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--- a/nl/hardware/hardware-supported.xml
+++ b/nl/hardware/hardware-supported.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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-<!-- original version: 56244 untranslated -->
+<!-- original version: 56248 untranslated -->
<sect1 id="hardware-supported">
<title>Supported Hardware</title>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ information can be found.
<sect2><title>Supported Architectures</title>
<para>
-Debian &release; supports twelve major architectures and several
+Debian &release; supports eleven major architectures and several
variations of each architecture known as <quote>flavors</quote>.
</para><para>
@@ -64,10 +64,14 @@ variations of each architecture known as <quote>flavors</quote>.
<row>
<entry morerows="4">ARM</entry>
- <entry morerows="4">arm</entry>
+ <entry morerows="1">arm</entry>
<entry>Netwinder and CATS</entry>
<entry>netwinder</entry>
</row><row>
+ <entry>Versatile</entry>
+ <entry>versatile</entry>
+</row><row>
+ <entry morerows="2">arm and armel</entry>
<entry>Intel IOP32x</entry>
<entry>iop32x</entry>
</row><row>
@@ -76,9 +80,6 @@ variations of each architecture known as <quote>flavors</quote>.
</row><row>
<entry>Marvell Orion</entry>
<entry>orion5x</entry>
-</row><row>
- <entry>Versatile</entry>
- <entry>versatile</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -139,32 +140,29 @@ variations of each architecture known as <quote>flavors</quote>.
<entry>sb1a-bcm91480b</entry>
</row>
-<row>
+<row arch="m68k">
<entry morerows="5">Motorola 680x0</entry>
<entry morerows="5">m68k</entry>
<entry>Atari</entry>
<entry>atari</entry>
-</row><row>
+</row><row arch="m68k">
<entry>Amiga</entry>
<entry>amiga</entry>
-</row><row>
+</row><row arch="m68k">
<entry>68k Macintosh</entry>
<entry>mac</entry>
-</row><row>
+</row><row arch="m68k">
<entry morerows="2">VME</entry>
<entry>bvme6000</entry>
-</row><row>
+</row><row arch="m68k">
<entry>mvme147</entry>
-</row><row>
+</row><row arch="m68k">
<entry>mvme16x</entry>
</row>
<row>
- <entry morerows="2">IBM/Motorola PowerPC</entry>
- <entry morerows="2">powerpc</entry>
- <entry>CHRP</entry>
- <entry>chrp</entry>
-</row><row>
+ <entry morerows="1">IBM/Motorola PowerPC</entry>
+ <entry morerows="1">powerpc</entry>
<entry>PowerMac</entry>
<entry>pmac</entry>
</row><row>
@@ -234,10 +232,11 @@ as well.
<sect2 arch="x86" id="laptops"><title>Laptops</title>
<para>
-Laptops are also supported. Laptops are often specialized or contain
-proprietary hardware. To see if your particular laptop works well
-with GNU/Linux, see the
-<ulink url="&url-x86-laptop;">Linux Laptop pages</ulink>
+Laptops are also supported and nowadays most laptops work out of the box.
+In case a laptop contains specialized or proprietary hardware, some specific
+functions may not be supported. To see if your particular laptop works well
+with GNU/Linux, see for example the
+<ulink url="&url-x86-laptop;">Linux Laptop pages</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -248,9 +247,10 @@ with GNU/Linux, see the
Multiprocessor support &mdash; also called <quote>symmetric multiprocessing</quote>
or SMP &mdash; is available for this architecture. The standard Debian
-&release; kernel image was compiled with SMP support. This should not
-prevent installation, since the SMP kernel should boot on non-SMP systems;
-the kernel will simply cause a bit more overhead.
+&release; kernel image has been compiled with SMP support. The standard
+kernel is also usable on non-SMP systems, but has a slight overhead which
+will cause a small reduction in performance. For normal system use this
+will hardly be noticable.
</para><para>
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ section of the kernel config.
Multiprocessor support &mdash; also called <quote>symmetric
multiprocessing</quote> or SMP &mdash; is available for this architecture.
-The standard Debian &release; kernel image was compiled with
+The standard Debian &release; kernel image has been compiled with
<firstterm>SMP-alternatives</firstterm> support. This means that the kernel
will detect the number of processors (or processor cores) and will
automatically deactivate SMP on uniprocessor systems.
@@ -401,3 +401,34 @@ system.
&supported-peripherals.xml;
</sect1>
+
+ <sect1 arch="not-s390" id="hardware-firmware">
+ <title>Devices Requiring Firmware</title>
+<para>
+
+Besides the availability of a device driver some hardware also requires
+so-called <firstterm>firmware</firstterm> or <firstterm>microcode</firstterm>
+to be loaded into the device before it can become operational. This is most
+common for network interface cards (especially wireless NICs), but for example
+some USB devices and even some hard disk controllers also require firmware.
+
+</para><para>
+
+In most cases firmware is non-free according to the criteria used by the
+&debian; project and thus cannot be included in the main distribution
+or in the installation system. If the device driver itself is included in
+the distribution and if &debian; legally can distribute the firmware,
+it will often be available as a separate package from the non-free section
+of the archive.
+
+</para><para>
+
+However, this does not mean that such hardware cannot be used during an
+installation. Starting with &debian; 5.0 the &d-i; supports loading
+firmware files or packages containing firmware from a removable medium,
+such as a floppy disk or USB stick.
+See <xref linkend="loading-firmware"/> for detailed information on how to
+load firmware files or packages during the installation.
+
+</para>
+ </sect1>