Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Add 'modeset' module parameter

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>]

On 5/12/22 08:17, Christian König wrote:
> Am 11.05.22 um 20:36 schrieb Alex Deucher:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:20 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Many DRM drivers feature a 'modeset' argument, which can be used to
>>> enable/disable the entire driver (as opposed to passing nomodeset to the
>>> kernel, which would disable modesetting globally and make it difficult to
>>> load amdgpu afterwards). Apparently amdgpu is actually missing this
>>> however, so let's add it!
>> You can already do that by passing modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu on the
>> kernel command line.  I don't think we need another option to do that.
> 
> Yeah, this already came up multiple times and so far we have always 
> rejected it.
> 
> Stuffing that into drivers is not a good approach I think. If we want to 
> prevent some device from exposing it's display functionalities we should 
> rather push that into the drm layer.
>

Absolutely agree on this. I think what we want is a drm.modeset parameter
that would have more precedence than "nomodeset". Because the latter is a
built-in parameter and so it can't be disabled at runtime using sysfs.

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat