svn commit: r52992 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms
Mark Linimon
linimon at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 9 05:18:48 UTC 2019
Author: linimon
Date: Thu May 9 05:18:47 2019
New Revision: 52992
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52992
Log:
Attempt to bring this page into the current decade, part 1: remove news
from 2011 and previous; point to the mailing list rather then grehan,
who is now less active; point to the wiki as a better reference of
currently supported systems.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml Thu May 9 02:30:56 2019 (r52991)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml Thu May 9 05:18:47 2019 (r52992)
@@ -39,22 +39,22 @@
<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>
+ toolchain maintainers. However, it is supported by portmgr (package
+ building).</p>
+ <p>The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently
+ being maintained
+ <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc">on the wiki</a>.</p>
+
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
- <li><strong>05 January, 2011</strong>: Support for the Sony Playstation 3
- has been committed to SVN.</li>
- <li><strong>13 July, 2010</strong>: Support for the powerpc64 architecture
- added.</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>
+ <li><strong>05 June, 2019</strong>: FreeBSD has been tested and seems
+ to work on the
+ <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/Raptor/Blackbird">Raptor
+ Blackbird</a>.</li>
</ul>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
@@ -96,15 +96,16 @@
<h4><a name="5">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
- <p><a href="mailto:grehan at FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a> is the project
- leader. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
- to know about the status of this project, check this page
- regularly or join the
- <a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a>.</p>
+ <p>The <a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a> is the main
+ resource.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="hardware">Supported Hardware</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently
+ being maintained
+ <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc">on the wiki</a>.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World Apple machine (any Apple
machine with a built-in USB port), as well as the Sony Playstation 3. A
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