Re: Why is Device3Dfx driver (voodoo1/2) not in the kernel?

Alan Cox
2001-09-19T19:19:14Z

> Does anyone know why the Device3Dfx kernel driver is not in the standard
> kernel?

Because it lets anyone crash the machine by feeding a Voodoo1 garbage. To
get something like that into the kernel I suspect would involve

- Making sure glide is using the fifo
- Writing a parser for packet1-packet5 commands to verify they
are valid

then voodoo would be safe for user direct access.

Alan