From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 17:01:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F171816A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:01:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1317D43D49 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:01:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.201] ([192.168.254.201]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA1H0fxM003404; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:00:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <43679F3C.4040702@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:00:44 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050321 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yar Tikhiy References: <436116D3.908@samsco.org> <621b657f0510280654j56d4a823n5237f89ccc96b1e9@mail.gmail.com> <436246C1.3030108@samsco.org> <20051101165534.GB56709@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20051101165534.GB56709@comp.chem.msu.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: openglx@starbyte.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:01:03 -0000 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