From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 9 21: 6:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093CE37B41B; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9808BDBF; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21546; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:06:21 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0A56gx43577; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:06:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/33582: i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support References: <200201100020.g0A0K2d41468@freefall.freebsd.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 09 Jan 2002 21:06:42 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200201100020.g0A0K2d41468@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <1e3d1e23rx.d1e@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Bruce A. Mah" writes: > &os; for the i386 runs on a wide variety of > PC compatible machines. How about "IBM-PC-compatible" or (shudder) "WinTel-PC-comptatible"? Some of us still like to imagine that PC only means "Personal Computer". > 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, > Pentium 4, and variants thereof. All AMD processors are also Should "Xeon" be added to that list, or is that a variant? > Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA > (Microchannel), AGP, and PCI expansion busses are > supported to varying degrees (in particular, MCA-based machines > enjoy more limited support than the others). Symmetric > multi-processor (SMP) motherboards are generally supported. I wonder if SMP MBs are segregated there for a reason. Is "generally supported" different than "supported to varying degrees"? Maybe it'd be better to remove the last sentence and change the first to something like "Motherboards with symmetric multi-processor support and those with ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, PCI, and MCA expansion busses are usually supported, but there are exceptions. Usually this is because of MB or BIOS bugs with no work-around (yet), but othertimes (eg, MCA MBs) nobody has had sufficient interest to support the MB or some of its features. It is best to check FreeBSD forum archives or ask." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message