Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 15:33:08 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64 release documentation Message-ID: <20021110143308.GB333@crow.dom2ip.de> In-Reply-To: <200211082100.gA8L0OMc019228@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200211082100.gA8L0OMc019228@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Fri, 2002/11/08 at 13:00:24 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Hi sparc-ers, > > I've been perusing the sparc64 release documentation, and it looks like > there's a few things that can be updated. To wit: > > 1. The install documentation is kind of obsolete, now that there's a > real, running sysinstall. I think the sequence of instructions is now > much closer to what i386, alpha, and pc98 use, which means we can > probably use the unified installation document for them now (with > suitable customization). Agreed. I'd like to keep the the instructions to setup network booting somewhere (not necessarily in the install documentation). > 2. The hardware list probably could use some updating too, I'm working on this, but am not done yet (need to collect some more models that have been reported as working). > but this might be a little more useful if we could also cut over to > the unified hardware list. I think it would be better to have a separated list that only mentions drivers that have been confirmed to work on sparc64 for now, since there are a lot of drivers which do not yet use busdma or cannot handle big-endian architectures yet. > Is there any interest in helping me update these things? (I'm not a > sparc64 person, BTW.) If so, I'll change the documentation files to use > the regular hardware and installation documents and let people go at it. > I can help with markup issues, if necessary, but I don't know much > about this platform. I will try to help as time permits. I'm not sure I will be done in time for DP2 though (if the anticipated release date is still November 20). - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ <tmm@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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