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author | marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-02-07 03:34:28 +0000 |
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committer | marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-02-07 03:34:28 +0000 |
commit | 6770fb20f29c6238a166f237c7004f03e2b1acd3 (patch) | |
tree | 1bd0482df13a06d86b613e08d1364d7c6b86dd13 /release | |
parent | 2a4c3e66bacc914cebad033724f3ad360b904185 (diff) | |
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Review and update the processor/chipset specific support. Replace the
dead links to the Itanium and Itanium 2 pages on the Intel site.
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-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/ia64/proc-ia64.sgml | 71 |
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> |