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From: Craig Reyenga <dreyenga@telus.net>
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Subject: docs/33582: i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support
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>Number:         33582
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 05 13:00:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Craig Reyenga
>Release:        4.4-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
In section 2 of the i386 release notes, it states:

"FreeBSD for the i386 currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA and PCI bus based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium 4 class machines (though the 386sx is not recommended)."

There is no mention of support for any AMD or Cyrix processor, even
though most, if not all are supported by FreeBSD. This is a big deal
becuase people ask about AMD processor support all of
the time on IRC.
>How-To-Repeat:
Using your favourite browser, head to:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/hardware-i386.html
and read section 2.
>Fix:
Make mention of processor support from all vendors, not just Intel.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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