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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.31  28-Sep-2022  charlotte Avoid dead link to the NVRAM FAQ in docs for sparc, too
 1.30  27-Nov-2019  uwe Undo the .Ss2 quoting hack, the macros can now handle it.
 1.29  27-Nov-2019  martin More cleanup:
- simplify TOC handling and remove arg limit (from uwe)
- use Lk with explicit anchor text in some places
- do not allow official release builds when we can not derive the
proper date from the buildid
 1.28  24-Nov-2019  uwe Quote long .Ss2 title to avoid troff's limitation.

Troff is limited to 9 macro parameters and this title is 10 words, so
we lose the last word here when we pass arguments around. We have
more titles like that but for now I wanted to commit only one just to
flag the problem.
 1.27  19-May-2015  snj branches: 1.27.16; 1.27.18;
- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes
 1.26  23-Apr-2009  snj branches: 1.26.26;
Various updates to the INSTALL notes in preparation for 5.0. Changes
are still to come.
 1.25  20-Nov-2008  jdc branches: 1.25.2;
Note root partition size limitations on certain sparc and sparc64 models
(taken from the boot(8) manual pages).
 1.24  07-Sep-2008  tsutsui branches: 1.24.2;
Suppress the whitespace after parenthesis.
 1.23  06-Sep-2008  tsutsui Fix warnings.
 1.22  12-Jun-2004  mbw branches: 1.22.10; 1.22.12; 1.22.20; 1.22.26; 1.22.30;
Mention that installer defaults to serial speed of 9600 8N1 and user might
want to pre-configure their system around that.
Closes PR 11946
 1.21  21-Oct-2003  mbw branches: 1.21.2;
update minimum disk requirements
 1.20  11-Jul-2002  scottr Replace "filesystem" with the correct phrase, "file system."
 1.19  30-Jun-2002  lukem clean up whitespace and formatting
 1.18  03-May-2002  mbw branches: 1.18.2;
add note about dead NVRAM (ethernet address is all F's) and link to FAQ
 1.17  29-Apr-2002  mbw add section describing how to boot from an SBUS card
change ".Dl ok Ic commands" into ".(disp/.disp) and ".No ok Ic commands"
since it actually uses a monospaced font in HTML
 1.16  24-Jul-2001  nra s/Asumming/Assuming/
 1.15  05-Nov-2000  pk Some factual & typographical corrections on the SCSI target mapping topic.
 1.14  03-Nov-2000  mbw fix some typos.
 1.13  01-Nov-2000  mbw hardware: fix a couple of typos
add ross sparc 20 clone
a little more info on sw device

prep: mention that can't boot if root partition is past first 2 GB of disk
refine wording of section on scsi id mappings

install: add a little more info to the tape booting section
 1.12  29-Oct-2000  lukem more work:
- use .Tn, .Bx, .Ul, .Key, .Sq, .Dq, .Li, .Dl, (etc) ... as appropriate
- be more consistent between various ports' install notes
- other cleanups
 1.11  22-Oct-2000  mbw minor fixes,
added info on how sun4 models deal with scsi targets
some typos caught
add info on how to break from automatically booting (i.e. enter ROM prompt)
 1.10  21-Oct-2000  mbw Major overhaul. Cleaned up a lot of explanations, clarified instructions,
provided more detail when necessary and removed extraneous instructions.

hardware: totally revamped to be more readable and include all known
supported hardware, now matches htdocs/Ports/sparc/hardware.html

install: new section on CD-ROM, netboot has instructions on setting up a
NetBSD server, removed disklabel instructions (miniroot/sysboot's
instructions are clear enough and have error-checking anyways)

prep: reorganized, put in cleaner explanation of SCSI target remapping on
OpenBOOT PROM 1 machines, put in instructions on how to figure out names
ROM uses for SCSI device, put in info about 100BaseTX network cards

upgrade: now points to ../common/upgrade
 1.9  10-Oct-2000  lukem major terraform (this is MUCH more than a rototill :-), including:
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...
 1.8  12-Jun-1999  pk branches: 1.8.8;
truely -> truly; PR 7762
 1.7  13-Jan-1999  ross Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html.
 1.6  09-Jan-1998  perry RCS Id Police.
 1.5  14-Jul-1997  pk Mention ifconfig(8)'s `media' parameter instead of `link[01]'.
 1.4  23-Nov-1996  pk Update and clarifications (addresses PR#2933).
 1.3  09-Oct-1996  jtc merge in 1.2 branch
 1.2  08-Oct-1995  pk branches: 1.2.6;
Start documenting 1.1 installation.
 1.1  25-Oct-1994  deraadt first cut
 1.2.6.2  02-Sep-1996  pk Note possibility of using `link[01]' on le network interfaces.
 1.2.6.1  28-Jun-1996  pk Update
 1.8.8.3  09-Nov-2000  tv Pullup 1.15 [pk]:
Some factual & typographical corrections on the SCSI target mapping topic.
 1.8.8.2  03-Nov-2000  tv Pullup 1.13 and 1.14 [mbw]:
mention that can't boot if root partition is past first 2 GB of disk
refine wording of section on scsi id mappings
 1.8.8.1  01-Nov-2000  tv Sync to HEAD as of 20001101 03:43 GMT [lukem]:
Complete rework of install notes for 1.5 from several authors.
 1.18.2.2  11-Jul-2002  thorpej pullup-1-6 ticket #469 (scottr).

Original log message:
Replace "filesystem" with the correct phrase, "file system."
 1.18.2.1  02-Jul-2002  lukem manually sync distrib/notes/** to -current, excluding pmppc (which isn't in 1.6)
 1.21.2.1  15-Jun-2004  he Pull up revision 1.22 (requested by mbw in ticket #487)
Mention that the installer defaults to serial setting of
9600 8N1, the user might want to prepare for that. Fixes
PR#11946.
 1.22.30.1  18-Sep-2008  wrstuden Sync with wrstuden-revivesa-base-2.
 1.22.26.2  05-Oct-2008  mjf Sync with HEAD.
 1.22.26.1  28-Sep-2008  mjf Sync with HEAD.
 1.22.20.1  14-Sep-2008  bouyer Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #1198):
distrib/notes/sandpoint/install: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/macppc/hardware: revision 1.45, 1.46
distrib/notes/next68k/prep: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/sun3/install: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE: revision 1.10, 1.11
distrib/notes/mvme68k/xfer: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/vax/install: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/common/contents: revision 1.142
distrib/notes/next68k/xfer: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revision 1.91
distrib/notes/alpha/install: revision 1.34
distrib/notes/mvme68k/install: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/hp300/prep: revision 1.23
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revision 1.92
distrib/notes/alpha/hardware: revision 1.15
distrib/notes/sparc64/install: revision 1.30
distrib/notes/cats/prep: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/sparc/hardware: revision 1.34
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.23, 1.24
distrib/notes/sparc/install: revision 1.55
distrib/notes/hpcmips/install: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.416
distrib/notes/amiga/prep: revision 1.27
distrib/notes/i386/hardware: revision 1.123
distrib/notes/evbppc/hardware: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/evbarm/prep: revision 1.9
distrib/notes/amiga/install: revision 1.34
distrib/notes/macppc/install: revision 1.37
distrib/notes/evbarm/install: revision 1.9
distrib/notes/sun2/install: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/sun2/install: revision 1.8
distrib/notes/mvme68k/prep: revision 1.14
distrib/notes/hp700/prep: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/mvme68k/hardware: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/atari/xfer: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade: revision 1.27
Cosmetics or mdoc warning fixes
 1.22.12.1  15-Sep-2008  skrll Sync with netbsd-4.
 1.22.10.1  14-Sep-2008  bouyer Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #1198):
distrib/notes/sandpoint/install: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/macppc/hardware: revision 1.45, 1.46
distrib/notes/next68k/prep: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/sun3/install: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE: revision 1.10, 1.11
distrib/notes/mvme68k/xfer: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/vax/install: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/common/contents: revision 1.142
distrib/notes/next68k/xfer: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revision 1.91
distrib/notes/alpha/install: revision 1.34
distrib/notes/mvme68k/install: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/hp300/prep: revision 1.23
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revision 1.92
distrib/notes/alpha/hardware: revision 1.15
distrib/notes/sparc64/install: revision 1.30
distrib/notes/cats/prep: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/sparc/hardware: revision 1.34
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.23, 1.24
distrib/notes/sparc/install: revision 1.55
distrib/notes/hpcmips/install: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.416
distrib/notes/amiga/prep: revision 1.27
distrib/notes/i386/hardware: revision 1.123
distrib/notes/evbppc/hardware: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/evbarm/prep: revision 1.9
distrib/notes/amiga/install: revision 1.34
distrib/notes/macppc/install: revision 1.37
distrib/notes/evbarm/install: revision 1.9
distrib/notes/sun2/install: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/sun2/install: revision 1.8
distrib/notes/mvme68k/prep: revision 1.14
distrib/notes/hp700/prep: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/mvme68k/hardware: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/atari/xfer: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade: revision 1.27
Cosmetics or mdoc warning fixes
 1.24.2.2  25-Apr-2009  snj Pull up following revision(s) (requested by rmind in ticket #728):
distrib/alpha/README.files: revision 1.14
distrib/notes/acorn26/upgrade: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/acorn32/hardware: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/acorn32/prep: revision 1.14
distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/alpha/hardware: revisions 1.16-1.17
distrib/notes/alpha/install: revisions 1.35-1.37
distrib/notes/amd64/prep: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/amiga/hardware: revision 1.46
distrib/notes/amiga/install: revision 1.35
distrib/notes/amiga/prep: revision 1.28
distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade: revision 1.28
distrib/notes/arc/prep: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/atari/hardware: revision 1.22
distrib/notes/atari/prep: revision 1.13
distrib/notes/cats/hardware: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/cats/prep: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/cats/upgrade: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/common/contents: revisions 1.150-1.155
distrib/notes/common/legal.common: revision 1.52
distrib/notes/common/main: revisions 1.444-1.446
distrib/notes/common/postinstall: revisions 1.73, 1.74
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revisions 1.97, 1.98
distrib/notes/common/upgrade: revisions 1.27, 1.28
distrib/notes/common/xfer: revisions 1.64-1.66
distrib/notes/evbarm/prep: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/evbarm/upgrade: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/evbppc/hardware: revision 1.5
distrib/notes/evbppc/upgrade: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/hp300/prep: revision 1.24
distrib/notes/i386/upgrade: revision 1.23
distrib/notes/i386/prep: revision 1.14
distrib/notes/mac68k/hardware: revision 1.24
distrib/notes/mac68k/prep: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/mac68k/upgrade: revision 1.21
distrib/notes/mac68k/xfer: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/macppc/prep: revisions 1.43, 1.44
distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE: revision 1.13
distrib/notes/macppc/hardware: revision 1.47
distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE: revision 1.12
distrib/notes/mvme68k/hardware: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/mvme68k/install: revision 1.21
distrib/notes/next68k/prep: revision 1.8
distrib/notes/pmax/hardware: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/pmax/install: revision 1.41
distrib/notes/sgimips/hardware: revision 1.14
distrib/notes/sgimips/prep: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/shark/install: revision 1.5
distrib/notes/sparc/hardware: revisions 1.35, 1.36
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.26
distrib/notes/sparc/upgrade: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/sparc64/prep: revision 1.15
distrib/notes/sun2/hardware: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/sun3/hardware: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/vax/hardware: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/vax/install: revision 1.18
distrib/notes/vax/prep: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/xen/xfer: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/x68k/hardware: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/x68k/prep: revision 1.9
Update release notes.
 1.24.2.1  02-Dec-2008  snj Pull up following revision(s) (requested by jdc in ticket #159):
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.25
distrib/notes/sparc64/prep: revision 1.13
Note root partition size limitations on certain sparc and sparc64 models
(taken from the boot(8) manual pages).
 1.25.2.1  13-May-2009  jym Sync with HEAD.

Third (and last) commit. See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2009/05/13/msg221222.html
 1.26.26.1  24-May-2015  martin Pull up following revision(s) (requested by snj in ticket #799):
distrib/notes/Makefile.inc: revision 1.43
distrib/notes/acorn26/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/acorn26/legal: delete
distrib/notes/acorn32/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/acorn32/hardware: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/acorn32/legal: delete
distrib/notes/acorn32/prep: revision 1.15
distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS: revision 1.23
distrib/notes/alpha/contents: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/alpha/hardware: revision 1.18
distrib/notes/alpha/legal: delete
distrib/notes/amd64/contents: revisions 1.4, 1.5
distrib/notes/amd64/legal: delete
distrib/notes/amiga/contents: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/amiga/legal: delete
distrib/notes/arc/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/arc/legal: delete
distrib/notes/atari/contents: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/atari/legal: delete
distrib/notes/bebox/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/bebox/hardware: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/bebox/legal: delete
distrib/notes/cats/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/cats/legal: delete
distrib/notes/common/legal.common: revisions 1.93-1.96
distrib/notes/common/list-setsizes.sh: delete
distrib/notes/common/macros: revisions 1.41, 1.42
distrib/notes/common/main: revisions 1.519-1.521
distrib/notes/common/netboot: revision 1.36
distrib/notes/common/postinstall: revision 1.80, 1.81
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revisions 1.105, 1.106
distrib/notes/common/upgrade: revisions 1.29, 1.30
distrib/notes/common/xfer: revision 1.74
distrib/notes/emips/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/emips/hardware: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/emips/install: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/emips/legal: delete
distrib/notes/evbarm/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/evbarm/legal: delete
distrib/notes/evbppc/contents: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/evbppc/legal: delete
distrib/notes/ews4800mips/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/ews4800mips/legal: delete
distrib/notes/hp300/contents: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/hp300/legal: delete
distrib/notes/hpcarm/contents: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/hpcarm/legal: delete
distrib/notes/hpcmips/contents: revision 1.10
distrib/notes/hpcmips/legal: delete
distrib/notes/hpcsh/contents: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/hpcsh/legal: delete
distrib/notes/hppa/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/hppa/legal: delete
distrib/notes/i386/contents: revision 1.29
distrib/notes/i386/legal: delete
distrib/notes/landisk/contents: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/landisk/legal: delete
distrib/notes/mac68k/contents: revision 1.20
distrib/notes/mac68k/hardware: revision 1.25
distrib/notes/mac68k/legal: delete
distrib/notes/mac68k/prep: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/macppc/contents: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/macppc/hardware: revision 1.48
distrib/notes/macppc/legal: delete
distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE: revision 1.18
distrib/notes/mmeye/contents: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/mmeye/legal: delete
distrib/notes/mvme68k/contents: revision 1.13
distrib/notes/mvme68k/legal: delete
distrib/notes/mvme68k/xfer: revision 1.18
distrib/notes/news68k/contents: revision 1.6
distrib/notes/news68k/legal: delete
distrib/notes/newsmips/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/newsmips/legal: delete
distrib/notes/next68k/contents: revision 1.7
distrib/notes/next68k/legal: delete
distrib/notes/ofppc/contents: revision 1.3
distrib/notes/ofppc/legal: delete
distrib/notes/pmax/contents: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/pmax/hardware: revision 1.18
distrib/notes/pmax/legal: delete
distrib/notes/prep/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/prep/hardware: revision 1.5
distrib/notes/prep/legal: delete
distrib/notes/prep/upgrade: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/rs6000/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/rs6000/legal: delete
distrib/notes/sandpoint/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/sandpoint/legal: delete
distrib/notes/sgimips/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/sgimips/legal: delete
distrib/notes/shark/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/shark/legal: delete
distrib/notes/sparc/contents: revision 1.21
distrib/notes/sparc/hardware: revision 1.37
distrib/notes/sparc/legal: delete
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.27
distrib/notes/sparc64/Makefile: revision 1.4
distrib/notes/sparc64/contents: revision 1.5
distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware: revision 1.28
distrib/notes/sparc64/legal: delete
distrib/notes/sun2/contents: revision 1.2
distrib/notes/sun2/legal: delete
distrib/notes/sun3/contents: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/sun3/legal: delete
distrib/notes/vax/contents: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/vax/hardware: revision 1.11
distrib/notes/vax/legal: delete
distrib/notes/x68k/contents: revision 1.17
distrib/notes/x68k/hardware: revision 1.18
distrib/notes/x68k/legal: delete
distrib/notes/xen/legal: delete
Remove reference to a 14 year old IP address for ftp.NetBSD.org.
This is not a joke.
--
mention etcupdate and reorder a bit
--
first pass de-suckification for 2015. modernize content a bit, fix dirty
rotten lies, improve wording, sync legalese with reality, yada yada yada.
--
This product includes software developed by Yasushi Yamasaki.
--
- update upgrade issues:
+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes
--
finish removing the set size stuff, which was thrown out four years ago.
--
merge port-specific legal sections into the common file. most of these
entries were already in the common file, and it's a pain to maintain
them separately.
--
don't look for now-gone sparc/legal
--
restore rcsid accidentally deleted in previous
--
bah. this time without a typo.
 1.27.18.1  27-Nov-2019  msaitoh Pull up following revision(s) (requested by martin in ticket #489):
distrib/notes/Makefile.inc: revision 1.46
distrib/notes/common/postinstall: revision 1.86
distrib/notes/sparc64/prep: revision 1.16
distrib/notes/common/netboot: revision 1.38
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.555
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.556
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.557
distrib/notes/common/macros: revision 1.44
distrib/notes/common/sysinst: revision 1.110
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.28
distrib/notes/sparc/prep: revision 1.29
distrib/notes/common/list-portmasters.pl: file removal
Remove list-portmasters.pl script.
We dropped that list from "main" some time ago.
Quote long .Ss2 title to avoid troff's limitation.
Troff is limited to 9 macro parameters and this title is 10 words, so
we lose the last word here when we pass arguments around. We have
more titles like that but for now I wanted to commit only one just to
flag the problem.
More cleanup:
- simplify TOC handling and remove arg limit (from uwe)
- use Lk with explicit anchor text in some places
- do not allow official release builds when we can not derive the
proper date from the buildid
Add "Oxford comma"
Improve heading a bit. While here, use quotes to group some of the
words to avoid the 9-arg limitation of .Ss
 1.27.16.1  08-Apr-2020  martin Merge changes from current as of 20200406

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