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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 .Nx \*V
is the third major release for the \*M! features several \*M-specific bug fixes that greatly improve
.Pp the stability. Besides this, the most visible changes in this
Some (but not all!) notable \*M-specific improvements include: new release are
.(bullet .(bullet
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.
.It .It
Support for a native serial driver on non-SBUS machines Switched to wscons console framework
.Pq Em sab .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-
.It .It
Support for the SBUS PCMCIA adapter Switched to XFree86 based X servers
.Pq Em nell .Pp
has been completed. This means full grown X support for all framebuffers mentioned above, including
.It acceleration.
Support for SBUS based audio
.Pq Em audiocs
.It
New generic cycle counter based microtime implementation greatly improves
microtime(9) for \*M
.It
Get rid of all \*M-specific hacks, since the new GNU C/C++ compiler
now included with
.Nx
no longer has these problems
.It
The
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and
.Xr ofwboot
programs have been merged
.bullet) .bullet)
Compatibility to the old console framework is still available, as well as
the old Xsun X server.