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Update the reference 64-bit arch and remove a blurb about ia64 vs sparc64.

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Reported by:	mat
Reviewed by:	bcr
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Brad Davis 2016-08-16 13:18:00 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
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@ -3614,24 +3614,20 @@ Relnotes: yes</programlisting>
<blockquote>
<para>Our 32-bit reference platform is &arch.i386;, and our
64-bit reference platform is &arch.sparc64;. Major design
64-bit reference platform is &arch.amd64;. Major design
work (including major API and ABI changes) must prove
itself on at least one 32-bit and at least one 64-bit
platform, preferably the primary reference platforms,
before it may be committed to the source tree.</para>
</blockquote>
<para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.sparc64; platforms were chosen
<para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64; platforms were chosen
due to being more readily available to developers and as
representatives of more diverse processor and system designs -
big versus little endian, register file versus register stack,
different DMA and cache implementations, hardware page tables
versus software TLB management etc.</para>
<para>The &arch.ia64; platform has many of the same
complications that &arch.sparc64; has, but is still limited in
availability to developers.</para>
<para>We will continue to re-evaluate this policy as cost and
availability of the 64-bit platforms change.</para>