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Update text related to Intel CPU support and Apple hardware support.

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@ -178,9 +178,7 @@
the &a.smp; may yield some clues.</para>
<para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) support
on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the
<literal>options&nbsp;SMP</literal> feature enabled will
automatically detect the additional logical processors. The
on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. The
default &os; scheduler treats the logical processors the same
as additional physical processors; in other words, no attempt
is made to optimize scheduling decisions given the shared
@ -303,63 +301,12 @@
<sect2 xml:id="proc-powerpc">
<title>powerpc</title>
<para>This section describes the systems currently known to be
supported by &os; on the PowerPC platform. This list is not
exhaustive.</para>
<para>All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are supported,
as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines,
including KVM on POWER7</para>
<para>In general, all New World architecture Apple hardware
is supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple
machines.</para>
<para>All systems listed below are fully supported, with the
exception that software fan control is currently missing on
some Power Macintosh G5 models. SMP is supported on all systems
with more than 1 processor.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Apple iMac G3</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple iMac G4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple iMac G5</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple Power Macintosh G3 (Blue &amp; White)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple Power Macintosh G4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple Power Macintosh G5</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple iBook G3</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple iBook G4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple PowerBook G3 (Lombard and Pismo)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple PowerBook G4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple XServe G4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple XServe G5</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Apple Mac Mini</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Embedded boards based on MPC85XX</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than
1 processor.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="proc-sparc64">
@ -367,10 +314,7 @@
<para>This section describes the systems currently known to be
supported by &os; on the Fujitsu &sparc64; and Sun &ultrasparc;
platforms. For
background information on the various hardware designs see the
<link xlink:href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/">Sun System
Handbook</link>.</para>
platforms.</para>
<para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1
processor.</para>