disable NOUVEAU

[Kamal Mostafa]

Nouveau can be disabled in linux-aws, and must be disabled in order to disable some ACPI features.

Colin King has demonstrated measurable boot speed improvements (up to 3%)
by disabling many ACPI features not used by cloud kernels. That work also
allows us to unhook additional unused subsystems (Nouveau, gpiolib, pincntrl).
Disk space utilization of the kernel is reduced:
  /boot by ~200KB
  /lib/modules by ~170 Kb

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-aws - 4.4.0-1018.27

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linux-aws (4.4.0-1018.27) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux-aws: 4.4.0-1018.27 -proposed tracker (LP: #1691184)

  * linux xenial derivatives fail to build (LP: #1691814)
    - [Packaging] Set do_tools_common in common vars
    - [Packaging] Do not build tools-common

  * linux-aws/linux-gke incorrectly producing an empty linux-*-source package-*
    (LP: #1690183)
    - [Packaging] drop linux-aws-source-* package

  * linux-aws/linux-gke incorrectly producing and using linux-*-tools-
    common/linux-*-cloud-tools-common (LP: #1688579)
    - [Config] linux-tools-* linux-cloud-tools-* share -common packages with linux

  * disable many ACPI features (LP: #1689372)
    - [config] AWS: disable assorted ACPI features

  * disable NOUVEAU (LP: #1689373)
    - [config] AWS: disable NOUVEAU

  * disable GPIOLIB, PINCTRL, and all consumers of them (LP: #1689374)
    - [config] AWS: disable INTEL_LPSS, AMD_PLATFORM, PINCTRL
    - [config] AWS: disable GPIOLIB

  [ Ubuntu: 4.4.0-79.100 ]

  * linux: 4.4.0-79.100 -proposed tracker (LP: #1691180)
  * linux-aws/linux-gke incorrectly producing and using linux-*-tools-
    common/linux-*-cloud-tools-common (LP: #1688579)
    - [Config] make linux-tools-common and linux-cloud-tools-common provide linux-
      gke versions
    - [Config] make linux-tools-common and linux-cloud-tools-common provide linux-
      aws versions
    - [Packaging] prevent linux-*-tools-common from being produced from non linux
      packages
  * CVE-2017-0605
    - tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()
  * i915-bpo crashes on external hdmi input (LP: #1580272)
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: Silence the warning about watermark entries not changing
  * Kernel panics on Xenial when using cgroups and strict CFS limits
    (LP: #1687512)
    - sched/fair: Initialize throttle_count for new task-groups lazily
    - sched/fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in dequeue_task_fair()
  * bonding - mlx5 - speed changed to 0 after changing ring size (LP: #1687877)
    - bonding: allow notifications for bond_set_slave_link_state
  * Xenial update to 4.4.67 stable release (LP: #1689296)
    - timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper
    - Handle mismatched open calls
    - ASoC: intel: Fix PM and non-atomic crash in bytcr drivers
    - ALSA: ppc/awacs: shut up maybe-uninitialized warning
    - drbd: avoid redefinition of BITS_PER_PAGE
    - mtd: avoid stack overflow in MTD CFI code
    - net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning
    - netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation
    - IB/qib: rename BITS_PER_PAGE to RVT_BITS_PER_PAGE
    - IB/ehca: fix maybe-uninitialized warnings
    - ext4: require encryption feature for EXT4_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY
    - ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key
    - ext4 crypto: use dget_parent() in ext4_d_revalidate()
    - ext4/fscrypto: avoid RCU lookup in d_revalidate
    - nfsd4: minor NFSv2/v3 write decoding cleanup
    - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops
    - dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call
    - Linux 4.4.67
  * Precis...