[PATCH v3 5/6] Documentation/admin-guide: Document nomodeset kernel parameter

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Mon Nov 08 2021 - 07:16:16 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

(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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