UMS support is gone and will not be coming back, but the problem where intel tries to claim the driver stopping vesa or fbdev from working if you use nomodeset has been fixed upstream
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=455f2939a661764ebb8d1747d44e16a0a8937808
UMS support is gone and will not be coming back, but the problem where intel tries to claim the driver stopping vesa or fbdev from working if you use nomodeset has been fixed upstream
http:// cgit.freedeskto p.org/xorg/ driver/ xf86-video- intel/commit/ ?id=455f2939a66 1764ebb8d1747d4 4e16a0a8937808