Author: gjb (doc,ports committer)
Date: Thu Mar 28 22:52:42 2013
New Revision: 248857
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248857
Log:
- Update hardware notes to reflect that amd64 is no longer "young"[1]
- Bump copyright year
Patched by: skreuzer
Modified:
head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml
Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Thu Mar 28
22:49:49 2013 (r248856)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Thu Mar 28
22:52:42 2013 (r248857)
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
<year>2010</year>
<year>2011</year>
<year>2012</year>
+ <year>2013</year>
<holder role="mailto:d...@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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