Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:35:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-6@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r203427 - stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha Message-ID: <201002031235.o13CZh4d095124@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wilko Date: Wed Feb 3 12:35:42 2010 New Revision: 203427 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/203427 Log: Add some blurb on what Alpha systems are a safe bet for still working with RELENG_6. Triggered by: some emails sent to me. Modified: stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml Modified: stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml ============================================================================== --- stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml Wed Feb 3 12:00:57 2010 (r203426) +++ stable/6/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml Wed Feb 3 12:35:42 2010 (r203427) @@ -13,6 +13,20 @@ <title>Supported processors and motherboards</title> + <para><emphasis>NOTE NOTE NOTE</emphasis></para> + + <para>&os; 6 is the last release of &os; to support the Alpha + platform. I have been asked which Alpha system models have the + best chance of working, given the more and more limited testing performed + on a more and more restricted set of different machine types.</para> + + <para>The binary distributions of &os; /alpha were built on a DS10 machine. + By coincidence I had a DS20L available for testing too. All in all this + makes DS10, DS10L or DS20L your best best bet. DS20 and DS20E are + also fairly safe. Loosely speaking these models are the last EV6 based systems + released. Systems to explicitely avoid are the old AS2100 and AS2100A. + This also applies to the neat DS15, it was never supported.</para> + <para>Additions, corrections and constructive criticism are invited. In particular, information on system quirks is more than welcome.</para>
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