Bug 47383

Summary: FreeBSD/sparc64 5.0-R HW Notes and Ultra 10 Specs
Product: Documentation Reporter: Linh Pham <question>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Bruce A. Mah <bmah>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Linh Pham 2003-01-23 03:40:01 UTC 
In the FreeBSD/sparc64 5.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes, in section 2.3.3
(which covers the Ultra 5/10 workstations), a note for the Ultra 10 needs
to be added stating that the workstation includes a single UPA slot.

Sun's hardware specifications for the Ultra 10 can be found at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U10/spec.html

It doesn't seem that the Ultra 5 workstation has an UPA slot (I don't
have an Ultra 5 nor have access to one to verify it).

Fix: 

Add a bullet below "Three PCI busses" to say something like:

- One UPA slot (Ultra 10 only)
How-To-Repeat: Go to:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html

under section 2.3.3.
Comment 1 ue 2003-01-23 06:43:42 UTC 
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:33:32PM -0800, Linh Pham wrote:
> In the FreeBSD/sparc64 5.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes, in section 2.3.3
> (which covers the Ultra 5/10 workstations), a note for the Ultra 10 needs
> to be added stating that the workstation includes a single UPA slot.

In the current version of the release notes, the specific information
about the systems has been removed completly.  The document now
includes a link to the freely available system descriptions on
Sun's web site.  This version is available at:
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/article.html

/s/Udo
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Comment 2 Linh Pham 2003-01-23 10:52:20 UTC 
On 2003-01-23 07:43 +0100, Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> wrote:

# In the current version of the release notes, the specific information
# about the systems has been removed completly.  The document now
# includes a link to the freely available system descriptions on
# Sun's web site.  This version is available at:
# http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/article.html

That document definitely is more clean to look at, even without the
system/model information. One sentence that probably needs to be updated
is the last in "2 Supported Systems", right before "2.1 Fully Supported
Systems" starts:

If you have a system that is not listed here it may work but has not
been tested. If so, please try it and let us know about it.

It may be simplier to say something like:

If you have a system that is not listed below, please let us know if
${RELEASE-NAME} works on it along with any hardware that does not seem
to work.

Thanks.

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Comment 3 Linh Pham 2003-01-23 11:14:30 UTC 
I forgot to add in the last e-mail... the "us" link in the sentence that
may need to be rewritten also needs to have the href changed from:

"freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org"

to

"mailto:freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org"

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Comment 4 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-01-24 03:40:46 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I committed a variation of the text you suggested in the audit trail. 
Thanks!
Comment 5 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-01-24 03:40:46 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->bmah

I closed this.