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Bug#340298: Patch to clarify the Ports page



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Hello,

Here is a patch to clarify which port EM64T users should use as this
seems to generate a lot of confusion for Intel users who try (and fail)
to use IA64 images.

Index: index.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/ports/index.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -r1.59 index.wml
--- index.wml   14 Oct 2005 16:57:16 -0000      1.59
+++ index.wml   17 Dec 2005 14:02:32 -0000
@@ -113,7 +113,10 @@
 <h3><a href="ia64/">IA-64 (&ldquo;ia64&rdquo;)</a></h3>
 <p>
  First officially released with Debian 3.0.
- This is a port to Intel's 64-bit architecture.
+ This is a port to the first Intel's 64-bit architecture. Note: this
+ should <em>not</em> be confused with the latest Intel 64-bit extensions
+ for Pentium 4 and Celeron, called EM64T. For the later, see the <a
+ href="amd64/">AMD64</a> pages.
 </p>

 <h3><a href="s390/">S/390 (&ldquo;s390&rdquo;)</a></h3>
@@ -130,7 +133,8 @@
 <h3><a href="amd64/">AMD64</a></h3>
 <p>
  Port to the 64 bit AMD64 (Opteron) processors. The goal is to
- support both 32bit- and 64bit-userland on this architecture.
+ support both 32bit- and 64bit-userland on this architecture. This is
+ also used for Intel EM64T architecture.
 </p>

 <h3><a href="http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/";>ppc64</a></h3>

Greeting,


Fred



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