On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:15:07AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:06:57AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > > The legacy DRI1 drivers expose highly broken interfaces to user-space. No > > modern system should enable them, or you will effectively allow user-space > > to circumvent most of your kernel security measures. The DRI1 kernel APIs > > are simply broken. > > > > User-space can always use vesafb/efifb/simplefb and friends to get working > > graphics. > > > > Lets hide the old drivers behind CONFIG_BROKEN. In case they turn out to > > be still used (really?), we can easily revert this and figure out a way to > > move them out of sight (e.g., moving all DRI1 drivers to > > drivers/gpu/dri1/). > > > > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I'd rather have a couple of distro devs check if they are still using > any of these, and would value their a-b/r-b. Mesa stopped shipping dri1 drivers years ago, and neither Fedora and Debian here have that old version packaged (it should keep working since the dri loader is an ABI). I don't think anyone needs this, and if I'm wrong we'll hear about it ;-) Both applied to drm-misc. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
