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3. New OS dependent features
See the Release Notes for
non-OS dependent new features in X11R6.7.0.
3.1. New OS related features
- 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.
- The userland part of DRI is enabled and built. Now waiting for
someone to port the kernel modules...
- 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.
3.2. New OS related features in 4.3
- Support for some VGA cards on OpenBSD/alpha
3.3. New OS dependent features in 4.2
- Support for OpenBSD/macppc on the ATI Rage128 based
Power Macintoshes.
- Support for building clients on OpenBSD/sparc64.
3.4. New OS dependent features in 4.0.3
- Support for the wscons console driver in post 2.8 OpenBSD.
- A fix for multi-threaded libraries support.
3.5. New OS dependent features in 4.0.2
- Support for the OpenBSD ports tree,
- Preliminary support for the macppc architecture (clients build
and work, the server doesn't work yet),
- xdm now writes an utmp entry,
- startx now creates an Xauthority magic cookie for the display.
3.6. New OS dependent features in 4.0.1
- Several features from the OpenBSD X11 tree were merged into xdm:
- support for Kerberos IV authentication
- use the arc4random(4) random number generator
- add a new resource "allowRootLogin", which can be used to disable
root logins through xdm
- log failed logins to syslogd
- verify that the shell is valid using /etc/shell
- verify that the account hasn't expired
- The Xsun server can be built again on OpenBSD/sparc.
3.7. New OS dependent features in 4.0
- Multi-thread safe libraries are built by default on OpenBSD 2.6
and later,
- Preliminary APM support.
3.8. New OS dependent features in 3.9.18
- Support for USB mices has been added on OpenBSD.
- Soft-booting secondary cards through the int10 BIOS interface is
now possible using the x86emu real mode emulator.
3.9. New OS dependent features in 3.9.17
- Silken mouse is supported for serial mices, and, under
post 2.6 OpenBSD-current for PS/2 mices.
- MTRR Write Combining is enabled under post 2.6 OpenBSD-current.
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