Subject: Re: Integrate aperture driver?
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jarom=EDr_Dolecek?= <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/12/2001 18:20:45
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:12:44AM +0200, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:
> Hi,
> would there be any problem in integrating the aperture driver and MTRR code
> to kernel tree (i.e what is now available as /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/aperture/) ?
> Virtually anyone running XFree86 4.* would like this ...
This "driver" essentially negates the security model. If it's going to be
committed, it should function *only* if securelevel < 1. It should also
be made possible to build it into a monolithic kernel, instead of only as
a loadable module.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
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foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
William Styron