No DRM kernel support for i830 ?

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:20:11PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:07 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Judging from /sys/dev/drm/ contents, and listed kernel options in NOTES,
> > there's currently evidence of support for i810/830 chips in FreeBSD,
> > which (I suspect) is the probable reason why DRI is not enabled on my
> > box (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from yesterday, latest X.Org).  I also found
> > traces of i810/830 support in FDo CVS
> > (http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dri/drm/bsd/i830/),
> > getting me to the fact that i8x0 files were removed from the BSD side,
> > since they were not actually ported.  (Unfinished? broken? unstable?)
> 
> The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head 
> because of a security problem with the code.

Thanks.  That's a good info to start with.  May I ask you the details of
security problem you've mentioned, or at least some pointer in this
direction?  Appropriate maillist and/or google reference would be fine,
I guess.

./danfe