svn commit: r40095 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 19 13:12:34 UTC 2012
Author: eadler
Date: Mon Nov 19 13:12:34 2012
New Revision: 40095
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40095
Log:
Redirect people to more appropriate places rather than replicating
information in the FAQ. This also means that should the information
change only one source-of-truth need change.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Mon Nov 19 13:12:32 2012 (r40094)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Mon Nov 19 13:12:34 2012 (r40095)
@@ -2046,18 +2046,18 @@
</question>
<answer>
- <para>Yes. &os; currently runs on the &intel; x86 and the
- AMD64 architectures. The &intel; EM64T, IA-64, &arm;,
- &powerpc;, and &sparc64; architectures are also
- supported. Upcoming platforms are &mips; and &s390;, join
- the &a.mips; for more information about ongoing work on
- the &mips; platform. For general discussion on new
- architectures, join the &a.platforms;.</para>
-
- <para>If your machine has a different architecture and you
- need something right now, we suggest you look at <ulink
- url="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</ulink> or <ulink
- url="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>Yes. &os; divides support into multiple tiers.
+ Tier 1 architectures, such as i386 or amd64; are
+ fully supported. Tiers 2 and 3 are supported on a
+ if-possible basis. A full explanation of the tier
+ system is available in the
+ <ulink
+ url="&url.articles.committers-guide;/archs.html">Committer's Guide.</ulink></para>
+
+ <para>A complete list of supported architectures can be
+ found on the
+ <ulink
+ url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/">platforms page.</ulink></para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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