Render only DRM devices

Simon Ser contact at emersion.fr
Wed Oct 12 07:25:32 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 08:18, Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:

> DRM auth based authentication is seen as a security risk and we want to
> get rid of that for render only devices (at least for the new ones).

Right, that makes sense for new hw/drivers. So we really need this to
be opt-in, we can't just do it for all existing render-only drivers
without breaking the kernel no-regression rule.

> I should probably add a wider explanation to the commit message.

Good idea!


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