[forum] XFree86 5.0 TODO

[Alan Cox]

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > 4. DGA - do we leave in, or do we shelve it ?
> > 
> 
>    It's a security hole.  It's a difficult corner case to
> solve in the driver and therefore is frequently broken.
> And most uses of DGA I've seen are misuses which do not use
> DGA in the manner that it was intended.

Bits of it are needed for video overlay on hardware without
Xv. That doesn't mean it should live only that the facility
used for overlay matters. I'd actually prefer to have the
X server setting the card up even for that.