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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/60] drm/malidp: Add support for the nomodeset kernel
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To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc:     Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
References: <20211215010008.2545520-1-javierm@redhat.com>
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From:   Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@foss.arm.com>
Organization: Arm Ltd.
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Seems fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@arm.com>

On 12/15/21 00:59, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 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/arm/malidp_drv.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
> index 78d15b04b105..5da4168eb76d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
> @@ -938,6 +938,9 @@ static int malidp_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	struct device_node *port;
>   	struct component_match *match = NULL;
>   
> +	if (drm_firmware_drivers_only())
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
>   	if (!pdev->dev.of_node)
>   		return -ENODEV;
>