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From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
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        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/6] Documentation/admin-guide: Document nomodeset kernel parameter
Date:   Mon,  8 Nov 2021 13:15:43 +0100
Message-Id: <20211108121544.776590-6-javierm@redhat.com>
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The nomodeset kernel command line parameter is not documented. Its name
is quite vague and is not intuitive what's the behaviour when it is set.

Document in kernel-parameters.txt what actually happens when nomodeset
is used. That way, users could know if they want to enable this option.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
---

(no changes since v1)

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 91ba391f9b32..ed9859fd0734 100644
--- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3521,6 +3521,10 @@
 			shutdown the other cpus.  Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
 			irq.
 
+	nomodeset	Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not be
+			loaded when this kernel boot parameter is used. The
+			simpledrm driver is the only DRM driver that loads.
+
 	nomodule	Disable module load
 
 	nopat		[X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
-- 
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