On 17 Feb 2010, Adam Jackson said: > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:30 +0200, Nameer Yarkon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does X11 still uses /dev/mem to directly manipulate the physical memory ? > > strace would tell you. The answer is "it depends" though. On Linux, > most memory access goes through the PCI BAR resource files in sysfs, but > there are some situations where we still have to use /dev/mem.
Am I right in assuming that pretty much all of these are UMS-related? i.e., in KMS the only thing now stopping us running X as non-root at long last is the input-device-revocation problem? _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
