HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:00:44AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 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.

I see, sorry for the noise.

-- 
Yar