Re: [gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

[Anthony E. Caudel]

Willie Wong wrote:
 On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith 
 Jr. squawked:
 
From what I understand there's not one.  I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports 
the ELF loader.  It could be for the unusual case that you are running an 
X based off of the xf86 tree which, IIRC, only supported the dll loader.

 
 
 The otherway around. Xorg 7 only uses the dlloader. cf.
  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
 
 Also, the dlloader is compatible with hardened systems, while
 elfloader fails horribly when it comes to PIC code. 
  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedxorg.xml
 
 I think the difference is basically that elfloader is built from
 scratch by the X team, while dlloader just uses ld-linux.so from
 glibc. 
 
 W
 
Thanks guys.  From what I've read, dlloader, while not quite
experimental, is not used very much yet.  Perhaps for the future.  The
only packages I would need it for are xorg-x11 and nvidia-glx.  So I
think I'll just enable it for those two only and not globally in make.conf.

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[gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

[Anthony E. Caudel]

In process of switching to nVIDIA drivers and following advice found in
forums to use the latest drivers.  They recommend adding USE flag
dlloader and re-emerging xorg-x11.  I notice from
/use/portage/profiles/use.local.desc that it enables the dynamic module
loader instead of the ELF one.

So my question is why?  What is the advantage?

Tony
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