Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:53:43 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r49291 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide Message-ID: <b43f5c4b-e69f-e7e3-a939-232b1bfa2fb0@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201608161318.u7GDI0ns096649@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201608161318.u7GDI0ns096649@repo.freebsd.org>
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On 8/16/16 6:18 AM, Brad Davis wrote: > 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 This needs a bit more work. This change is ok (sparc64 simply isn't prevelant), but it is not as simple a change as this commit implies. > 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> None of these differences are now true. Both are little endian, both use a register file, both use the same DMA and cache implementation, and both use hardware page tables. I think you need to axe this entire paragraph. -- John Baldwin
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