Hi, I've started a discussion on fedora-devel about what to do with old-style userspace mode setting drivers when the suid root bit is removed from the X server binary:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/194123.html I started this discussion there because to me the decision to actually remove the suid root bit, and the implications of this wrt supported devices, etc. is mostly a distro decision. I assume we as upstream will keep supporting the suid root + ums way of working for a long time yet. One interesting remark made in the discussion thread I linked to is to simply drop support for ums all together (in Fedora) and ship uvesafb ported to be a kms driver for cards which don't have kms support yet. I think this is an interesting approach, so this leads me to the question how crazy would it be / how crazy a person would it take to do this. Specifically the resurrecting uvesafb and turning it into a kms driver part ? And related to this, assuming it is considered doable by a sufficiently motivated person, would it be worthwhile ? Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
