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authorMatthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-17 21:10:32 +0000
committerMatthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-17 21:10:32 +0000
commit06dfc172b936c807d2bd242ca4fd24125ba151bd (patch)
tree6f7010c76cc1531b47fc4a79d56d775bb90ab39a /share
parent40a4efcd8b7e1f72d00055809e7694003a84a876 (diff)
Add a new possible value for the machdep.allowaperture sysctl: `2'
allows access to the whole 1st megabyte of memory, for use by XFree86 4.0.x int10 code. (ok, deraadt@) CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sys/arch/i386/i386/mem.c share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4 CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.421
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4
index 0e38a7924c3..77d8eab6d2c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: xf86.4,v 1.11 2000/11/10 20:02:18 todd Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: xf86.4,v 1.12 2000/12/17 21:10:31 matthieu Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Matthieu Herrb
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -47,11 +47,28 @@ Access to the
.Pa /dev/xf86
device is allowed when the sysctl variable
.Va machdep.allowaperture
-= 1.
+>= 1.
This variable (which default value is 0)
can only be manipulated when the security level is <= 0, so it should be
set in
.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf .
+The possible values for
+.Va machdep.allowaperture
+are:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It 0
+the aperture driver is disabled. Opening it returns
+.Dv EPERM.
+.It 1
+the aperture driver allows access to standard VGA framebuffer and
+BIOS.
+.It 2
+the aperture driver allow access to the whole 1st megabyte of physical
+memory, for the use of the int10 emulation in XFree86 4.0.x.
+Note that this can cause some security problems, since the process that has
+access to the aperture driver can also access part of the kernel
+memory.
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr XF86_Accel 1 ,
.Xr XF86_SVGA 1 ,