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RE: [Xen-devel] Is Xen affected by this x86 hardware security hole?
| To: | "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | RE: [Xen-devel] Is Xen affected by this x86 hardware security hole? |
| From: | "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 2 May 2006 14:54:55 +0100 |
| Cc: | Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Thread-topic: | [Xen-devel] Is Xen affected by this x86 hardware security hole? |
> A better solution would be to have a kernel module that > provides services to the X server, but this would require > more code per platform, which is partly why it wasn't done > like this... *sigh* Isn't this what the kernel /dev/fbdev driver does? If you're running an fbdev Xserver you shouldn't need to give the Xserver io or mmio permissions. Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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