Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r258433 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware Message-ID: <201311211904.rALJ4xYn016290@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: rodrigc Date: Thu Nov 21 19:04:59 2013 New Revision: 258433 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258433 Log: Update text related to Intel CPU support and Apple hardware support. Submitted by: skreuzer Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Thu Nov 21 19:00:21 2013 (r258432) +++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.xml Thu Nov 21 19:04:59 2013 (r258433) @@ -178,9 +178,7 @@ the &a.smp; may yield some clues.</para> <para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) support - on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the - <literal>options SMP</literal> feature enabled will - automatically detect the additional logical processors. The + on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. The default &os; scheduler treats the logical processors the same as additional physical processors; in other words, no attempt is made to optimize scheduling decisions given the shared @@ -303,63 +301,12 @@ <sect2 xml:id="proc-powerpc"> <title>powerpc</title> - <para>This section describes the systems currently known to be - supported by &os; on the PowerPC platform. This list is not - exhaustive.</para> - - <para>In general, all New World architecture Apple hardware - is supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple - machines.</para> - - <para>All systems listed below are fully supported, with the - exception that software fan control is currently missing on - some Power Macintosh G5 models. SMP is supported on all systems - with more than 1 processor.</para> + <para>All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are supported, + as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines, + including KVM on POWER7</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Apple iMac G3</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple iMac G4</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple iMac G5</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple Power Macintosh G4</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple Power Macintosh G5</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple iBook G3</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple iBook G4</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple PowerBook G3 (Lombard and Pismo)</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple PowerBook G4</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple XServe G4</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple XServe G5</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Apple Mac Mini</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Embedded boards based on MPC85XX</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> + <para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than + 1 processor.</para> </sect2> <sect2 xml:id="proc-sparc64"> @@ -367,10 +314,7 @@ <para>This section describes the systems currently known to be supported by &os; on the Fujitsu &sparc64; and Sun &ultrasparc; - platforms. For - background information on the various hardware designs see the - <link xlink:href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/">Sun System - Handbook</link>.</para> + platforms.</para> <para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.</para>
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