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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2009-09-16 11:35:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2009-09-16 11:35:34 +0000 |
| commit | cc4c1e57fb8880d91395e8e6dc087c7e95c42223 (patch) | |
| tree | f5363039877df9d7ea0e6b73c330e0b109de7773 | |
| parent | ea8737f70fe056e647ca56c7bb828bb2163bcd13 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-cc4c1e57fb8880d91395e8e6dc087c7e95c42223.zip | |
Add a caution against using IA64 for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml | 13 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 84f50a46c..6b85eb6ab 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ installation-guide (2009xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #545584. + * Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64 + for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems. -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:01:59 +0200 diff --git a/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml b/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml index 1d02bd440..6f8f784e6 100644 --- a/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml +++ b/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml @@ -186,7 +186,18 @@ for information on any of the other Debian-supported architectures take a look at the <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/ports/">Debian-Ports</ulink> pages. -</para><para condition="new-arch"> +</para> +<caution arch="ia64"><para> + +The &arch-title; architecture only supports Intel Itanium processors +and not the much more common 64-bit processors from the EM64T family +(including e.g. the Pentium D and the Core2 Duo). Those +systems are supported by the <emphasis>amd64</emphasis> architecture +or, if you prefer a 32-bit userland, the <emphasis>i386</emphasis> +architecture. + +</para></caution> +<para condition="new-arch"> This is the first official release of &debian; for the &arch-title; architecture. We feel that it has proven itself sufficiently to be |