From 8f4f84eb7c57d959e87c2edb5af36ee8ca5819db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gjb Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:52:42 +0000 Subject: - Update hardware notes to reflect that amd64 is no longer "young"[1] - Bump copyright year Patched by: skreuzer --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'release/doc') 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 @@ 2010 2011 2012 + 2013 The &os; Documentation Project @@ -135,20 +136,13 @@ to &intel; EM64T as 64-bit extension technology or IA-32e. - The largest tested memory configuration to date is 64GB. - SMP support has been recently completed and is reasonably - robust. + Both Uniprocessor (UP) and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) + configurations are supported. 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. - - &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. + &os;/&arch.i386;, in terms of drivers supported. Generally, + drivers that already function correctly on other 64-bit + platforms should work. -- cgit v1.1