svn commit: r203527 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 5 16:41:20 UTC 2010
Author: nwhitehorn
Date: Fri Feb 5 16:41:19 2010
New Revision: 203527
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/203527
Log:
Add a description of supported PowerPC hardware to the hardware notes.
Modified:
head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
Modified: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml Fri Feb 5 15:03:43 2010 (r203526)
+++ head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml Fri Feb 5 16:41:19 2010 (r203527)
@@ -316,8 +316,51 @@
<sect2 id="proc-powerpc">
<title>powerpc</title>
- <para>The information for this paragraph has yet to be
- compiled.</para>
+ <para>This section describes the systems currently known to be
+ supported by &os; on the PowerPC platform. This list is not
+ exhaustive.</para>
+
+ <para>In general, all New World architecture Apple hardware
+ is supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple
+ machines.</para>
+
+ <para>All systems listed below are fully supported, with the
+ exception that software fan control is currently missing on
+ the Power Macintosh G5. SMP is supported on all systems with
+ more than 1 processor.</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple iMac</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple Power Macintosh G4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple Power Macintosh G5 (non-970MP models)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple iBook</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple PowerBook G4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple XServe G4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple XServe G5</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Apple Mac Mini</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Embedded boards based on MPC85XX</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="proc-sparc64">
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