Re: Xorg on Blade 150

Out of curiosity, is there someplace this stuff gets documented?  Or do we
just have to troll the listserv?

G

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Jerome Ibanes <[email protected]> wrote:

> The "INSECURE" workaround works well; of course, a better solution
> should be in place.
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> Jerome
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> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:21:23 +0200
> > Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 02:00:37PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> >> > it kind of sucks that we have to turn INSECURE on just for X,
> >> > maybe we can have a GENERIC_GRAPHICS that does?  i won't object
> >> > whatever you choose.
> >>
> >> I'd prefer anything that gets it working w/o INSECURE again - but then
> I don't
> >> know how far we will get with that if we move forward with DRM/KMS.
> >
> > We'd need better control on what can/can't be mapped through /dev/pci*.
> > We could also go back to going through /dev/tty[E|F|G|H|...] now that
> > they are actually being created. That would require a driver attaching
> > to each graphics device though. Problem with that - on most graphics
> > chips I've seen the DMA stuff we'd want to restrict isn't sufficiently
> > separated from, say, the drawing engine registers ( as in, on a
> > different page ).
> >
> > On SBus that's easier - we already go through /dev/fb*, we've got
> > kernel drivers for nearly everything, and most supported cards don't
> > really do DMA.
> >
> > have fun
> > Michael
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