Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:18:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49291 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide Message-ID: <201608161318.u7GDI0ns096649@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: brd Date: Tue Aug 16 13:18:00 2016 New Revision: 49291 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49291 Log: Update the reference 64-bit arch and remove a blurb about ia64 vs sparc64. Reported by: mat Reviewed by: bcr Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Tue Aug 16 12:29:51 2016 (r49290) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Tue Aug 16 13:18:00 2016 (r49291) @@ -3614,24 +3614,20 @@ Relnotes: yes</programlisting> <blockquote> <para>Our 32-bit reference platform is &arch.i386;, and our - 64-bit reference platform is &arch.sparc64;. Major design + 64-bit reference platform is &arch.amd64;. Major design work (including major API and ABI changes) must prove itself on at least one 32-bit and at least one 64-bit platform, preferably the primary reference platforms, before it may be committed to the source tree.</para> </blockquote> - <para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.sparc64; platforms were chosen + <para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64; platforms were chosen due to being more readily available to developers and as representatives of more diverse processor and system designs - big versus little endian, register file versus register stack, different DMA and cache implementations, hardware page tables versus software TLB management etc.</para> - <para>The &arch.ia64; platform has many of the same - complications that &arch.sparc64; has, but is still limited in - availability to developers.</para> - <para>We will continue to re-evaluate this policy as cost and availability of the 64-bit platforms change.</para>
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