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

[Darren Hart]

On 10/10/14, 11:48, "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:

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>On 10/10/14, 1:34 PM, "Darren Hart" <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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>>On 10/10/14, 10:46, "Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:
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>>>On 10/10/14, 10:31 AM, "Zanussi, Tom" <tom.zanussi at intel.com> wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 12:25 -0500, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
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>>>>> On 10/10/14, 6:37 AM, "Zanussi, Tom" <tom.zanussi at intel.com> wrote:
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>>>>> >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.
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>>Does gma500 work anywhere? If not, perhaps it doesn't belong in the
>>intel-common BSPs. I really wanted it to be a reasonable fallback to
>>EMGD,
>>but it just doesn't seem to work anywhere.
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>It does work on and needed for the emenlow-noemgd BSP.

OK, glad it works somewhere! :-)

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center