Hi Riccardo! On 03/24/2017 10:30 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I used the debian supplied config except the IO strict devmem setting. > It took almost 2 days to build on the iBook using a SSD! :) > > X11 now works, so this is the proof. > Furthermore the description says that the setting is incompatible with with > legacy Xorg, which is the one I am using.
Yes, indeed. Thanks for verifying this. Glad to hear you figured out how to get X.Org working on your machine again. > Adrian, can you open the bug or should I, where ? That's actually a difficult question. Looking at what the option does, it's actually a security feature [1] and disabling it would take away security for a lot of users. 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. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
