[RFC] non-root X

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Fri Jul 3 00:45:08 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 09:02 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> Perhaps a seperate call is needed to map
> legacy VGA I/O space; this should probably tie in with the (mythical?)
> VGA arbiter that has been talked about.

All of this belongs in the kernel, so suggestions about how to polish
the user-mode code should instead focus on whether existing kernel APIs
are sufficient as the device access portion of drivers is moved out of
user space.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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