drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to drivers/video

2022-11-16T12:26:12Z

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 Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221111133024.9897-2-tzimmermann@suse.de

drm: Fix build error caused by missing drm_nomodeset.o

2021-11-27T20:05:58Z

The patch for commit 6a2d2ddf2c34 ("drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to the DRM subsystem") was generated with config 'diff.noprefix true'. But later was applied using 'cat nomodeset.mbox | dim apply-branch' on a machine with 'diff.noprefix false'. And command 'git am --scissors -3' as used by the dim tool doesn't handle that case well, since the 3-way merge wrongly resolves the path for new file drivers/gpu/drm/drm_nomodeset.c as gpu/drm/drm_nomodeset.c instead. It led to the following build error as reported by the kernel test robot: make[4]: *** No rule to make target 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_nomodeset.o', needed by 'drivers/gpu/drm/built-in.a'. Fixes: 6a2d2ddf2c34 ("drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to the DRM subsystem") Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211127191910.709356-1-javierm@redhat.com

linux/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_nomodeset.c, branch v6.2

drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to drivers/video

drm: Fix build error caused by missing drm_nomodeset.o