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
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