[poky] [PATCH 4/6] genericx86: disable rootless X

[Burton, Ross]

On 29 July 2013 08:29, Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com> wrote:
> On 25/07/2013 17:38, Ross Burton wrote:
>> Not all video drivers support rootless X and this BSP aims to have broader
>> support than atom-pc.
>
> Which drivers do you have in mind here? AFAICT this patch set / BSP only
> supports the i9x5 family of drivers out of the box, where this is not an
> issue. In this day and age rootless X should be the norm, not the
> exception, so I think it would be preferable to document the need to
> disable rootless X with any such substandard drivers rather than have a
> suboptimal lowest common denominator for the generic x86 machine.

In X is supports Intel gen hardware directly, and anything that it has
framebuffer or modesetting kernel drivers for (so anything with a
plain vesa framebuffer *should* work).

There's also a big difference between running X as root and the
session as root.  I've been meaning for a long time to implement that
split in the session scripts so that we're not by default running Sato
as root, just the X server.

Ross