[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/3] egl/x11_dri3: disable WL_bind_wayland_display for devices without render nodes

[Michel Dänzer]

On 18.06.2016 02:41, Frank Binns wrote:
> Up until now, DRI3 was only used for devices that have render nodes, unless
> overridden via an environment variable, with it falling back to DRI2 otherwise.
> This limitation was there in order to support WL_bind_wayland_display as it
> requires client opened device node fds to be authenticated, which isn't possible
> when using DRI3. This is an unfortunate compromise as DRI3 provides security
> benefits over DRI2.

What exactly is it that works with render nodes but not with
unauthenticated non-render nodes? Isn't that a kernel bug?


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