Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[Olivier Galibert]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:23:08AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> And all the other OS'es that use Xorg on a non-Linux kernel can go
> jump in a lake?   Xorg runs on lots of hardware on lots of kernels
> today - how many would it run on if all the drivers had to be kernel
> specific?   (And lots of kernels applies to the many versions of Linux
> too.  Xorg runs on top of many different versions of the Linux kernel
> without having to worry about the in-kernel interface changes between
> them.)

Does DRI/DRM exist in your part of the world?

I've never understood how one could consider having a driver that does
pci device discovery, remapping, irqs, DMA and other funnies fully in
userspace in any way sane.

  OG.