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 systewm 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 ---
drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drv.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drv.c index c7efb43b83ee..860b2230aa08 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drv.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drv.c @@ -287,6 +287,9 @@ static struct platform_driver * const drivers[] = {
static int sti_drm_init(void) { + if (drm_firmware_drivers_only()) + return -ENODEV; + return platform_register_drivers(drivers, ARRAY_SIZE(drivers)); } module_init(sti_drm_init);