From 79e6c20cec27bfc94557635946ad0b1e94e10af9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ftigeot Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:43:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] better emphasize i386 systems are legacy --- release36/index.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release36/index.mdwn b/release36/index.mdwn index 2e6064c8..6ffa4b19 100644 --- a/release36/index.mdwn +++ b/release36/index.mdwn @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ locales and libiconv work have brought DragonFly up to date on language support. ## Availability -Two release options are now available for 32-bit as well as for 64-bit. 64-bit installations are recommended if you do not need the Linux emulation layer. +Two release options are now available for 32-bit as well as for 64-bit x86 machines. 64-bit installations are recommended if you do not need the Linux emulation layer. 32-bit images are only required by legacy, non-64-bit capable hardware such as early Pentium 4 or Athlon based machines. * An ISO, to be burned to a physical CD or used as an image to install a virtual machine. * A bootable USB disk-key image. (minimum 2G USB stick needed) @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ For a list of per-commit changes, see the [3.6.0rc tag commit](http://lists.drag * i915/kms support up to Ivy Bridge chips (Xeon E3v2 / Core i 3000) * radeon/kms support (very new and still buggy, Xorg driver not enabled by default) * drm/kms is only expected to work on 64-bit x86_64/amd64 systems -* i386 systems are considered legacy and use an old xorg-server 1.7 based graphic stack by default +* 32-bit i386 systems use an old xorg-server 1.7 based graphic stack by default, better suited to 10-year old machines * Many issues fixed and new drivers added in the usb4bsd stack * A driver for the Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NICs has been added, oce(4) * I/O performance regression seen in VMware ESXi fixed -- 2.41.0