NetBSD/distrib/notes/amd64/prep

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.Pp
It is strongly recommended that as part of the installation procedure, you
upgrade your system's BIOS to the latest version available from your system
vendor.
Later BIOSes often contain workarounds for CPU and chipset bugs,
workarounds that cannot be provided by the operating system.
.Pp
In the past, bugs fixed this way have been known to cause unpredictable
behaviour and frequent system crashes with
.Nx
and other
.Ul
operating systems on x86 hardware.
Final round of INSTALL cleanups for 5.0. 2009-04-26 01:21:47 +04:00			`.\"$NetBSD: prep,v 1.2 2009/04/25 21:21:48 snj Exp $`
Create the release notes framework for the amd64 port. These are, for the most part, skeleton files that allow the amd64 INSTALL document to have all the platform-independent bits, with very little MD stuff. The MD pieces will have to wait for someone familiar with the platform to add them. 2005-08-21 22:35:26 +04:00			`.`
Final round of INSTALL cleanups for 5.0. 2009-04-26 01:21:47 +04:00			`.Pp`
			`It is strongly recommended that as part of the installation procedure, you`
			`upgrade your system's BIOS to the latest version available from your system`
			`vendor.`
			`Later BIOSes often contain workarounds for CPU and chipset bugs,`
			`workarounds that cannot be provided by the operating system.`
			`.Pp`
			`In the past, bugs fixed this way have been known to cause unpredictable`
			`behaviour and frequent system crashes with`
			`.Nx`
			`and other`
			`.Ul`
			`operating systems on x86 hardware.`