First cut at 2.0 -> 3.0 port specific changes

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.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.14 2004/06/12 06:01:42 mbw Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.15 2005/06/09 21:51:37 martin Exp $
.
.Nx \*V
is the third major release for the \*M!
.Pp
Some (but not all!) notable \*M-specific improvements include:
features several \*M-specific bug fixes that greatly improve
the stability. Besides this, the most visible changes in this
new release are
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Support for a number of new models
Full grown framebuffer support for the most popular graphics hardware
found on supported machines
.Pp
These are cgsix, ffb/afb, and ATI based "vga" chipsets.
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Support for a native serial driver on non-SBUS machines
.Pq Em sab
Switched to wscons console framework
.Pp
This makes USB keyboards/mice fully usable. The above mentioned framebuffer
drivers also support virtual consoles with wscons - use L1/Stop-F1..Fn to
switch the console screen to another console-
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Support for the SBUS PCMCIA adapter
.Pq Em nell
has been completed.
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Support for SBUS based audio
.Pq Em audiocs
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New generic cycle counter based microtime implementation greatly improves
microtime(9) for \*M
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Get rid of all \*M-specific hacks, since the new GNU C/C++ compiler
now included with
.Nx
no longer has these problems
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The
.Xr ofwboot.net 8
and
.Xr ofwboot
programs have been merged
Switched to XFree86 based X servers
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This means full grown X support for all framebuffers mentioned above, including
acceleration.
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Compatibility to the old console framework is still available, as well as
the old Xsun X server.