On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Ben Kaduk wrote:

BK> > >> I'm updating my patch to the FAQ (docs/115000) for danger@'s BK> > >> (somewhat) new daily snapshot BK> > >> builds, which are specific to x86 and amd64. Should I just use
literals for BK> > >> these architectures, or are the entity-ified somewhere that I haven't
found yet? BK> > > BK> > > As far as I know, we do not have entities for architectures. BK> > BK> > The release documents grew these entities fairly recently...see BK> > src/release/doc/share/sgml/release.ent (on HEAD only at the moment). BK> BK> But is release.ent pulled into the build of books/faq/book.sgml ?

I can see in share/sgml/freebsd.ent:

<!-- Entities for various architectures. These are to be used only for denoting a variant of FreeBSD for a particular architecture (e.g. &os;/&arch.i386;). Other entities should be used when referring generically to an architecture, particularly because entities such as &i386; properly denote trademarks and registered trademarks. --> <!ENTITY arch.alpha "alpha"> <!ENTITY arch.amd64 "amd64"> <!ENTITY arch.arm "arm"> <!ENTITY arch.i386 "i386"> <!ENTITY arch.ia64 "ia64"> <!ENTITY arch.pc98 "pc98"> <!ENTITY arch.powerpc "powerpc"> <!ENTITY arch.sparc64 "sparc64"> <!ENTITY arch.sun4v "sun4v">

This is from rev 1.93 of freebsd.ent:

date: 2007/08/11 19:17:41; author: bmah; state: Exp; lines: +15 -0 Add &arch.*; entities for the various architectures. These should only be used when referring to a version of FreeBSD on a specific architecture, e.g. &os;/&arch.i386;. Use other, already existing entities (such as &i386;) when talking generically about an architecture, in order to attribute trademarks correctly.

Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: mar...@FreeBSD.org ]