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Tue Jun 21 09:32:43 2016 UTC (7 years, 3 months ago) by leot
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CVS tags: HEAD
Bump future_rel and changes_future to 8.0 and changes_cur to 7.0.

The user-visible change is that instead of having `NetBSD/<port> 6.0 changes'
and `NetBSD/<port> 7.0 changes' there will be respectively
`NetBSD/<port> 7.0 changes' and `NetBSD/<port> 8.0 changes'.

    1: [[!template id=port
    2: port="amd64"
    3: cur_rel="7.0.1"
    4: future_rel="8.0"
    5: pkg_rel="7.0"
    6: changes_cur="7.0"
    7: changes_future="8.0"
    8: thumbnail="http://www.netbsd.org/images/ports/amd64/AMD_Opteron.gif"
    9: about="""
   10: NetBSD/amd64 is a port to the AMD64 family of processors; it
   11: supports CPUs that implement the 64-bit x86
   12: architecture. This covers all recent AMD and Intel models.
   13: 
   14: NetBSD/amd64 is a true 64bit operating system. Running
   15: 32-bit NetBSD/i386 binaries is supported as well; see 
   16: [[!template id=man name="compat_netbsd32" section="8"]].
   17: 
   18: The port was first committed to the NetBSD source tree as NetBSD/x86_64
   19: on June 19th, 2001 and renamed to NetBSD/amd64 on April 26th, 2003.
   20: 
   21: The original work to do this port was done by Frank van der Linden at
   22: <a class="ulink" href="http://www.wasabisystems.com/" target="_top">Wasabi Systems</a>, assisted by
   23: <a class="ulink" href="http://www.amd.com/" target="_top">AMD</a>, who provided the simulator
   24: (Simics VirtuHammer), pre-release hardware and access to a range
   25: of Opteron hardware through the
   26: <a class="ulink" href="http://developer.amd.com/" target="_top">AMD Developer Center</a>.
   27: 
   28: The port is fully functional. It has been tested on single-CPU and
   29: multiprocessor (SMP) Opteron configurations. Since the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-2.0/NetBSD-2.0.html" target="_top">release of NetBSD 2.0</a>,
   30: it is a completely supported platform.
   31: """
   32: 
   33: ]]
   34: [[!tag tier1port]]

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