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diff --git a/sgml/OpenBSD.sgml b/sgml/OpenBSD.sgml index 142ae16..58c3b92 100644 --- a/sgml/OpenBSD.sgml +++ b/sgml/OpenBSD.sgml @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ <title>README for XFree86 &relvers; on OpenBSD <author> Matthieu Herrb -<Date>Last modified on: 9 November 2002 +<Date>Last modified on: 9 December 2003 <ident> -$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/OpenBSD.sgml,v 1.30 2003/02/25 19:31:01 dawes Exp $ +$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/OpenBSD.sgml,v 1.32 2003/12/12 03:25:05 dawes Exp $ </ident> <toc> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The sources for XFree86 &relvers; are available by anonymous ftp from: <htmlurl name="ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/&relvers;" url="ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/&relvers;"> -Binaries for OpenBSD/i386 3.2 and later are available from: +Binaries for OpenBSD/i386 3.4 and later are available from: <htmlurl name="ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/&relvers;/binaries/OpenBSD" url="ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/&relvers;/binaries/OpenBSD"> @@ -50,15 +50,27 @@ XFree86 also builds on other OpenBSD architectures. See section <sect>Bug Reports for This Document <p> -Send email to <email>herrb@xfree86.org</email> (Matthieu Herrb) or -<email>XFree86@XFree86.org</email> if you have comments or suggestions about -this file and we'll revise it. +Use the XFree86 bugzilla at <url url="http://bugs.xfree86.org"> +to submit comments or suggestions about this file. <sect>New OS dependent features <p> See the <htmlurl url="RELNOTES.html" name="Release Notes"> for non-OS dependent new features in XFree86 &relvers;. +<sect1>New OS related features in 4.4 +<p> +<itemize> +<item>The IPv6 support is enabled on OpenBSD, but XDMCP over IPv6 is +not currently enabled since the code uses IPv6 mapped IPv4 addresses +which are not supported on OpenBSD. +<item>The userland part of DRI is enabled and built. Now waiting for +someone to port the kernel modules... +<item>All major revisions of the shared libraries are incremented on +OpenBSD 3.3 and later, to support the API changes introduced by +gcc stack protector. +</itemize> + <sect1>New OS related features in 4.3 <p> <itemize> @@ -225,18 +237,11 @@ line must be in your config file in <tt>/sys/arch/i386/conf</tt>: <sect1>Console drivers <p> -The server supports the standard OpenBSD/i386 -console drivers: pcvt and wscons. They are detected at runtime and no -configuration of the server itself is required. - -<p> -The pcvt console driver is the default in OpenBSD up to OpenBSD 2.8. -It offers several virtual consoles and international keyboard support. +The server supports wscons, the standard OpenBSD/i386 console driver. <p> -OpenBSD 2.9 and later has switched to the wscons console -driver. This console driver has a pcvt compatibility mode for X -support. +The pcvt console driver which was the default up to OpenBSD +2.8, is also supported on those releases. <sect1>Aperture Driver <p> @@ -245,7 +250,7 @@ feature that disables access to the <tt>/dev/mem</tt> device when in multi-user mode. But the XFree86 server requires linear access to the display memory in most cases. -OpenBSD now requires the aperture driver to be enabled for all X +OpenBSD requires the aperture driver to be enabled for all X servers, because the aperture driver also controls access to the I/O ports of the video boards. <p> |