Bug#336220: xdm: bogus /dev/mem access lead to trouble on arm platforms

2007-09-17 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 08:55:49AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: On arm platforms where physical RAM doesn't start at physical address zero, opening /dev/mem and reading from it causes a kernel oops. This is arguably a kernel bug, but it's still not a very good idea to just start

Bug#367188: xorg: Please add big-endian arm (armeb) support

2006-05-14 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
Package: xorg Version: 7.0.17 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The attached patch adds support for the big-endian arm (armeb) architecture to xorg 7.0.17 by copying vars.arm to vars.armeb. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: armeb (armv5teb) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc2 Locale:

Bug#336220: xdm: bogus /dev/mem access lead to trouble on arm platforms

2005-10-28 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
Package: xdm Severity: important On arm platforms where physical RAM doesn't start at physical address zero, opening /dev/mem and reading from it causes a kernel oops. This is arguably a kernel bug, but it's still not a very good idea to just start randomly poking around in /dev/mem in search of