information about motherboards for an amd64 platform and how well FreeBSD
is running on them. Please direct your submissions directly to this file,
to pav or flz, or to www category in GNATS. I expect this page to grow
quickly.
This mini-project was inspired by endless stream of posts on freebsd-amd64
list asking for hardware suggestions.
Created by: flz, mostly
Approved by: simon
- Make trademark symbols more correct.
- Don't explicly list supported CPU's but point to the Hardware Notes
to avoid duplication.
- Don't make 80386 deprication notice bold, since it's not that
important.
a "port".
Add HP and eMachines (the top three sellers) instead of just mentioning
Dell since Dell doesn't sell AMD CPU's, but the sentance implied they did.
Add Clackamas Technology and Yamhill. Remove references that Intel
used to call EM64T "64-bit extension technology" as that is what I've
recently seen Intel call it on banners in their booth at trade shows.
- Refer to 386 CPUs as 80386 instead of i386 since i386 is commonly used
as the architecture name rather than a specific processor.
- Clarify that 5.x also supports 80386's, just not in GENERIC.
- Note that SMP only works on Pentium-class CPUs and higher (we don't
support systems with multiple 486's and external APICs). Also, tweak
the wording to avoid saying 'supported' twice in a row.
so they can be dropped from the "netboot only" section.
Add news entries for the import of the esp, auxio, and CS4231 drivers.
Submitted by: "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@tamu.edu> (except the "news")
1. It allows us to put the McKinley die in the upper right corner of
the page and thus make it part of the header. This is aesthetically
more pleasing.
2. It makes it easier for us to add news entries.
Aside for point 1, the page is still the same as the previous index.
annotated photomicrograph of the Merced die to the todo page. The
images were found on the web and were not explicitly copyrighted.
Pointed out by: pav@
annotated photomicrograph of the Merced die to the todo page. The
images were found on the web and were not explicitly copyrighted.
If I'm allowed a guess: the McKinley photomicrograph comes from HP
and the Merced photomicrograph comes from Intel.
- Change Compaq AlphaServer to HP AlphaServer.
- Updated the link to the AlphaServer page.
- Add link to the AlphaStation workstation page.
Submitted by: Linh Pham <question@closedsrc.org>
PR: docs/58932
