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To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened & ati-drivers
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:01:36
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In Reply to: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened & ati-drivers by Alex Efros
1 On 3 Jun 2005 at 19:41, Alex Efros wrote:
2 > Because I think this issue is well-know. Here is a quote from
3 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedxorg.xml :
4 >
5 > Binary Drivers
6 >
7 > This is a known issue that can only be resolved by upstream vendors.
8 > Most notably, neither the binary Nvidia nor ATI drivers work currently
9 > with the dlloader.
10
11 ok, so the 'details' i was asking for is the dlloader and the
12 .so drivers (or lack thereof, rather)? in that case you could
13 try linking the binary .o driver into a .so and see if it works.
14 something like 'ld -shared driver.o -o driver.so'. if that
15 complains about missing symbols, you will have to add -lxxx to
16 the ld command line until all symbols are resolved (xxx is a
17 library that provides the missing symbols, most likely some
18 other xorg driver, nm/readelf can help in tracking them down).
19 note that even if you get a working driver this way, it will
20 most likely have textrelocs (from past experience at least,
21 maybe these days vendors have more clue and compile their code
22 as PIC).
23
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