Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:21:05 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install	chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <46B517F1.7030406@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070804204607.GG974@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <200708042034.l74KYIBb061140@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070804204607.GG974@zaphod.nitro.dk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

[-- Attachment #1 --]
If memory serves me right, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2007.08.04 20:34:18 +0000, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> bmah        2007-08-04 20:34:18 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD doc repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml 
>>   Log:
>>   Use &sparc64; entity.  I don't particularly agree with this, because
>>   in this case we really should be using an entity that indicates a
>>   variant of FreeBSD (such as &arch.sparc64; from the release notes),
>>   not the commercial name of an architecture.  However, adopt the
>>   prevailing style of this file for consistency; we can sort this out
>>   later.
> 
> How about simply using "FreeBSD/sparc64" - the architecture name
> instead? (If what you mean is FreeBSD systems which can run on the
> Sparc64 architecture.)

That'd work.  In the hardware notes, we write &os;/&arch.sparc64; or
something like that.

Bruce.



[-- Attachment #2 --]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFGtRgK2MoxcVugUsMRAs58AJsG/P95ltaNyOLdPFgtLqdP+sHatwCdGr9s
7fyKKHqgplCdib77WZ8zPIw=
=u6Vw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46B517F1.7030406>