Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
If it is a security options which has a serious impact on user laptop or desktop machines. We are saying that most probably default instal without a kernel rebuild is without X for many users of cards with legacy drivers. On a laptop I have less security concerns than on a server and run dangerous applications like X11 and a browser like firefox!Quoting:>If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all >io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that range. >Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access >can be used by people debugging kernel drivers.Allowing this configuration in the default kernel sounds like a very bad idea and I don't think Debian's kernel maintainers will agree to change this setting. I'm afraid you will have to keep building your kernel from source.
Can it be kept on on PPC 32bit only? Especially since we know it has a larger legacy hardware base than others. Probably on 64bit nobody has such video cards, I imagine I am not the only one running Xorg legacy.
Compiling a kernel is not really difficult but quite time consuming.I still think a bug should be opened thus - where should I do it, now that we aren't a release arch anymore?
Riccardo