sgml entities for CPU architectures?
Ben Kaduk
minimarmot at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 17:05:54 UTC 2007
On 9/22/07, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>
> BK> > >> I'm updating my patch to the FAQ (docs/115000) for danger@'s
> BK> > >> (somewhat) new daily snapshot
> BK> > >> builds, which are specific to x86 and amd64. Should I just use literals for
> BK> > >> these architectures, or are the entity-ified somewhere that I haven't found yet?
[snip]
> I can see in share/sgml/freebsd.ent:
>
> <!-- Entities for various architectures. These are to be used
> only for denoting a variant of FreeBSD for a particular
> architecture (e.g. &os;/&arch.i386;). Other entities should
> be used when referring generically to an architecture,
> particularly because entities such as &i386; properly
> denote trademarks and registered trademarks. -->
> <!ENTITY arch.alpha "alpha">
> <!ENTITY arch.amd64 "amd64">
> <!ENTITY arch.arm "arm">
> <!ENTITY arch.i386 "i386">
> <!ENTITY arch.ia64 "ia64">
> <!ENTITY arch.pc98 "pc98">
> <!ENTITY arch.powerpc "powerpc">
> <!ENTITY arch.sparc64 "sparc64">
> <!ENTITY arch.sun4v "sun4v">
>
> This is from rev 1.93 of freebsd.ent:
>
> date: 2007/08/11 19:17:41; author: bmah; state: Exp; lines: +15 -0
> Add &arch.*; entities for the various architectures. These
> should only be used when referring to a version of FreeBSD on
> a specific architecture, e.g. &os;/&arch.i386;. Use other,
> already existing entities (such as &i386;) when talking generically
> about an architecture, in order to attribute trademarks correctly.
>
>
Thanks, Dmitry. These seem reasonable to describe danger@'s daily
builds of FreeBSD-i386 and FreeBSD-amd64.
I'm just surprised that I didn't see them before; I thought I looked
in share/sgml/
-Ben Kaduk
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