cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml

Bruce A. Mah bmah at freebsd.org
Sat Aug 4 17:21:31 PDT 2007


If memory serves me right, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2007.08.04 20:34:18 +0000, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> bmah        2007-08-04 20:34:18 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD doc repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml 
>>   Log:
>>   Use &sparc64; entity.  I don't particularly agree with this, because
>>   in this case we really should be using an entity that indicates a
>>   variant of FreeBSD (such as &arch.sparc64; from the release notes),
>>   not the commercial name of an architecture.  However, adopt the
>>   prevailing style of this file for consistency; we can sort this out
>>   later.
> 
> How about simply using "FreeBSD/sparc64" - the architecture name
> instead? (If what you mean is FreeBSD systems which can run on the
> Sparc64 architecture.)

That'd work.  In the hardware notes, we write &os;/&arch.sparc64; or
something like that.

Bruce.


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