Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

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?...

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... But that will still need a method for obtaining a
memory object for the physical address space from the kernel.

> 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...

-antrik-