[meta-intel] [PATCH 1/3] crownbay-noemgd: disable the gma500_gfx module

[Tom Zanussi]

On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 15:11 -0700, nitin.a.kamble at intel.com wrote:
> From: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
> 
> The gmx500 graphics driver does not work on this BSP, but it takes
> the ownership of the graphics hardware at boot time, blocking other
> drivers from using the graphics hardware.
> 
> Fix the issue by blacklisting the gma500_gfx kernel module in the kmod
> configuration, so that it doesn't get loaded at boot time.
> 

Is this really the right way to do this?  It will only work if
CONFIG_XXX=m.  If m->y at some point, the whole .bbappend becomes
useless at best.

Tom

> Fixes Bug:
> [YOCTO #6807]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
> ---
>  meta-crownbay/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_git.bbappend | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta-crownbay/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_git.bbappend
> 
> diff --git a/meta-crownbay/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_git.bbappend b/meta-crownbay/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_git.bbappend
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..56d8fcb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-crownbay/recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_git.bbappend
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +do_install_append () {
> +	echo "blacklist gma500_gfx" > ${D}${sysconfdir}/modprobe.d/prohibit_gma500_gfx.conf
> +}