Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:41:29 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20050512194129.GA54425@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050512191250.GA75545@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <200505121505.j4CF5c7i076426@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050512152855.GD92175@eddie.nitro.dk> <20050512154337.GA73901@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050512162100.GA50447@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050512163137.GA74349@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050512171715.GA51426@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050512191250.GA75545@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:12:50PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote.. > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:17:15PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > I did remember clearly that support *had* been axed. I just checked > > to see *when* it was axed (and to make sure people believed me when I > > said so. :-) ) > > Oh, we believe anyone. > > > > > (While talking about supported hardware it might also be noted that to > > > > run 5.x on a real 80386 (+80387 FPU) you need to recompile word+kernel > > > > with 386 support (see the 2005027 and 20010116 entries in UPDATING), > > > > and for 6-CURRENT all support for a real 80386 (with or without FPU) > > > > has been axed completely (20041116 entry in UPDATING)) > > > > > > I'll see if I can put that in. > > > > > > On the other hand: is that a FAQ? Isn't that in the hardware notes? > > > > These days it is probably not much of an FAQ; few people seem to try to > > install FreeBSD on anything older than a Pentium these days. > > > > As for the hardware notes, that information ought to be there, but does > > not seem to be. > > > > (The hardware notes for 6-CURRENT seems to be correct, while those for > > 5-STABLE needs to be updated. The hardware notes for both 4.x and 5.x > > also has bogus warnings about the 80386sx which should be removed. (Bogus > > since from the OS's point of view there is no difference whatsoever > > between the 80386sx and a full-blowb 80386dx.) > > That's under /usr/src, which rules me out. Could you open a PR about > this, so it doesn't get lost? Thanks much! Why does that rule you out? doc committers can do doc changes (e.g. also for man pages) for docs living under /usr/src -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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