Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> Xorg does have open source drivers for the ATI hardware that could
>> possibly be ported in the future by someone other than the SPARC
>> graphics organization (one of our engineers got it running on a PGX64
>> board, but that required use of /dev/xsvc, which we'd prefer to avoid
>> if possible).
>>
>
> You do not need /dev/xsvc.
> Why not aperture ?
I actually meant the aperture driver where I wrote /dev/xsvc, but the problem
is the same with both - they both have the same property of allowing access to
all devices on the PCI bus, not just the video cards, and as such the
security guys are pushing us pretty hard to allow less of that, not expand
it to SPARC as well. Since we already have per-device fb drivers on SPARC,
they'd really rather we use them instead.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
