According to disable Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, this parameter can be used to disable kernel modesetting.
DRM drivers will not perform display-mode changes or accelerated rendering and only the system framebuffer will be available if it was set-up.
But only a few DRM drivers currently check for nomodeset, make this driver to also support the command line parameter.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com ---
(no changes since v1)
drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c index 2720a58ccd90..eaf67b9e5f12 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_drv.c @@ -727,6 +727,9 @@ static int omapdrm_init(struct omap_drm_private *priv, struct device *dev)
DBG("%s", dev_name(dev));
+ if (drm_firmware_drivers_only()) + return -ENODEV; + /* Allocate and initialize the DRM device. */ ddev = drm_dev_alloc(&omap_drm_driver, dev); if (IS_ERR(ddev))