Document a lot of sparc64 internals.

Submitted by:	marius
Reviewed by:	ru
Approved by:	re (blanket)
X-MFC:		not before the code in RELENG_5 matches
		these man pages or vice versa

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+.\"-
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+.\"	from: OpenBSD: creator.4,v 1.20 2005/03/05 01:48:59 miod Exp
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd June 18, 2005
+.Dt CREATOR 4 sparc64
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm creator
+.Nd "accelerated color frame buffer"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "device creator"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Tn Sun Creator ,
+.Tn Sun Creator3D
+and
+.Tn Sun Elite3D
+cards are color frame buffers with graphics acceleration available for
+.Tn UltraSPARC
+workstations with
+.Tn UPA
+slots.
+The
+.Nm
+driver interfaces those frame buffers with the
+.Xr syscons 4
+console driver.
+It also provides separate character devices
+.Pa /dev/fb*
+allowing to
+.Xr mmap 2
+these frame buffers
+(used by X11).
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/fb*"
+.It Pa /dev/fb*
+.Nm
+device nodes
+.El
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Font loading and mode switching are not implemented.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr machfb 4 ,
+.Xr syscons 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver first appeared in
+.Ox 3.2 .
+The first
+.Fx
+version to include it was
+.Fx 5.2 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+The
+.Nm
+driver was written by
+.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org
+roughly based on the
+.Ox
+driver written by
+.An "Jason L. Wright" .