From 78a21ab12134ef50719e8576b0b2c34691c67f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warner Losh Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:21:09 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Misc tweaks for arm64 and sparc64 Add arm and arm64 minimal requirements Remove sparc64 reqiurements and VTOC since that's been removed. --- .../en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc index a294000363..c70efeef47 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc @@ -91,19 +91,22 @@ i386:: Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86 architecture. + Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating point unit are supported. All Intel(R) processors 486 or higher are supported. +However, binaries released by the project are compiled for the 686 processor, so a special build will be needed for 486 and 586 systems. + FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) support on CPUs with this feature. A kernel with the PAE feature enabled will detect memory above 4 GB and allow it to be used by the system. However, using PAE places constraints on device drivers and other features of FreeBSD. +arm64:: +Most embedded boards are 64-bit ARM computers. +A number of arm64 servers are supported. + +arm:: +Older armv7 boards are supported. + powerpc:: All New World ROM Apple(R) Mac(R) systems with built-in USB are supported. SMP is supported on machines with multiple CPUs. + A 32-bit kernel can only use the first 2 GB of RAM. -sparc64:: -Systems supported by FreeBSD/sparc64 are listed at the link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sparc/[FreeBSD/sparc64 Project]. -+ -SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor. A dedicated disk is required as it is not possible to share a disk with another operating system at this time. - [[bsdinstall-pre]] == Pre-Installation Tasks @@ -505,9 +508,6 @@ GPT is usually the most appropriate choice for amd64 computers. Older computers |MBR |Master Boot Record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record]). - -|VTOC8 -|Volume Table Of Contents used by Sun SPARC64 and UltraSPARC computers. |=== After the partitioning scheme has been selected and created, select btn:[Create] again to create the partitions. The kbd:[Tab] key is used to move the cursor between fields.