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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-03-17 09:25:11 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-03-17 09:25:11 +0000 |
commit | 992866d50243e49ac5d348aefb9e13c04303aee0 (patch) | |
tree | 7735cd7f8507b6d965eb5f71961b757cf18ece13 /distrib/notes/i386/hardware | |
parent | 7846de0caa516d0a12a6dcd92f07eb2a31f023e1 (diff) |
grammar, consistency fixes, and typos;
ok miod@
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-rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/i386/hardware | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware index 8caa82c2726..ed61f7111c4 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.145 2004/03/16 08:25:00 jmc Exp $ -OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV works across a broad range of standard PC's and +dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.146 2004/03/17 09:25:09 jmc Exp $ +OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV works across a broad range of standard PCs and clones, with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architectures. It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulties on most current products. The cases where problems may be encountered are -typically older proprietary PC's, laptops or specialized server boxes +typically older proprietary PCs, laptops, or specialized server boxes that rely on a custom BIOS to paper over implementation differences. OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Supported hardware {:-include-:}: Entropy Sources Interrupt latency collection from many devices Intel 82802 random number generator found on i810, i815, - i820, i840, i850 and i860 based systems. + i820, i840, i850, and i860 based systems. Disk Controllers Floppy controllers. ISA MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers. @@ -100,11 +100,11 @@ Supported hardware {:-include-:}: Adaptec AIC-7770-based boards, including the Adaptec AHA-274x and AHA-284x families) [C] Adaptec AHA-[23]94x[W] cards and some on-board PCI designs - using the AIC7870 and AIC7880 chips. [C] + using the AIC7870 and AIC7880 chips [C] Adaptec AHA-[23]94xU[2W] cards and some on-board PCI designs using the AIC789[01], AIC7895, AIC789[67] chips [C] Adaptec AIC-789[29] chips and products like the - AHA-29160 based upon it which do 160MB/sec SCSI. [C] + AHA-29160 based upon it which do 160MB/sec SCSI [C] (However, the 7899G card is currently not supported with more than one device attached) AdvanSys 'U', 'UW', 'U2W' and 'U160' PCI SCSI @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ IsoLan, NE2100, and DEPCA Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 ex0 0x320 5 -PCI ethernet boards need to have an interrupt, either assigned in your +PCI Ethernet boards need to have an interrupt, either assigned in your PCI BIOS, or autoconfigured. Hardware not listed in the above table doesn't need any specific @@ -947,8 +947,8 @@ Special care for PCI BIOS: Sometimes specifications are unclear about interfaces and/or data validation. These all cause our driver for PCI BIOS to misbehave in more or - less fatal ways, such as panics on pcibios0 configuration or pci - device attachments, or unconfigured pci devices due to irq and/or + less fatal ways, such as panics on pcibios0 configuration or PCI + device attachments, or unconfigured PCI devices due to IRQ and/or I/O address misconfiguration. Fast workaround @@ -970,12 +970,12 @@ Special care for PCI BIOS: UKC> quit This will disable the pcibios0 attachment. - Sometimes, especially when hangs occur on particular pci device - attachments, moving pci cards into a different slot helps. + Sometimes, especially when hangs occur on particular PCI device + attachments, moving PCI cards into a different slot helps. Fixing for good Try to gather dmesg output from the failing configuration, for - example by using a serial console (see boot(8)) and send it to + example by using a serial console (see boot(8)), and send it to <mickey@OpenBSD.org> along with descriptions of your hardware setup. Alternatively, dig in the code and fix problems. |