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: default avatarJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211112133230.1595307-6-javierm@redhat.com
parent e9aeeba2
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shutdown the other cpus. Instead use the REBOOT_VECTOR
irq.
nomodeset Disable kernel modesetting. DRM drivers will not perform
display-mode changes or accelerated rendering. Only the
system framebuffer will be available for use if this was
set-up by the firmware or boot loader.
Useful as fallback, or for testing and debugging.
nomodule Disable module load
nopat [X86] Disable PAT (page attribute table extension of
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