Graphics Driver Frameworks and Security

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Alan Cox wrote:

> I think you need to look at the X code not random peoples rants. X.org
> does not require direct access to hardware, that's just the way some of
> the drivers have been written.  Its really up to the driver author and
> the kernel folks how they decide to implement it and the X.org tree
> contains examples of both methods.

Will Xorg provide a list of the drivers that do not require direct access 
to hardware?

(Maybe wfsb for OpenBSD and NetBSD? fbdev for Linux?) 

And can someone provide (or point to) examples and documentation for 
implementing without direct access to hardware?

It would be nice to be able to say: "use driver/xf86-video-foobar ... it 
has limited features but does not require direct access to hardware".


 Jeremy C. Reed