svn commit: r191501 - stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware

[Marius Strobl]

Author: marius
Date: Sat Apr 25 23:08:11 2009
New Revision: 191501
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/191501

Log:
  MFC: r191491, r191492
  
  Sync the sparc64 hardware notes with reality, mainly regarding support
  of sun4u-machines based on USIII and beyond in 7.2-RELEASE.
  
  Approved by:	re (blackend)

Modified:
  stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml

Modified: stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml	Sat Apr 25 23:02:57 2009	(r191500)
+++ stable/7/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/article.sgml	Sat Apr 25 23:08:11 2009	(r191501)
@@ -325,9 +325,13 @@
 
   <para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor.</para>
 
-  <para>In general, &os;/&arch.sparc64; systems must use serial consoles.
-    While it is possible to boot or install a system using the
-    OpenFirmware console, the console device is not usable.</para>
+  <para>When using the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
+    &os;/&arch.sparc64; systems not equipped with a framebuffer
+    supported by the &man.creator.4; (&sun; Creator, &sun; Creator3D
+    and &sun; Elite3D) or &man.machfb.4; (&sun; PGX and &sun; PGX64
+    as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example
+    &sun.blade; 100, &sun.blade; 150, &sun.ultra; 5 and &sun.ultra; 10)
+    driver must use the serial console.</para>
 
   <para>If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not have
     been tested with &os; &release.current;.  We encourage you to
@@ -343,6 +347,9 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>&sun.blade; 150</para>
         </listitem>
+ 	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.enterprise; 100</para>
+	</listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>&sun.enterprise; 220R</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -385,6 +392,12 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>&netra; X1</para>
         </listitem>
+ 	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sparcengine; Ultra AX1105</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sparcengine; Ultra AXe</para>
+	</listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>&sparcengine; Ultra AXi</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -415,10 +428,16 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>&sun.ultra; 80</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>&sun.ultra; 450</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 
-    <para>The following systems are partially supported by &os;.  In particular
-      the onboard SCSI controller in sbus systems is not supported.</para>
+  <para>The following systems are partially supported by &os;.  In
+    particular the fibre channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not
+    supported.  However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI controller
+    supported by the &man.esp.4 driver (&sun; ESP SCSI, &sun; FAS Fast-SCSI
+    and &sun; FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).</para>
 
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
@@ -429,16 +448,48 @@
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 
-    <para>The following systems are not supported by &os;.  This may be due
-      to lack of processor support (&ultrasparc; III), due to a quirk in the
-      system design that makes &os; unstable, or due to lack of support for
-      sufficient onboard devices to make &os; generally useful.</para>
+  <para>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64; systems based on
+    &ultrasparc; III and beyond are also supported by &os, which includes
+    the following known working systems:</para>
 
       <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>All systems containing &ultrasparc; III processor(s).</para>
-        </listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.blade; 1000</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.blade; 1500</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.blade; 2000</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.fire; 280R</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.fire; V210</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.fire; V440 (except for the on-board NICs)</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.fire; V880</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&netra; 20/&netra; T4</para>
+	</listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>The following &ultrasparc; IIIi systems are not tested but
+    believed to be also supported by &os:</para>
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.fire; V125</para>
+	</listitem>
+	<listitem>
+	  <para>&sun.fire; V240</para>
+ 	</listitem>
+       </itemizedlist>
 </sect2>
 
 </sect1>
@@ -1432,8 +1483,6 @@
     <para>[&arch.pc98;] Power Management Controller of NEC PC-98 Note (pmc
     driver)</para>
 
-    <para>[&arch.sparc64;] OpenFirmware console (ofwcons driver)</para>
-
   </sect2>
 </sect1>