Bug 216699

Summary: Remove references to FreeBSD/pc98
Product: Documentation Reporter: John Marino <marino>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Rene Ladan <rene>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: allanjude, bcran, gbe, grahamperrin, jhb, linimon, rene
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Comment 1 Rebecca Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-09-12 02:44:37 UTC 
Add ia64 to that.
Note that new platforms like aarch64 should probably be added, too.

One rather visible place old platforms are still mentioned is in https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.html .
Comment 2 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-04-19 21:50:03 UTC 
It's only removed in head.  pc98 is still present in stable/11 which is still a supported branch, so remove it from the website and docs is quite premature.  ia64 was removed in 11 so is a bit older, but most of the existing references on the website document this clearly.

The bsdinstall-hardware page is definitely stale.  ia64 probably can be removed from that, but also arm, and aarch64 need to be added, maybe powerpc64, etc.
Comment 3 Rene Ladan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-07-11 15:26:34 UTC 
We can remove sparc64 too when stable/12 is end of life.
Comment 4 Rene Ladan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-07-11 19:32:25 UTC 
Track.
Comment 5 Allan Jude freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-07-11 19:36:39 UTC 
technically pc98 and armv5 should be added to the list of old platforms, but I am not sure it is worth the effort
Comment 6 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-12-28 13:50:28 UTC 
Via <https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/?qt=grep&q=pc98>: 

<https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=4acd982474ca512cb4990e979aff5d775ad0e216>

> Remove pages for unsupported platforms: alpha, ia64, and pc98.

Time to close this bug?
Comment 7 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-12-28 18:00:57 UTC 
Yes.