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authorrodrigc <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>2013-11-21 19:04:59 +0000
committerrodrigc <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>2013-11-21 19:04:59 +0000
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Update text related to Intel CPU support and Apple hardware support.
Submitted by: skreuzer
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml
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+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml
@@ -178,9 +178,7 @@
the &a.smp; may yield some clues.</para>
<para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) support
- on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the
- <literal>options&nbsp;SMP</literal> feature enabled will
- automatically detect the additional logical processors. The
+ on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. The
default &os; scheduler treats the logical processors the same
as additional physical processors; in other words, no attempt
is made to optimize scheduling decisions given the shared
@@ -303,63 +301,12 @@
<sect2 xml:id="proc-powerpc">
<title>powerpc</title>
- <para>This section describes the systems currently known to be
- supported by &os; on the PowerPC platform. This list is not
- exhaustive.</para>
-
- <para>In general, all New World architecture Apple hardware
- is supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple
- machines.</para>
-
- <para>All systems listed below are fully supported, with the
- exception that software fan control is currently missing on
- some Power Macintosh G5 models. SMP is supported on all systems
- with more than 1 processor.</para>
+ <para>All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are supported,
+ as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines,
+ including KVM on POWER7</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple iMac G3</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple iMac G4</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple iMac G5</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue &amp; White)</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple Power Macintosh G4</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple Power Macintosh G5</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple iBook G3</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple iBook G4</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple PowerBook G3 (Lombard and Pismo)</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple PowerBook G4</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple XServe G4</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple XServe G5</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Apple Mac Mini</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Embedded boards based on MPC85XX</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ <para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than
+ 1 processor.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="proc-sparc64">
@@ -367,10 +314,7 @@
<para>This section describes the systems currently known to be
supported by &os; on the Fujitsu &sparc64; and Sun &ultrasparc;
- platforms. For
- background information on the various hardware designs see the
- <link xlink:href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/">Sun System
- Handbook</link>.</para>
+ platforms.</para>
<para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1
processor.</para>
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