Subject: Re: FreeBSD X server on NetBSD?
To: None <matthieu@laas.fr>
From: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/28/1997 13:23:14
>  > what would prevent a FreeBSD X server (from Xi Graphics, for a
>  > NeoMagic graphics chip) from running under NetBSD's FreeBSD
>  > emulation, if anything?  (No, I've not tried it...yet.)
>
> Probably the secure level and/or the i386iopl() system call:
> [...]
> The i386_iopl() syscall to get access to the IO ports is more
> problematic. I don't think the FreeBSD emulation enables the
> KDENAIO ioctl used by syscons.

Hmm, does anyone have any idea how difficult this problem would
be to fix?  (The thing about security level isn't an issue for me
personally, as my kernels run with the INSECURE option anyway...)

- H=E5vard