Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:

> Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > 4. DGA - do we leave in, or do we shelve it ?
> > 
> >    Kill it!  Kill it!
> > 
> >    It's a security hole.  It's a difficult corner case to solve in
> > the driver and therefore is frequently broken. And most uses of DGA
> > I've seen are misuses which do not use DGA in the manner that it
> > was intended. 
> 
> If you kill it, make sure you replace it with something that will provide 
> equivalent functionality. Games and applications that wish to use 
> fullscreen graphics under X11 can utilise DGA today, but if you kill it, 
> you lose that ability. DGA is the closest thing that XFree86 has to 
> DirectX, but it could be *way* better.

    The problem IS the functionality.  That functionality is unsafe
and should go away.  There aren't many apps that use DGA in a legitimate
way, and those that do should be seeking alternatives.  


			Mark.