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Message-ID: <20110425155821.GC3735@albatros>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:58:21 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GSoC: overview of grsecurity and -ow patches
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 22:50 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Basically, with KMS, X server does not need any additional privileges.
Yes, except to be able to open some files in /dev/*.
> But in 2.6.32 kernel graphics support is too limited still to
> be useful for real X usage - for modern cards anyway.
In Ubuntu 2.6.32 there is a backported version of nouveau from 2.6.33
kernel. Maybe something similar we have in RHEL6, I didn't check.
Intel support should be since ~ 2.6.29. Don't know about ATI, maybe it
is indeed too limited form Xorg.
Thanks,
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
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