From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 9 20:10:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E5837B416 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0A4A5n88219; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:10:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201100410.g0A4A5n88219@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Subject: RE: docs/33582: i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support Reply-To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/33582; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Cc: Subject: RE: docs/33582: i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:06:09 -0800 I would change the sentence to: All AMD processors are also supported, from the Am486 and Am5x86 up through the K5, K6, Athlon, and Duron processors. to: All AMD i386-compatible processors are also supported, from the Am486 and Am5x86 up through the K5, K6, Athlon, and Duron processors. This covers you in case AMD sometime in the future releases some non-standard variant. AMD is currently pushing the "Athlon XP Processor" which is claimed to have "special features" that support Windows XP. I doubt that these special features (ie: enhanced support for software modems, etc.) are going to be of much use to us for a while. We probably need to put something in there on the status of the 64 bit port - perhaps a pointer to http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ia64.html but that page is pretty old too. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message