CMUCL commit: cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www (platforms.html)

[Raymond Toy]

    Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 09:38:34
  Author: rtoy
    Path: /project/cmucl/cvsroot/cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www

Modified: platforms.html

o Add note that Solaris 8 builds are no longer regularly provided.
o NetBSD is still maintained.


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 platforms.html |   21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


Index: cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www/platforms.html
diff -u cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www/platforms.html:1.11 cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www/platforms.html:1.12
--- cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www/platforms.html:1.11	Sun Jan 24 11:12:45 2010
+++ cmucl-www/cmucl-www/www/platforms.html	Wed Sep  1 09:38:34 2010
@@ -86,13 +86,26 @@
 </dd>
 
 <dt> Solaris/SPARC </dt>
-<dd> the 19f binaries should work with Solaris 8 or later (also known
+<dd> <p>The 19f binaries should work with Solaris 8 or later (also known
      as Solaris 2.8). They require an UltraSPARC processor. If you
      have an ancient SPARC machine, you can get the non-v9 version of
      the 18e release. If you have an UltraSPARC the command
      <tt>uname -m</tt> will say <tt>sun4u</tt>, if you have an
      older machine such as a SparcStation it will probably say
-     <tt>sun4m</tt>. </dd>
+     <tt>sun4m</tt>. </p>
+     
+     <p>
+     Note that starting with the 2010-02 snapshot, Solaris 8 builds
+     are being dropped in favor of Solaris 10 builds.  The Solaris 10
+     builds will not run on Solaris 8, but Solaris 8 builds will run
+     just fine on Solaris 10.  However, Solaris 8 builds may be
+     available. </p>
+</dd>
+
+<dt> NetBSD/x86 </dt>
+<dd> The 19c release binaries should work on any i586 or better processor.
+     The 19c binaries should work with NetBSD releases xx and yy. </dd>
+
 </dl>
 
 <p> The following platforms are not supported by the current CMUCL release,
@@ -105,10 +118,6 @@
 access to a ppc running MacOS X anymore.
 </dd>
 
-<dt> NetBSD/x86 </dt>
-<dd> The 19c release binaries should work on any i586 or better processor.
-     The 19c binaries should work with NetBSD releases xx and yy. </dd>
-
 <dt> OpenBSD/x86 </dt>
 <dd> There are currently no 19c binaries for OpenBSD (it seems that address
      space randomization techniques introduced with recent versions of