Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:23:24 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture Message-ID: <20010912012324.A4284@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:38:30PM -0700 References: <200109102338.f8ANcUG66810@nimitz.packetdesign.com>
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:38:30PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: Bruce, I'm more than happy to take maintainership of this one, plenty of Alphas here. But I'm out of cycles this week. I just got home from work (01:15 pm) so it will need a bit of time, Wilko > Some time ago, I observed that the Handbook installation chapter was > oriented very strongly towards the i386 architecture. In an effort to > remedy this situation, what I've done is to bring the Alpha-specific > parts of the RELNOTESng install document into a form usable in the > Handbook. By nik's (very reasonable) request, I've held off on > committing this, but instead am posting a diff at the end of this > message. > > (nik is concerned about the impending print deadline for the Handbook. > No argument there. Another reason is that I am not a FreeBSD alpha > developer, or even a FreeBSD alpha user. Definitely this needs a cycle > of feedback before it goes in the Handbook "for real".) > > In the best of all possible worlds, someone who's both an alpha and a > doc person would just grab this diff and fix it up (committing it at > some suitable time). Lacking this, I'll try (Copious Free Time (TM) > permitting) to incorporate feedback from alpha developers/users. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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