www/121526: ppc platform page on website out of date
Gavin Atkinson
gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Sun Mar 9 15:00:05 UTC 2008
>Number: 121526
>Category: www
>Synopsis: ppc platform page on website out of date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 15:00:04 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/ppc.html is quite
out-of-date, and hasn't been updated to show that official 7.0-RELEASE
ISOs are now available for the platform. I've also rearranged the
content slightly so that the platforms pages are more consistent with
each other.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
--- ppc.diff begins here ---
Index: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/ncvs/www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 ppc.sgml
--- www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml 2 Feb 2007 07:41:09 -0000 1.20
+++ www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml 9 Mar 2008 14:38:54 -0000
@@ -9,10 +9,16 @@
<html>
&header;
- <h3>General Information</h3>
+ <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
+ port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these
+ pages are still a work in progress.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
<li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li>
@@ -23,13 +29,11 @@
</ul>
- <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
-
- <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
- port to the PowerPC® architecture. As with the port itself, these
- pages are still a work in progress.</p>
+ <h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3>
- <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform. That means it is
+ <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a
+ <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
+ Tier 2</a> platform. That means it is
not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
toolchain maintainers.<p>
@@ -38,8 +42,11 @@
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li><strong>25 June, 2005</strong>: This page has been
- significantly updated.</li>
+ <li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale®
+ PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
+ has been committed into CVS.</li>
+ <li><strong>27 February, 2008</strong>: FreeBSD 7.0 is the first
+ release to officially support the FreeBSD/ppc port.</li>
</ul>
<hr noshade>
@@ -55,10 +62,9 @@
<h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
- <p>There are ISO images available for download
- <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso">here</a>.
- Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded
- <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso">here</a>.
+ <p>ISO images of FreeBSD &rel.current; suitable for New-World Macs are
+ available for download, for details of how to obtain these see the
+ <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/announce.html">release announcement.</a>
Please follow instructions given
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
@@ -149,8 +155,8 @@
<h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3>
- <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to
- <a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe at FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe at FreeBSD.org</a>
+ <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="EMAIL">
+ <<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe at FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe at FreeBSD.org</a>></tt>
or visit
<a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman
interface</a>.</p>
@@ -161,6 +167,8 @@
<ul>
<li>No AltiVec support yet.</li>
+ <li>G5 CPUs are unsupported.</li>
+ <li>SMP is not yet supported.</li>
<li>On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work. There is a work-in-progress
bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page
<a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/">here</a> (see if_bm.c and
--- ppc.diff ends here ---
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