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drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to drivers/video
authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:30:23 +0000 (14:30 +0100)
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:26:12 +0000 (13:26 +0100)
commit9a758d8756daab5b8fda006e131c066336b16a32
tree453f3eeffd5bbd66a22124082738d9473b61f4ab
parent27c3e9452d552ea86369a94f23287a9675f2d7a1
drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to drivers/video

Move the nomodeset kernel parameter to drivers/video to make it
available to non-DRM drivers. Adapt the interface, but keep the DRM
interface drm_firmware_drivers_only() to avoid churn within DRM. The
function should later be inlined into callers.

The parameter disables any DRM graphics driver that would replace a
driver for firmware-provided scanout buffers. It is an option to easily
fallback to basic graphics output if the hardware's native driver is
broken. Moving it to a more prominent location wil make it available
to fbdev as well.

v2:
* clarify the meaning of the nomodeset parameter (Javier)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221111133024.9897-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile
drivers/video/Kconfig
drivers/video/Makefile
drivers/video/nomodeset.c [moved from drivers/gpu/drm/drm_nomodeset.c with 63% similarity]
include/drm/drm_drv.h
include/video/nomodeset.h [new file with mode: 0644]