www/121523: sparc platform info on website is out of date
Gavin Atkinson
gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Sun Mar 9 14:50:02 UTC 2008
>Number: 121523
>Category: www
>Synopsis: sparc platform info on website is out of date
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-www
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 09 14:50:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gavin Atkinson
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ga9test2.york.ac.uk 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #0: Fri Nov 16 19:12:38 UTC 2007 root at myers.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
The page at http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html is very
out-of-date. Included patch corrects as much as I'm able to, and also
slightly rearranges the content to match the other platforms pages (more
PRs to come...)
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
--- sparc.diff begins here ---
Index: www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/ncvs/www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 sparc.sgml
--- www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml 16 Oct 2006 18:06:12 -0000 1.28
+++ www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml 9 Mar 2008 14:39:20 -0000
@@ -13,68 +13,35 @@
<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
<p>This page contains information about the FreeBSD port to Sun Microsystem's
- UltraSPARC® architecture. UltraSPARC is a
- <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
- Tier 1</a> architecture, and as such is fully supported by the
- <a href="&base;">FreeBSD</a> project. However, the port
- is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports. Discussion of the
- UltraSPARC port takes place on the
+ UltraSPARC® architecture. Discussion of the UltraSPARC port takes
+ place on the
<a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64">freebsd-sparc</a>
mailing list.</p>
<h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#who">Credits</a></li>
- <li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
<li><a href="#hw">Hardware List</a></li>
- <li><a href="#todo">What Needs To Be Done</a></li>
- <li><a href="#links">Pointers Of Interest</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3><a name="who">Credits</a></h3>
-
- <p>The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
- the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="mailto:jake at FreeBSD.org">&a.jake;</a></li>
- <li><a href="mailto:tmm at FreeBSD.org">&a.tmm;</a></li>
- <li><a href="mailto:obrien at FreeBSD.org">&a.obrien;</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#who">Credits</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#list">FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#links">Points of Interest</a></li>
</ul>
- <h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
+ <h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3>
- <ul>
- <li><p><b>25 October, 2004</b> : The CS4231 audio driver has
- been ported from <a href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
- so SBus workstations equipped with sound hardware (Ultra 1E,
- Ultra 2) get sound support.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>9 October, 2004</b> : The auxio driver has been ported
- from <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/">NetBSD</a>.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>10 June, 2004</b> : The esp driver has been imported
- from <a href="http://www.NetBSD.org/">NetBSD</a>, so the
- Ultra 1E and Ultra 2 machines get SCSI support now.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>18 January, 2003</b> : The if_xl driver is
- <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200301190023.h0J0Nx0N068255">
- now</a> supported in -CURRENT.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>10 December, 2002</b> : Daily snapshots of 5.0-CURRENT are now
- available on
- <a href="ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64">
- ftp2.FreeBSD.org</a>.
- </p></li>
- </ul>
+ <p>UltraSPARC is a
+ <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
+ Tier 2</a> architecture, and as such is not fully supported by the
+ <a href="&base;">FreeBSD</a> project. Although fully functional, the port
+ is not as mature as the existing i386 or amd64 ports.</p>
<h3><a name="hw">Hardware List</a></h3>
<p>A summary of supported systems follows. SMP is supported on all supported
systems that contain more than 1 processor. For full details please see
the
- <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/hardware-sparc64.html">
+ <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/hardware.html">
release notes</a> of the <a href="&base;/releases/">
release</a> you are using.</p>
@@ -97,6 +64,7 @@
<li>Netra X1</li>
<li>SPARCEngine® Ultra Axi</li>
<li>SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp</li>
+ <li>Ultra 1</li>
<li>Ultra 1E</li>
<li>Ultra 2</li>
<li>Ultra™ 5</li>
@@ -120,7 +88,6 @@
<ul>
<li>Any system with an UltraSPARC III or greater processor.</li>
- <li>Ultra 1</li>
</ul>
<p>Any system not listed here that does not have an UltraSPARC III or greater
@@ -128,12 +95,26 @@
a system that is not listed here please try it, and let
<a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc at FreeBSD.org">us</a> know about it.</p>
- <h3><a name="todo">What Needs To Be Done</a></h3>
+ <p>Note that newer UltraSPARC-T1® processor based systems are supported
+ by the <a href="&base;/platforms/sun4v.html">FreeBSD/sun4v Project</a></p>
+
+ <h3><a name="who">Credits</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The following people have been working either in the spotlights or behind
+ the scenes to get the FreeBSD port off the ground:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Update this webpage more often.</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:jake at FreeBSD.org">&a.jake;</a></li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:tmm at FreeBSD.org">&a.tmm;</a></li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:obrien at FreeBSD.org">&a.obrien;</a></li>
</ul>
+ <h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/sparc64 mailing list</a></h3>
+
+ <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="
+ EMAIL"><<a href="mailto:freebsd-sparc64-subscribe at FreeBSD.org">freebsd-sparc64-subscribe at FreeBSD.org</a>></tt>
+ or visit <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64">mailman interface</a>.</p>
+
<h3><a name="links">Pointers Of Interest</a></h3>
<ul>
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