Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:43:46AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Fri 12 Mar 2010 00:32:44 +0100, a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:35:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > But that will still need a method for obtaining a memory object for > > the physical address space from the kernel. > > Right. In other words, we still need iopl/mem... Only applications will be adapted to not use it directly anymore. > > > 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... > > And break existing code that uses it? No, not necessarily. I totally agree that flag days are bad, and aliasing would be good for the transitional period. I meant the end result only here :-) -antrik-
