From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 31 01:54:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA16771 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 01:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA16751 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 01:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA08189 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 10:53:48 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA12739 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 10:53:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA26011 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 10:39:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512310939.KAA26011@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /dev/io To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 10:38:58 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512310605.RAA16875@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Dec 31, 95 05:05:13 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)