svn commit: r49291 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 16 21:53:46 UTC 2016
On 8/16/16 6:18 AM, Brad Davis wrote:
> Author: brd
> Date: Tue Aug 16 13:18:00 2016
> New Revision: 49291
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49291
>
> Log:
> Update the reference 64-bit arch and remove a blurb about ia64 vs sparc64.
>
> Reported by: mat
> Reviewed by: bcr
This needs a bit more work. This change is ok (sparc64 simply isn't
prevelant), but it is not as simple a change as this commit implies.
> Modified:
> head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Tue Aug 16 12:29:51 2016 (r49290)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.xml Tue Aug 16 13:18:00 2016 (r49291)
> @@ -3614,24 +3614,20 @@ Relnotes: yes</programlisting>
>
> <blockquote>
> <para>Our 32-bit reference platform is &arch.i386;, and our
> - 64-bit reference platform is &arch.sparc64;. Major design
> + 64-bit reference platform is &arch.amd64;. Major design
> work (including major API and ABI changes) must prove
> itself on at least one 32-bit and at least one 64-bit
> platform, preferably the primary reference platforms,
> before it may be committed to the source tree.</para>
> </blockquote>
>
> - <para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.sparc64; platforms were chosen
> + <para>The &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64; platforms were chosen
> due to being more readily available to developers and as
> representatives of more diverse processor and system designs -
> big versus little endian, register file versus register stack,
> different DMA and cache implementations, hardware page tables
> versus software TLB management etc.</para>
None of these differences are now true. Both are little endian,
both use a register file, both use the same DMA and cache implementation,
and both use hardware page tables. I think you need to axe this entire
paragraph.
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John Baldwin
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