From 0908fad5d509220a80b919a38feb8b388d005b10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Pike Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:24:27 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention the ppc64(le) ports in release notes Also make the spelling consistent in asm.html Change-Id: Ifa751eee288fe0634cd317eb827f3e408b199620 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12501 Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick Reviewed-by: Russ Cox --- doc/asm.html | 2 +- doc/go1.5.html | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/asm.html b/doc/asm.html index 11249a3b7f..ba888118b9 100644 --- a/doc/asm.html +++ b/doc/asm.html @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ Addressing modes: -

Power64, a.k.a. ppc64

+

Power 64, a.k.a. ppc64

The Power 64 port is in an experimental state. diff --git a/doc/go1.5.html b/doc/go1.5.html index 3526979c99..b8acdacaf0 100644 --- a/doc/go1.5.html +++ b/doc/go1.5.html @@ -233,6 +233,14 @@ The new port linux/arm64 is mostly in place, but cgo is only supported using external linking.

+

+Also available as experiments are ppc64 (IBM Power 64) +and ppc64le (IBM Power 64, little-endian). +Both these ports support cgo, +but for ppc64 it requires external linking while +for ppc64le it requires internal linking. +

+

On FreeBSD, Go 1.5 requires FreeBSD 8-STABLE+ because of its new use of the SYSCALL instruction.