Bug#340298: Patch to clarify the Ports page
tags 340298 patch
thanks
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
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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 (“ia64”)</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 (“s390”)</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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