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 <javi...@redhat.com> --- drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c index b630614b3d72..174d3d7790e6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c @@ -373,6 +373,9 @@ static int sun4i_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct endpoint_list list; int i, ret, count = 0; + if (drm_firmware_drivers_only()) + return -ENODEV; + INIT_KFIFO(list.fifo); for (i = 0;; i++) { -- 2.33.1