Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 10:38:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: /dev/io Message-ID: <199512310939.KAA26011@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512310605.RAA16875@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Dec 31, 95 05:05:13 pm
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As David Dawes wrote: > > Another thing X needs is to mmap the video memory (which is usually done > by mmapping /dev/mem). That can't be done at securelevel >= 2 can it? This raises the old question that the cleanest way for the X server would be implementing all the hardware dependencies at driver level, instead in a user-land program (most likely to be done as an LKM). Nope, i don't see this will be done in the remaining hours/minutes of this year. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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