Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
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.
If it is a security options which has a serious impact on user laptop or
desktop machines. We are saying that most probably default instal
without a kernel rebuild is without X for many users of cards with
legacy drivers.
On a laptop I have less security concerns than on a server and run
dangerous applications like X11 and a browser like firefox!
Can it be kept on on PPC 32bit only? Especially since we know it has a
larger legacy hardware base than others. Probably on 64bit nobody has
such video cards, I imagine I am not the only one running Xorg legacy.
Compiling a kernel is not really difficult but quite time consuming.
I still think a bug should be opened thus - where should I do it, now
that we aren't a release arch anymore?
Riccardo
