URL for End-Of-Life and OS/Arch documentation

Small enhancements

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@34083

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index afd82275cd..353008bcd8 100644
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -43,7 +43,15 @@ The official (threaded) builds from HP, as they are shipped on the
 Application DVD/CD's are available on
 http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=PERL
 for both PA-RISC and IPF (Itanium Processor Family). They are built
-with the HP ANSI-C compiler.
+with the HP ANSI-C compiler by ActiveState.
+
+To see what version is included on the DVD (assumed here to be mounted
+on /cdrom), issue this command:
+
+  # swlist -s /cdrom perl
+  # perl           D.5.8.8.B  5.8.8 Perl Programming Language
+    perl.Perl5-32  D.5.8.8.B  32-bit 5.8.8 Perl Programming Language with Extensions
+    perl.Perl5-64  D.5.8.8.B  64-bit 5.8.8 Perl Programming Language with Extensions
 
 =head2 Using perl from HP's porting centre
 
@@ -252,6 +260,23 @@ To see all about your machine, type
   ia64 hp server rx2600
   # /usr/contrib/bin/machinfo
 
+=head2 HP-UX versions
+
+Not all architectures (PA = PA-RISC, IPF = Itanium Processor Family)
+support all versions of HP-UX, here is a short list
+
+  HP-UX version  Kernel  Architecture
+  -------------  ------  ------------
+  10.20          32 bit  PA
+  11.00          32/64   PA
+  11.11  11i v1  32/64   PA
+  11.22  11i v2     64        IPF
+  11.23  11i v2     64   PA & IPF
+  11.31  11i v3     64   PA & IPF
+
+See for the full list of hardware/OS support and expected end-of-life
+http://www.hp.com/go/hpuxservermatrix
+
 =head2 Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
 
 HP-UX supports dynamically loadable libraries (shared libraries).
@@ -390,10 +415,11 @@ are often multiple versions of the same package available).
 
 Above mentioned distributions are depots. H.Merijn Brand has made prebuilt
 gcc binaries available on http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ and/or
-http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ for HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00, and HP-UX 11.11
-(HP-UX 11i) in both 32- and 64-bit versions. These are bzipped tar archives
-that also include recent GNU binutils and GNU gdb.  Read the instructions
-on that page to rebuild gcc using itself.
+http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ for HP-UX 10.20, HP-UX 11.00, HP-UX 11.11
+(HP-UX 11i v1), and HP-UX 11.23 (HP-UX 11i v2) in both 32- and 64-bit
+versions. These are bzipped tar archives that also include recent GNU
+binutils and GNU gdb.  Read the instructions on that page to rebuild gcc
+using itself.
 
 On PA-RISC you need a different compiler for 32-bit applications and for
 64-bit applications. On PA-RISC, 32-bit objects and 64-bit objects do
@@ -629,6 +655,6 @@ With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.8.2: 2008-05-16
+Version 0.8.3: 2008-06-24
 
 =cut