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Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem |
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:43:46 +0100 |
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olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Fri 12 Mar 2010 00:32:44 +0100, a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:35:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Using the iopl device is a bit of a hack, a more proper solution needs
> > to be done.
>
> I don't consider it a hack. What would be a more "proper" solution in
> your opinion?...
You need to dig back the discussions on IRC or the list (can't
remember), but things like proper memory attribution: avoid letting two
processes access the same area, possible delegation, etc. In a word:
translators :)
> Of course, one day hopefully we will have a lovely PCI bus server, which
> allows clients to map individual regions according to the device
> configuration...
Which would be such kind of delegation and translators.
> But that will still need a method for obtaining a
> memory object for the physical address space from the kernel.
Right.
> > Maybe in the meanwhile we should alias mem and iopl in the gnumach
> > kernel, so already installed hurds can run Xorg (and the name "iopl"
> > doesn't sound so good to me to replace mem :)).
>
> Yeah, I actually mentioned on IRC that probably the best fix is renaming
> the kernel device...
And break existing code that uses it?
Samuel
- Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, Jérémie Koenig, 2010/03/11
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, olafBuddenhagen, 2010/03/11
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, Samuel Thibault, 2010/03/11
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, olafBuddenhagen, 2010/03/11
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem,
Samuel Thibault <=
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, olafBuddenhagen, 2010/03/12
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, Samuel Thibault, 2010/03/14
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, olafBuddenhagen, 2010/03/18
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, Samuel Thibault, 2010/03/18
- Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, olafBuddenhagen, 2010/03/19
Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, Samuel Thibault, 2010/03/19
Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, 2010/03/19