Excerpts from internet.computing.linux-kernel: 7-May-2000 RE: Future
Linux devel. Ke.. by "Ron Van Dam"@liwave.com
> if you want to run X with DRI you would have to compile them. Why would you
> need to disallow /dev/kmem and ioports to support this feature?
Because the module signature has to be stored somewhere in the kernel.
With /dev/kmem there's no way to hide it. The alternative is a public
key encryption system, but that seems like a lot of work and code in the
kernel for something that won't really be all that helpful.
- Jim Bruce
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun May 07 2000 - 21:00:21 EST