[haiku-development] Re: Is the "poke" driver supposed to be private?
- From: Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:34:28 +0100
François Revol schrieb:
I guess there will be no easy way to directly do hardware accesses
anymore,
and that any application which requires this will need to install its
own driver(s), correct?
Well, we'll probably have to use it to implement the pseudo-standard
linux io funcs or some other. For now it's not a problem but later
those shall be restricted to root only at least.
Yes, that would be good. The easy hardware access in BeOS really was a gaping
security hole.
Anyway, "applications" should never access hardware directly, that's
what drivers are for. The only acceptable reason would be driver
prototyping.
Well, I used the low-level access with DeskbarSensor and was in a continuous
driver prototyping phase, trying to support hardware monitoring chips I'd never
run on. Cheap solution, but it worked... but I'm kinda glad that I have to
rewrite this in a better way for Haiku.
btw, please fix your MUA to wrap lines.
Thanks for the hint, done.
Christian
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