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

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:13:05 +0100
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

At least I'm not the only one who missed the 'on x86' above ;)

We can go back to PCI-access-via-wsdisplay with relatively little pain
though.

have fun
Michael