Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:18:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r248889 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware Message-ID: <201303291418.r2TEIvdN013396@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb (doc,ports committer) Date: Fri Mar 29 14:18:56 2013 New Revision: 248889 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248889 Log: MFC r248857: - Update hardware notes to reflect that amd64 is no longer "young" - Bump copyright year Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Directory Properties: stable/8/release/doc/ (props changed) stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/ (props changed) Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml ============================================================================== --- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Fri Mar 29 14:18:49 2013 (r248888) +++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Fri Mar 29 14:18:56 2013 (r248889) @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ <year>2010</year> <year>2011</year> <year>2012</year> + <year>2013</year> <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> </copyright> @@ -135,20 +136,13 @@ to &intel; EM64T as <quote>64-bit extension technology</quote> or <quote>IA-32e</quote>.</para> - <para>The largest tested memory configuration to date is 64GB. - SMP support has been recently completed and is reasonably - robust.</para> + <para>Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) + configurations are supported.</para> <para>In many respects, &os;/&arch.amd64; is similar to - &os;/&arch.i386;, in terms of drivers supported. There may be - some issues with 64-bit cleanliness in some (particularly - older) drivers. Generally, drivers that already function - correctly on other 64-bit platforms should work.</para> - - <para>&os;/&arch.amd64; is a very young platform on &os;. While - the core &os; kernel and base system components are generally - fairly robust, there are likely to still be rough edges, - particularly with third party packages.</para> + &os;/&arch.i386;, in terms of drivers supported. Generally, + drivers that already function correctly on other 64-bit + platforms should work.</para> </sect2>
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