HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

[Scott Long]

Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:41:53AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>Felipe openglx wrote:
>>
>>>I had a few issues with SiS 630 video driver, already related in
>>>thread 
>>>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=815881+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-current/20051016.freebsd-current
>>>
>>>Are those corrected already? I did compile the latest kernel (after a
>>>cvsup on src-sys*) and X.org still reboots my machine if I enable the
>>>SiS driver.
>>
>>You'll need to work with the X11 developers.  X is only something that
>>FreeBSD includes as a 3rd party package, it's not something that we
>>work on as part of the OS.
> 
> 
> When a 3rd party package crashes our OS, we should care about the
> issue, too.  However, this case seems to require more investigation
> by developers who have similar hardware.
> 

The fact that X has access to /dev/io means that it can do whatever it
wants to corrupt the machine, and there isn't much the OS can do about
it.

Scott