Soft dependencies removed

Removal of the soft dependencies feature of the fast file system (FFS) was today completed by Andrew Doran. It was announced in a mail and discussed several times at the NetBSD mailing lists.

Soft dependencies will continue to be available in NetBSD 5.0. From 6.0 onwards the preferred method of maintaining integrity and achieving optimal performance with fast file systems is logging (WAPBL).

The file system format is upwards compatible: existing systems will continue to operate with no configuration changes, and migration to logging will be a simple matter of changing /etc/fstab.

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LVM2 tools update

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

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

The i386-specific vesafb(4) framebuffer driver has been superseded by the generic genfb(4) driver.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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