docs/90351: [patch] Fix spelling mistake and misleading info in Alpha HW release notes
Gavin Atkinson
gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Tue Dec 13 20:50:05 UTC 2005
>Number: 90351
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Fix spelling mistake and misleading info in Alpha HW release notes
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 13 20:50:03 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gavin Atkinson
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 945testbox.york.ac.uk 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Dec 12 18:04:02 GMT 2005 root at 945testbox.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Accommodate and interchangeably are spelt incorrectly in the
Alpha Hardware release notes.
Also, when rendered, they suggest that the fxp(4) driver does not
work on FreeBSD in general. I have no idea if they still have issues on
Alpha, but I know they are good cards on other platforms at least :)
>How-To-Repeat:
Read http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-alpha.html
>Fix:
--- alpha-hwnotes.diff begins here ---
Index: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -u -r1.78 proc-alpha.sgml
--- src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml 2 Nov 2005 22:18:47 -0000 1.78
+++ src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml 13 Dec 2005 20:39:05 -0000
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
that. Kernel build times halved when I went to 32 Mbytes. Note that
the SRM console steals 2Mbyte from the total system memory (and keeps
it). For more serious work 128 Mbytes or more are recommended.
- Although Alpha machines typically can accomodate large to very large
+ Although Alpha machines typically can accommodate large to very large
physical memory sizes, &os; is limited to 1 or 2 Gbytes (dependent
on the core chipset) of RAM. This restriction is due to the
current implementation of the VM system.</para>
@@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@
power it on/off remotely, reset it etc. See also the description for
the RMC in the DS10 section of this document. RCM versus RMC is not a typo,
the various documentation I consulted used both acronyms
- interchangably. Note that if you want remote power on/off to function
+ interchangeably. Note that if you want remote power on/off to function
you need to connect a small DC adapter to the machine in order to have
the RCM logic powered. You need to supply 9-12V DC to the small inlet
located next to the keyboard connector.</para>
@@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@
driver). Some new SRM versions are known to recognize the Intel
8255x Ethernet chips as driven by the &os; &man.fxp.4; driver. But
beware: the &man.fxp.4; driver is reported not to work correctly
- with &os; (although it works excellently on &os;/x86).</para>
+ with &os;/alpha (although it works excellently on &os;/x86).</para>
<para>In general the SRM console emulates a VGA-compatibility mode
on PCI VGA cards. This is, however, not guaranteed to work by
--- alpha-hwnotes.diff ends here ---
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