I'm glad to hear that one of the core X server maintainer is saying that it is not going "completely" away. Also that he is adding an xorg.conf option to enable IGLX. Great news! We can rest easier. I could not for the life of me understand how this could be removed, but that was the information I got. I'm glad to be wrong. I want to just reiterate how important a feature IGLX is. Regarding the exploitable bugs, can anyone mention or point to a couple? Thanks -- Rich
> On May 27, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > You do know that Adam is one of the core X server maintainers, right? > If he says you're wrong, then I believe him and you should too. (Though > the mail he points to says you're only half wrong - yes it is disabled by > default today, but no, we've not announced any plans to make it completely > go away.) > > -alan- > > On 05/26/16 04:43 PM, Cook, Rich wrote: >> The point here is that today it is being *disabled* and in the future it is >> completely *going away.* Anyone care to argue with that? I'd love to be >> wrong about it. >> >>> On May 26, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Adam Jackson <a...@nwnk.net> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 09:14 +0200, Laurent Lamalle wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have just discovered, through the x11-us...@lists.apple.com mailing >>>> list, that Xorg deprecated some software component (IGLX?) necessary for >>>> remote OpenGL viewing. >>> >>> As I just said: >>> >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-May/058072.html >>> >>> Another awkward thing about this, I suppose, is that on OSX the X server >>> is started implicitly on demand and there's no reasonable way to configure >>> things like command line options. And, that there's no direct rendering >>> support to be had on OSX. So we could probably reasonably change those >>> defaults for that platform, since the opportunity for privilege escalation >>> is lower as X11.app runs unprivileged. >>> >>> - ajax >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support >>> Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg >>> Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg >>> Your subscription address: %(user_address)s >> > -- ✐Richard Cook ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 --- Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
