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author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-28 22:52:42 +0000 |
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committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-03-28 22:52:42 +0000 |
commit | 8f4f84eb7c57d959e87c2edb5af36ee8ca5819db (patch) | |
tree | 2c68ebd1cdda846ab62a252f161d67166a5da4c7 /release | |
parent | fbb25b5bab04bee98c82b7fff222319161153ff7 (diff) | |
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- Update hardware notes to reflect that amd64 is no longer "young"[1]
- Bump copyright year
Patched by: skreuzer
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml index 3d48cb9..2fa7b85 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ <year>2010</year> <year>2011</year> <year>2012</year> + <year>2013</year> <holder role="mailto:doc@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> |