From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 21 19:04:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B887F24E; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7D802D77; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rALJ4xgs016291; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id rALJ4xYn016290; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 GMT (envelope-from rodrigc@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201311211904.rALJ4xYn016290@svn.freebsd.org> From: Craig Rodrigues Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:04:59 -0000 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. &os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) support - on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the - options SMP 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 @@ powerpc - This section describes the systems currently known to be - supported by &os; on the PowerPC platform. This list is not - exhaustive. - - In general, all New World architecture Apple hardware - is supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple - machines. - - 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. + All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are supported, + as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines, + including KVM on POWER7 - - - Apple iMac G3 - - - Apple iMac G4 - - - Apple iMac G5 - - - Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) - - - Apple Power Macintosh G4 - - - Apple Power Macintosh G5 - - - Apple iBook G3 - - - Apple iBook G4 - - - Apple PowerBook G3 (Lombard and Pismo) - - - Apple PowerBook G4 - - - Apple XServe G4 - - - Apple XServe G5 - - - Apple Mac Mini - - - Embedded boards based on MPC85XX - - + SMP is supported on all systems with more than + 1 processor. @@ -367,10 +314,7 @@ 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 - Sun System - Handbook. + platforms. SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.