Hi

Am 15.12.21 um 10:51 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
If we have nomodeset on the kernel command line we should have the
firmware framebuffer driver kept as is and not try to load the
full-blown KMS driver.

In this case, let's just register the v3d driver.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <max...@cerno.tech>
---
  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c
index 16abc3a3d601..d3cae84a4c4e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c
@@ -357,6 +357,9 @@ static int __init vc4_drm_register(void)
  {
        int ret;
+ if (drm_firmware_drivers_only())
+               return -ENODEV;
+

Just now that you've updated it, Lucas Stach had a similar concern about etnaviv, which doesn't do modesetting either. So we probably want to discuss what to do about drivers that have no modesetting separately.

If you want to land the patch, for either version of the code, with or without vc3:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de>

Best regard
Thomas

        ret = platform_register_drivers(component_drivers,
                                        ARRAY_SIZE(component_drivers));
        if (ret)


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Graphics Driver Developer
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