c86a7186e7729fd34d6bb0794ec01b019971c934 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ struct intel_uncore {
 	func(is_ivybridge) sep \
 	func(is_valleyview) sep \
 	func(is_haswell) sep \
+	func(is_preliminary) sep \
 	func(has_force_wake) sep \
 	func(has_fbc) sep \
 	func(has_pipe_cxsr) sep \
@@ -1605,6 +1606,7 @@ struct drm_i915_file_private {
 				 ((dev)->pci_device & 0xFF00) == 0x0A00)
 #define IS_HSW_GT3(dev)		(IS_HASWELL(dev) && \
 				 ((dev)->pci_device & 0x00F0) == 0x0020)
+#define IS_PRELIMINARY_HW(intel_info) ((intel_info)->is_preliminary)
 
 /*
  * The genX designation typically refers to the render engine, so render