LVM2 tools update
February 23, 2009 posted by Adam Hamsik
LVM2 tools and libdevmapper library in the base system have been updated to version 2.02.44 for lvm2 tools and 1.02.31 for libdevmapper lib. LVM2 tools are part of NetBSD logical volume management subsystem.
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X.org on NetBSD/sgimips
February 20, 2009 posted by Michael Lorenz
X.org support for NetBSD/sgimips has gone live with the addition of hardware accelerated drivers for Newport ( found in most Indys, ported from official X.org ) and CRIME ( found in all O2s, driver written by myself ). Both drivers support the usual XAA acceleration primitives including solid fills, screen-to-screen copies, colour expansion and compositing.
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Heads up: x86 framebuffer console changes
February 20, 2009 posted by Jared McNeill
The i386-specific vesafb(4) framebuffer driver has been superseded by the generic genfb(4) driver. Due to this change, framebuffer console support is now available on amd64 as well as i386.
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