aperture driver for alpha. It works here the same as on i386

to allow access to VGA card's memory by mmapping /dev/xf86.
The macdep.allowaperture does also control /dev/pci access.
Ok miod@, deraadt@

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4
index dbab8275458..33f20dddcf3 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/options.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/options.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.106 2002/07/12 21:44:48 mickey Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.107 2002/08/24 17:21:44 matthieu Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt
@@ -544,9 +544,16 @@ Makes the boot process more verbose for PCMCIA peripherals.
 .It Cd option MACOBIOVERBOSE
 Makes the boot process more verbose for Mac OBIO peripherals.
 .It Cd option APERTURE
-Provide in-kernel support for VGA framebuffer mapping by user-processes
-(such as an X windows server).
-This option is supported in the i386 architecture.
+Provide in-kernel support for controlling VGA framebuffer mapping 
+and PCI configuration registers by user-processes
+(such as an X Window System server).
+This option is supported on the 
+.Va alpha Ns ,
+.Va i386 Ns ,
+.Va macppc 
+and
+.Va sparc64 
+architectures.
 .It Cd option LKM
 Enables support for loadable kernel modules.
 See
diff --git a/share/man/man4/xf86.4 b/share/man/man4/xf86.4
index 61d9a857a49..cbaf3ef4c45 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/xf86.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/xf86.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: xf86.4,v 1.3 2002/03/27 15:21:22 jason Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: xf86.4,v 1.4 2002/08/24 17:21:44 matthieu Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Matthieu Herrb
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -35,14 +35,16 @@
 .Cd "option APERTURE"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 On
+.Va alpha Ns ,
 .Va i386 Ns ,
-.Va macppc Ns ,
+.Va macppc
 and
-.Va sparc64 Ns ,
+.Va sparc64
 the
 .Pa /dev/xf86
-driver provides access to the memory and I/O ports of a VGA board for
-use by the XFree86 X servers
+driver provides access to the memory and I/O ports of a VGA board 
+and to the PCI configuration registers 
+for use by the XFree86 X servers
 when running with a kernel security level > 0.
 .Pp
 The X servers require the use of this driver.
@@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ memory, permitting use of the int10 emulation in XFree86 4.0.x.
 Note that this can cause some security problems, since the process that
 has access to the aperture driver can also access part of the kernel
 memory.
-This mode is not supported on sparc64.
+This mode is not supported on alpha or sparc64.
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr XF86_Accel 1 ,