On 5/2/06, Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote:
Jon stop being so dramatic, this is just like letting userspace map the BARs, without ownership through sysfs, which is a good thing, you can still map /dev/mem, look we have lots of ways to shoot ourselves in the foot, if we *want* to.
So why don't we just build a VGA class driver or make null fbdev drivers? That solution works and stays in the model of one driver per device and user space using a device driver to control the hardware. This is a known problem and we have a valid solution, why build a new API perpetuating the old model? If there wasn't a workable alternative available I wouldn't be complaining. Have you seen this method of getting root from X? http://www.cansecwest.com/slides06/csw06-duflot.ppt It is referenced from Theo de Raadt interview on kerneltrap http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550 I am happy to see progress being made at getting X out of the PCI bus business. -- Jon Smirl [email protected] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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