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QNX® Software Development Platform 6.6 Graphics Patch (Patch ID 3875): Installation Note

Date of this edition: April 23, 2015

Target OS: This patch is compatible with targets that are running the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS 6.6.

Host OS: In order to apply this patch, you must have installed the QNX Software Development Platform 6.6 on one of the following development hosts:

  • Microsoft Windows 8 Professional 64-bit, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, or XP Professional SP3
  • Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit or Ubuntu Workstation LTS 12.04 32- and 64-bit

New: You must have already installed the following patch:

  • QNX Software Development Platform 6.6 Applypatch Patch (Patch ID 4024)

Note: For information about the issues that this patch addresses, see the release notes.

This note includes:

Installing this patch

  1. On Windows hosts, run cmd.exe; on Linux hosts, start a command shell.
  2. Set up your QNX SDP 6.6.0 environment:
    • On Windows hosts, run: 
      base_directory\qnx660-env.bat
    • On Linux hosts, run: 
      source base_directory/qnx660-env.sh

    where base_directory is where you installed QNX SDP 6.6.

  3. Download the patch-660-3875-660-Graphics-GA.tar archive to your host environment.
  4. Verify that the patch's checksum matches the one given on our website.
  5. Use the applypatch utility to install the patch: 
    applypatch -F download_path/patch-660-3875-660-Graphics-GA.tar

    where download_path is the location of the patch file.

    Specifying the -F option of applypatch will turn off prompting by forcing a 'y' to all queries and will replace all local files with the version from the patch.

    Note:

    If you do not use -F with the the applypatch, you may get a warning that there are files that are newer on the disk than in the patch. In this case, for each file included in the patch, you will be prompted either to replace that file with the version from the patch ('y') or to keep the original version on the disk ('n').

    You can continue to install the patch by answering 'y' to each prompt.

    For more information about applypatch, see its entry in the Utilities Reference.

Removing deprecated files

In this patch, the Intel DRM server was renamed from drm_intel_hd to drm-intel. We recommend that you back up and then delete the following:

  • $QNX_TARGET/x86/sbin/drm_intel_hd
  • $QNX_TARGET/x86/sbin/drm_intel_hd_g

Uninstalling this patch

  1. On Windows hosts, run cmd.exe; on Linux hosts, start a command shell.
  2. Set up your QNX SDP 6.6.0 environment:
    • On Windows hosts, run: 
      base_directory\qnx660-env.bat
    • On Linux hosts, run: 
      source base_directory/qnx660-env.sh

    where base_directory is where you installed QNX SDP 6.6.

  3. Use the applypatch utility to uninstall the patch: 
    applypatch -U 3875
    Caution: Due to the nature of the patching process, any patch that was installed after this patch will be uninstalled as well. In effect, you'll roll back to the state the system was in just before this patch and all subsequent patches were applied.

    For more information about applypatch, see its entry in the Utilities Reference.

Note:

Restore the previous versions of the following files from the backups you made:

  • $QNX_TARGET/x86/sbin/drm_intel_hd
  • $QNX_TARGET/x86/sbin/drm_intel_hd_g

Technical support

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