Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO
Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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> This is only a legitimate usage when in DGA mode. Many of the > players I've seen use DGA to get the framebuffer address and then > use that outside of the relatively safe full-screen mode to render > to the root window, which is not safe at all. Its superior to the alternative of not doing it at all. Incidentally part of the problem here is that we have no "fallback" Xv for such cases which does DMA direct to the display and locking. Its also at least as safe as DRI on most x86 processors