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Documentation/admin-guide: Document nomodeset kernel parameter
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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/[email protected]
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Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
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irq.
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nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
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display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
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system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
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set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
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Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
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nomodule Disable module load
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nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of

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