Hi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:35:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Using the iopl device is a bit of a hack, a more proper solution needs > to be done. I don't consider it a hack. What would be a more "proper" solution in your opinion?... Of course, one day hopefully we will have a lovely PCI bus server, which allows clients to map individual regions according to the device configuration... But that will still need a method for obtaining a memory object for the physical address space from the kernel. > Maybe in the meanwhile we should alias mem and iopl in the gnumach > kernel, so already installed hurds can run Xorg (and the name "iopl" > doesn't sound so good to me to replace mem :)). Yeah, I actually mentioned on IRC that probably the best fix is renaming the kernel device... -antrik-
