svn commit: r317835 - head/share/man/man7

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 5 May 2017 at 12:40, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: emaste
>> Date: Fri May  5 16:40:45 2017
>> New Revision: 317835
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317835
>>
>> +.It alpha       Ta 1.0   Ta 6.4
>
> This is incorrect, pointed out by cognet at . The only pre-4.x alpha
> release I see on ftp-archive is 3.4, although earlier 3.x release
> notes make reference to alpha. What was the release that really
> supported alpha?

Alpha came into the tree in the 3.x time line and was the reason we
started moving to newbus in 4.x (which was only completed by 5.0). I'm
pretty sure there was no alpha support as late as 2.2 since I was just
looking there for a different reason.

There's a similar issue with pc98. It has been in the tree since 2.2.
The FreeBSD(98) folks did releases through the 4.x series from almost
unmodified FreeBSD trees (the modifications were related to pc98's
unique requirements wrt release engineering and occasionally an
advance copy of a driver that hadn't been integrated into FreeBSD
proper yet). You could run pc98 machines that you build from source
from at least 3.2, if not earlier (that was the first release I did it
with for various crazy reasons).

Warner