Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 17:15:10 EST


Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 17:12 -0400, Lee Revell a écrit :
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 22:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Precisely. How do you know the bugreport you received isn't caused by
> > some weird binary userspace driver hosing the PCI bus ?
>
> Can't X, or any application that access hardware directly by
> mmaping /dev/mem, do this now?

Yes they can, but X's behavior is pretty well known by now :) and it's
open source.

Xav

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