Attachment 85358 Details for Bug 121526 – ppc.diff

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>Index: www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /usr/ncvs/www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.20
>diff -u -r1.20 ppc.sgml
>--- www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml	2 Feb 2007 07:41:09 -0000	1.20
>+++ www/en/platforms/ppc.sgml	9 Mar 2008 14:38:54 -0000
>@@ -9,10 +9,16 @@
> <html>
>   &header;
> 
>-  <h3>General Information</h3>
>+  <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
>+
>+  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
>+    port to the PowerPC&reg; architecture.  As with the port itself, these
>+    pages are still a work in progress.</p>
>+
>+  <h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
> 
>   <ul>
>-    <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
>+    <li><a href="#status">Status</a></li>
>     <li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
>     <li><a href="#faq">Port FAQs</a></li>
>     <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware</a></li>
>@@ -23,13 +29,11 @@
>   </ul>
> 
> 
>-  <h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
>-
>-  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc project pages contain information about the FreeBSD
>-    port to the PowerPC&reg; architecture.  As with the port itself, these
>-    pages are still a work in progress.</p>
>+  <h3><a name="status">Status</a></h3>
> 
>-  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a Tier-2 platform.  That means it is
>+  <p>The FreeBSD/ppc port is still a
>+    <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>
> 
>@@ -38,8 +42,11 @@
>   <h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
> 
>   <ul>
>-    <li><strong>25 June, 2005</strong>: This page has been
>-      significantly updated.</li>
>+    <li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale&reg;
>+      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>
>   </ul>
> 
>   <hr noshade>
>@@ -55,10 +62,9 @@
> 
>   <h4><a name="1">How can I install FreeBSD/ppc?</a></h4>
> 
>-  <p>There are ISO images available for download
>-    <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso">here</a>.
>-    Latest 7.0-CURRENT ISO image can be downloaded
>-    <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso">here</a>.
>+  <p>ISO images of FreeBSD &rel.current; suitable for New-World Macs are
>+    available for download, for details of how to obtain these see the
>+    <a href="&base;/releases/&rel.current;R/announce.html">release announcement.</a>
>     Please follow instructions given
>     <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt">here</a>.</p>
> 
>@@ -149,8 +155,8 @@
> 
>   <h3><a name="list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a></h3>
> 
>-  <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to
>-    <a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>
>+  <p>To subscribe to this list, send mail to <tt class="EMAIL">
>+    &#60;<a href="mailto:freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-ppc-subscribe@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
>     or visit
>     <a href="http://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc">mailman
>     interface</a>.</p>
>@@ -161,6 +167,8 @@
> 
>   <ul>
>     <li>No AltiVec support yet.</li>
>+    <li>G5 CPUs are unsupported.</li>
>+    <li>SMP is not yet supported.</li>
>     <li>On-board BMAC+ ethernet does not work.  There is a work-in-progress
>       bm(4) driver available on Peter Grehan's personal page
>       <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/">here</a> (see if_bm.c and

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