On 3 September 2018 at 17:54, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > -Hide legacy cruft better > ------------------------- > - > -Way back DRM supported only drivers which shadow-attached to PCI devices with > -userspace or fbdev drivers setting up outputs. Modern DRM drivers take charge > -of the entire device, you can spot them with the DRIVER_MODESET flag. > - > -Unfortunately there's still large piles of legacy code around which needs to > -be hidden so that driver writers don't accidentally end up using it. And to > -prevent security issues in those legacy IOCTLs from being exploited on modern > -drivers. This has multiple possible subtasks: > - > -* Extract support code for legacy features into a ``drm-legacy.ko`` kernel > - module and compile it only when one of the legacy drivers is enabled. > - This isn't done, > -This is mostly done, the only thing left is to split up ``drm_irq.c`` into > -legacy cruft and the parts needed by modern KMS drivers. > - ... while this one is. HTH -Emil _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
