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Date:      Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:00:44 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        openglx@starbyte.net, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming
Message-ID:  <43679F3C.4040702@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051101165534.GB56709@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <436116D3.908@samsco.org> <621b657f0510280654j56d4a823n5237f89ccc96b1e9@mail.gmail.com> <436246C1.3030108@samsco.org> <20051101165534.GB56709@comp.chem.msu.su>

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Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:41:53AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>Felipe openglx wrote:
>>
>>>I had a few issues with SiS 630 video driver, already related in
>>>thread 
>>>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=815881+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-current/20051016.freebsd-current
>>>
>>>Are those corrected already? I did compile the latest kernel (after a
>>>cvsup on src-sys*) and X.org still reboots my machine if I enable the
>>>SiS driver.
>>
>>You'll need to work with the X11 developers.  X is only something that
>>FreeBSD includes as a 3rd party package, it's not something that we
>>work on as part of the OS.
> 
> 
> When a 3rd party package crashes our OS, we should care about the
> issue, too.  However, this case seems to require more investigation
> by developers who have similar hardware.
> 

The fact that X has access to /dev/io means that it can do whatever it
wants to corrupt the machine, and there isn't much the OS can do about
it.

Scott



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