[PATCH] README updated

Replace old information with newer from kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/README b/README
index cd5e2eb..0d318ab 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-       Linux kernel release 2.6.xx
+       Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org>

 
 These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6.  Read them carefully,
 as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
 
 These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6.  Read them carefully,
 as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the

@@ -6,23 +6,31 @@ kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong.
 
 WHAT IS LINUX?
 
 
 WHAT IS LINUX?
 

-  Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with
-  assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.
-  It aims towards POSIX compliance. 
+  Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by
+  Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across
+  the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.

 
 

-  It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged
-  Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
-  demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
-  management and TCP/IP networking. 
+  It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix,
+  including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand
+  loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management,
+  and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.

 
   It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
   accompanying COPYING file for more details. 
 
 ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
 
 
   It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
   accompanying COPYING file for more details. 
 
 ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
 

-  Linux was first developed for 386/486-based PCs.  These days it also
-  runs on ARMs, DEC Alphas, SUN Sparcs, M68000 machines (like Atari and
-  Amiga), MIPS and PowerPC, and others.
+  Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher),
+  today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
+  UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH,
+  IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
+  and Renesas M32R architectures.
+
+  Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
+  as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
+  GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has
+  also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although
+  functionality is then obviously somewhat limited.

 
 DOCUMENTATION:
 
 
 DOCUMENTATION: