From d2130c61e2cae693442df88121e311e5b34b7781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Linimon
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 05:18:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Attempt to bring this page into the current decade, part 1:
remove news from 2011 and previous; point to the mailing list rather then
grehan, who is now less active; point to the wiki as a better reference of
currently supported systems.
---
en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml | 31 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml
index 5cc7ba23e7..62bf503b3e 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/platforms/ppc.xml
@@ -39,22 +39,22 @@
Tier 2 platform. That means it is
not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
- toolchain maintainers.
+ toolchain maintainers. However, it is supported by portmgr (package
+ building).
+
+ The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently
+ being maintained
+ on the wiki.
- - 05 January, 2011: Support for the Sony Playstation 3
- has been committed to SVN.
- - 13 July, 2010: Support for the powerpc64 architecture
- added.
- - 03 March, 2008: Support for Freescale®
- PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
- has been committed into CVS.
- - 27 February, 2008: FreeBSD 7.0 is the first
- release to officially support the FreeBSD/ppc port.
+ - 05 June, 2019: FreeBSD has been tested and seems
+ to work on the
+ Raptor
+ Blackbird.
@@ -96,16 +96,17 @@
- Peter Grehan is the project
- leader. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
- to know about the status of this project, check this page
- regularly or join the
- FreeBSD/ppc mailing list.
+ The FreeBSD/ppc mailing list is the main
+ resource.
+ The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently
+ being maintained
+ on the wiki.
+
The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World Apple machine (any Apple
machine with a built-in USB port), as well as the Sony Playstation 3. A
port to IBM pSeries hardware is in progress. People reported FreeBSD runs