Re: Removing the root priv requirement from DRM

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

On Sad, 2005-06-18 at 20:22, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Then this is a card by card problem. If user space needs to get to the
> registers, and we can't split the safe registers from the unsafe
> (security issues) ones, then the user space drivers also needs to run
> as root.

Incorrect. See the via driver. The maps are just a useful performance
trick for some cards.