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Re: console security (was Re: problem wi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Shutko)
Thu Oct 12 14:59:10 1995
To: Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
cc: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o), RDMiller@legislate.com, kjh@seas.smu.edu,
owner-linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu,
linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:02:41 EDT."
<199510111502.LAA03411@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 22:26:12 -0500
From: Alan Shutko <ats@hurd193.wustl.edu>
>>>>> "Zygo" == Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
Zygo> A neat side-benefit of having SAK blow away XFree86 with extreme
Zygo> prejudice is that when you exit X window sessions you don't
Quick question: I have set up SAK after hearing this discussion.
However, it doesn't work on X or SVGA apps like executor-svga. Any
ideas?
Zygo> On most hardware putting more functionality in the kernel would
Zygo> be the most elegant thing to do; however, with an Intel-based
Zygo> platform with N+1 video cards available, the kernel will only
Zygo> ever have as many as N video drivers...
That's a clear case for defining a solid video card interface for the
kernel and writing lots of kernel modules for specific cards. SVGAlib
and XFree86 both have to do lots of work to support lots of cards; by
making them kernel modules we could drastically reduce it. Do the
work once rather than twice.
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