Paul Durrant writes: > Xiu-Yan Wang wrote: > > > > Still internal and cannot be given to customers at this time. There is a > > push to open source it. The only issue is it gives customers powers to > > completely break their systems and is completely unservercible. > > > > There are many ways for a root user to completely break their system. > Denying access to PCI config. space does not make a system any less > liable to being trashed; OTOH it does annoy a lot of developers (who are > used to lspci on Linux).
At least some hardware vendors have tools which depend on PCI config space access which simply cannot work on Solaris/sparc without this. Drew _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
