Update for www/amd64/motherboards.sgml - please review

Martin Cracauer cracauer at cons.org
Mon Aug 15 19:58:12 UTC 2005


Pav Lucistnik wrote on Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:54:13PM +0200: 
> Martin Cracauer píse v po 15. 08. 2005 v 15:45 -0400:
> > Can somebody who has the SGML system running and is a native speaker
> > of English please review the appended diff?
> > 
> > It contains entries for the 4 mainboards that I tried with
> > FreeBSD/AMD64 recently.
> 
> I'm the lord of motherboard page...
> 
> Could you please make the Notes fields a little less verbose, and drop
> all strictly non-technical stuff? Check 
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
> for inspiration. No prices, no reviews, no feelings, just terse notes
> about what works with FreeBSD and what not.

I don't think that would be too useful.  Things are a little more
complicated than just "works" or not.

I'll drop some of the pure impression stuff, lets see how we are doing
then. 

> Also please wrap the lines at 72. Or I can fix the style once we're
> happy with the content.

OK, I was just following the style of the other entries.

> More notes:
> - Dual-core Opteron == Opteron rev. E.

No, different things.  All dual-cores are E steppings, but there are
single-core E stepping processors, too.

> - please use formal talk, Windoze -> Windows ...

Ohhhhhhh :-)

Martin
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