Re: Xorg vs Wayland (and MIR?) - future for NetBSD X ?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 07:04:20PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Likewise DRM/KMS.  We should disable options INSECURE by default on
> x86 and make Xorg not be suid root.  Obscure systems that still need
> it -- e.g., VIA, perhaps, which has no KMS driver -- can use custom
> kernel configs.

Unfortunately it is not that simple. We recently noticed that Xorg on
sparc64 for PCI cards now needs INSECURE, despite proper framebuffer
drivers.

Martin