On 05/17/2012 10:08 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:40 PM, "Tóth Attila" <at...@atoth.sote.hu> wrote:
>> How would I change the way /dev gets mounted? I don't have noexec as an
>> option listed by mount for the udev entry.
> 
> I mount devtmpfs on /dev in initramfs, but you can add an entry to
> /etc/fstab, too — see /etc/init.d/udev-mount for details (referring to
> OpenRC 0.9.8.4 here).
> 
>> In my policy file Xorg is permitted to execute /dev/mem: is that no longer
>> needed? I use the radeon driver, not the proprietary.
> 
> I didn't encounter any issues with radeon. Apparently, executing
> /dev/mem is not needed for any open-source Xorg drivers in portage
> tree. The only issue I have seen is that sometimes there is a /dev/mem
> *write* failure when FB_UVESA kernel module is loaded, but that is
> caused by GRKERNSEC_KMEM, not /dev noexec, and is apparently harmless
> (however, I use v86d[x86emu], so YMMV).
> 
Is there a bug open for this?

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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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