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Hi!

We are currently developing a Linux kernel patch which restricts access to 
/dev/mem based on some kind of access control list. Since our main target is 
the X server we wonder how to get the information which memory areas are 
needed by the gfx card resp. its driver.

Our planned startup sequence is currently:

1) X Server probing

2) setting of acl

3) X Server start

In step 2 we need all information about used memory areas. This has to be 
independent of the gfx card driver of course.

Any idea how to get this information? We thought of looking at /proc/iomem or 
at the Xfree log file but it does not have a good parsable structure. Is it 
possible to define some kind of XML output which makes such an output 
parsable? We do not want to have an additional mini-parser for each type of 
gfx card driver.

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Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing.), [EMAIL PROTECTED], Software Development
secunet Security Networks AG - Sicherheit in Netzwerken (www.secunet.de),
Weidenauer Str. 223-225, D-57076 Siegen
Tel. : +49 271 48950-13, Fax  : +49 271 48950-50
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