[RFC] non-root X

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Jul 2 11:01:39 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:50:03 +0300
Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:01:40PM +0200, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> >   - a new KMS bus type might be a good idea, allowing KMS aware
> > drivers to be probed early
> 
> Humm... looks interesting. What would be the whole idea here?

The idea here is that KMS drivers could be probed first, w/o root
perms.  If they claimed all the available devices, we wouldn't need to
do subsequent driver probing that might need root.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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