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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-17 09:25:11 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-17 09:25:11 +0000
commit992866d50243e49ac5d348aefb9e13c04303aee0 (patch)
tree7735cd7f8507b6d965eb5f71961b757cf18ece13 /distrib/notes/i386/hardware
parent7846de0caa516d0a12a6dcd92f07eb2a31f023e1 (diff)
grammar, consistency fixes, and typos;
ok miod@
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@@ -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.