[please note that I changed the Cc to port-i386 --matthieu]

You wrote (in your message from Sun 23)
 > 
 > Let me suggest a solution to the apeture problem that I use.  I think
 > the kernel proper should be secure and should let you map the space
 > that SVGA accelerated drivers use.  I add the following case to
 > sys/arch/i386/i386/mem.c: mmmmap(dev, off, prot)

The main idea of the aperture driver as a LKM was to have something
that doesn't require building a new kernel to run X. 


					Matthieu