Review and update the processor/chipset specific support. Replace the

dead links to the Itanium and Itanium 2 pages on the Intel site.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/ia64/proc-ia64.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/ia64/proc-ia64.sgml
index 597a5f7..5ad45e5 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/ia64/proc-ia64.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/ia64/proc-ia64.sgml
@@ -4,18 +4,16 @@
 <sect1 id="proc-ia64">
   <title>Supported Processors and Motherboards</title>
 
-  <para>Currently supported processors are the 
-    <ulink url="http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/itanium/index.htm">Itanium</ulink>
-    and the <ulink url="http://www.intel.com/design/itanium2/index.htm">Itanium 2</ulink>.</para>
+  <para>Currently supported processors are the
+    <ulink url="http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/refs/ia64/itanium/24532003.pdf">
+    Itanium</ulink> and the
+    <ulink url="http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/refs/ia64/itanium2/25111003.pdf">
+    Itanium 2</ulink>.</para>
 
   <para>Supported chipsets include:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
-       <para>HP zx1 (only on development branch, see the 
-         <ulink url="http://perforce.FreeBSD.org/">Perforce repository</ulink>)</para>
-     </listitem>
-     <listitem>
-       <para>HP i2000</para>
+       <para>HP zx1</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Intel 460GX</para>
@@ -26,58 +24,17 @@
    </itemizedlist>
 
   <para>Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP)
-    configurations are under active development.  At this time,
-    SMP-enabled systems are considered less stable.  The current
-    priorities are UP fixes to improve stability.</para>
+    configurations are supported.</para>
 
   <sect2>
     <title>Supported Devices Overview</title>
 
-    <para>This section contains additional information about what
-      devices may or may not be supported by &os;/&arch;.</para>
-
-    <para>Except for the PC chipset embedded &man.ata.4; controllers,
-      most should work out of the box.  Eventually, all
-      &arch;-compatible ATA controllers are expected to be fully
-      supported.  Refer to the following sections for various disk
-      controllers and their current status.</para>
-    
-    <para>In general, <quote>PC standard</quote> serial ports
-      supported by the &man.sio.4; driver are expected to work on
-      Intel legacy machines, but not PA legacy machines.  The reason
-      is that all devices on HP machines are memory-mapped and there
-      is <emphasis>no</emphasis> ISA device support other than the PCI
-      dictated VGA legacy.</para>
-
-    <para>In addition to &man.sio.4; devices, the following devices
-      fail on non-Intel legacy machines (but should work on boxes with
-      an Intel legacy) because their drivers make ISA-specific
-      assumptions that do not hold:</para>
-
-    <informaltable frame="none">
-      <tgroup cols="2">
-	<tbody>
-	  <row>
-            <entry>&man.sio.4;</entry>
-            <entry>No support for memory-mapped I/O</entry>
-	  </row>
-
-	  <row>
-            <entry>&man.syscons.4;</entry>
-            <entry>Expect BIOS, VGA probes, etc.</entry>
-	  </row>
-
-	  <row>
-            <entry>&man.pcm.4;</entry>
-            <entry>Probes MSS ISA ports <emphasis>ad nauseum</emphasis></entry>
-	  </row>
-
-	  <row>
-            <entry>&man.atkbd.4;, &man.psm.4;</entry>
-            <entry>Fixed ISA port locations</entry>
-	  </row>
-	</tbody>
-      </tgroup>
-    </informaltable>
+    <para>Most devices that can be found in or are compatible with
+      &arch; machines are fully supported.  The notable exception
+      is the VGA console. The &os; support for VGA consoles is at
+      this time too much based on PC hardware and not all &arch;
+      machines have chipsets that provide sufficient PC legacy
+      support. As such &man.syscons.4; can not be enabled and the
+      use of a serial console is required.</para>
   </sect2>
 </sect1>