NOTICE: This package has been removed from pkgsrc

Does not support DESTDIR; will be removed after 2013Q4
./sysutils/aperture, XFree86 Framebuffer aperture driver for NetBSD/i386

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.0nb7, Package name: aperture-2.0nb7, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

This module was originally written to help work around the security
feature of NetBSD that prevents read/write access to /dev/mem. It also
provide Pentium II and AMD K6 MTRR control in order to control
write-combining to the framebuffer memory.

XFree86 can take advantage of having direct access to video
memory (especially with VLB and PCI cards) and even requires it for
the most recent PCI or AGP video boards.

This driver works like the standard /dev/mem driver. It just allows
mapping of the VGA framebuffer and BIOS even if kernel security level
is > 0. The driver only implements the open(), close(), ioctl() and
mmap() calls. In order not to defeat kernel security, only one open()
at a time is allowed and only a process with effective user id of 0 can
perform it. So while you're running XFree86, no other process will be
allowed to open /dev/xf86.


Required to run:
[pkgtools/osabi]

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   2013-12-31 18:08:11 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (171) | Package removed
Log message:
Remove packages that were either BROKEN for more than a year or
BROKEN and explicitly scheduled to be removed after 2013Q4.
   2013-10-24 12:31:02 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (13) 
Log message:
Mark remaining packages not support DESTDIR as BROKEN as decided
by pkgsrc-pmc.

If you are interested in one of these, please fix it before 2013Q4.
   2012-08-14 19:07:58 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (19) 
Log message:
Mark packages with no staged installation support explicitly \ 
(PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT=none).
   2011-03-19 02:36:20 by OBATA Akio | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
replace funny trick to avoid PKGREVISION in PKGNAME with PKGNAME_NOREV.
   2009-06-14 20:16:23 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (225) 
Log message:
Remove @dirrm entries from PLISTs
   2006-05-31 04:31:56 by Matthias Scheler | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Make this build and work under NetBSD 3.99.20 and newer.
Bump package revision because of this fix.
   2006-03-08 00:14:39 by Christos Zoulas | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
Don't give people a false sense of security.
   2006-03-04 22:31:14 by Johnny C. Lam | Files touched by this commit (2257) 
Log message:
Point MAINTAINER to pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org in the case where no
developer is officially maintaining the package.

The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to \ 
"pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list).  Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.