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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2007-07-26 00:36:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2007-07-26 00:36:32 +0000 |
| commit | 7afb7da18c66015e9f428dd67f75b16cb6aeb91f (patch) | |
| tree | 9c550e6ac492b31bcee8634046a031f7b8617017 /en/hardware/supported | |
| parent | aca504b3950c525b8e61dde1445623174dd47f65 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-7afb7da18c66015e9f428dd67f75b16cb6aeb91f.zip | |
* Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that
booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
Diffstat (limited to 'en/hardware/supported')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/supported/sparc.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/sparc.xml b/en/hardware/supported/sparc.xml index 31ffeca6a..3e83fddac 100644 --- a/en/hardware/supported/sparc.xml +++ b/en/hardware/supported/sparc.xml @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ level of support may be expected for each of them. </para> <variablelist> -<varlistentry> +<varlistentry condition="etch"> <term>sun4, sun4c, sun4d</term> <listitem><para> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ SPARCstation page</ulink>. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> -<varlistentry> +<varlistentry condition="etch"> <term>sun4m</term> <listitem><para> @@ -46,6 +46,25 @@ machines, although it will activate and use only the first CPU. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> +<varlistentry condition="lenny"> +<term>sun4, sun4c, sun4d, sun4m</term> + +<listitem><para> + +None of these 32-bit sparc subarchitectures (sparc32) is supported. For a +complete list of machines belonging to these subarchitectures, please consult +the <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation">Wikipedia +SPARCstation page</ulink>. + +</para><para> + +The last Debian release to support sparc32 was Etch, but even then only +for sun4m systems. Support for the other 32-bits subarchitectures had +already been discontinued after earlier releases. + +</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> + <varlistentry> <term>sun4u</term> |