Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:39:08 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Cc: andrew@whine.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A few questions Message-ID: <199510101939.MAA01391@freefall.freebsd.org>
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It be nice if you could still run X while in secure mode 1 (or perhaps we should add an extra secure level so you could do this?) without having all of /dev/mem R/W. XFree86 is atypical in that most workstation vendors provide fb support inside the kernel for their X servers, hence there's no need for kludges like mmapping /dev/mem (instead you get os specific kludges like opening /dev/fb and doing kludgy ioctls on the fb device). Ditto for input devices like mice and keyboard. Given the number of devices and operating systems XFree86 supports, I'm not sure putting everything below user level is practical.
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