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Date:      Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:25:05 -0200
From:      Felipe openglx <openglx@StarByte.net>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming
Message-ID:  <621b657f0511010925t578a5df7nd82040b71e104478@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43679F3C.4040702@samsco.org>
References:  <436116D3.908@samsco.org> <621b657f0510280654j56d4a823n5237f89ccc96b1e9@mail.gmail.com> <436246C1.3030108@samsco.org> <20051101165534.GB56709@comp.chem.msu.su> <43679F3C.4040702@samsco.org>

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In fact I agree with Scott. There isn't much the OS can do.

As for that bug, I'm already in contact with the X.org developers and
trying to do a deeper debugging on what's going on. The driver
developer himself said he cannot test that on FreeBSD, thus not
assuring it full functionality. So it looks much more to be a X.org
problem than FreeBSD one.

On 11/1/05, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > When a 3rd party package crashes our OS, we should care about the
> > issue, too.  However, this case seems to require more investigation
> > by developers who have similar hardware.
> >
>
> The fact that X has access to /dev/io means that it can do whatever it
> wants to corrupt the machine, and there isn't much the OS can do about
> it.
>
> Scott
>


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