Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:51:22 GMT From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/121526: ppc platform page on website out of date Message-ID: <200803091451.m29EpMOB068200@ga9test2.york.ac.uk> Resent-Message-ID: <200803091500.m29F04cJ085107@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 121526 >Category: www >Synopsis: ppc platform page on website out of date >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 09 15:00:04 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gavin Atkinson >Release: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 amd64 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD ga9test2.york.ac.uk 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #0: Fri Nov 16 19:12:38 UTC 2007 root@myers.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: The page at http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html is quite out-of-date, and hasn't been updated to show that official 7.0-RELEASE ISOs are now available for the platform. I've also rearranged the content slightly so that the platforms pages are more consistent with each other. >How-To-Repeat: N/A >Fix: --- ppc.diff begins here --- Index: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/ncvs/www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.20 ppc.sgml --- www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml 2 Feb 2007 07:41:09 -0000 1.20 +++ www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml 9 Mar 2008 14:38:54 -0000 @@ -9,10 +9,16 @@ <html> &header; - <h3>General Information</h3> + <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3> + + <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD + port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these + pages are still a work in progress.</p> + + <h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> - <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> + <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li> <li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li> <li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li> @@ -23,13 +29,11 @@ </ul> - <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3> - - <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD - port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these - pages are still a work in progress.</p> + <h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3> - <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform. That means it is + <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a + <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html"> + Tier 2</a> platform. That means it is not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and toolchain maintainers.<p> @@ -38,8 +42,11 @@ <h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3> <ul> - <li><strong>25 June, 2005</strong>: This page has been - significantly updated.</li> + <li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale® + PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards + has been committed into CVS.</li> + <li><strong>27 February, 2008</strong>: FreeBSD 7.0 is the first + release to officially support the FreeBSD/ppc port.</li> </ul> <hr noshade> @@ -55,10 +62,9 @@ <h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4> - <p>There are ISO images available for download - <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso">here</a>. - Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded - <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso">here</a>. + <p>ISO images of FreeBSD &rel.current; suitable for New-World Macs are + available for download, for details of how to obtain these see the + <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/announce.html">release announcement.</a> Please follow instructions given <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p> @@ -149,8 +155,8 @@ <h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3> - <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to - <a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a> + <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="EMAIL"> + <<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>></tt> or visit <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman interface</a>.</p> @@ -161,6 +167,8 @@ <ul> <li>No AltiVec support yet.</li> + <li>G5 CPUs are unsupported.</li> + <li>SMP is not yet supported.</li> <li>On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work. There is a work-in-progress bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/">here</a> (see if_bm.c and --- ppc.diff ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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