On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:28 +0000, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:07 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > > > After think a little and put dri working with kernel 2.4. > > > The only solution, that I see, to not private users of savage with > > > kernel 2.4, have dri. Is do 2 directory on Xorg tree, one with the code > > > before 2005-01-01 and other for kernel 2.6 > > > > Not really a good idea, the old code was not releaseable or secure, 2.4 is > > a fixes only tree, why do people want new drivers for it? if you are > > running production machines on it you won't want a dodgy DRM driver on > > it... > > > > you can always use CVS to checkout the old code... > > > > Dave. > > Ok I accept that, about releaseable and dodgy DRM drive, I agree. > > but just a tough, about security, nowadays it common say, errors are > security problems, I don't see how could drm be insecure. >
DRM can be insecure because some hardware supports things like blitting any chunk of system memory from anywhere to anywhere. So you can't just let apps do anything, you have to verify the command stream somehow. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
