Re: Using wsdisplay from the Xserver

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> No, not "support [the] hardware".  I'm not proposing to mvoe the X
>> server into the kernel.  Just support _access to_ the hardware.
> From the perspective of INSECURE, though, the effect is the same,
> since part of what you're providing access to is the video hardware's
> various and sundry DMA engines

Oh, ugh.  Yes, that needs to be in the kernel.

Most of what Michael did looks fine, yes.  It's things like the
PCI_IOC_CFGREAD he mentioned and the "probably shouldn't allow mapping
PCI resources" that seem to be to be saying the X server still knows
about PCI directly that prompted my reaction.

At least we're moving in the right direction. :-/

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