merge

6 files changed, 26 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/tasks-for-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/tasks-for-the-hurd.mdwn
index bf6224b2..1f929116 100644
--- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/tasks-for-the-hurd.mdwn
+++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/tasks-for-the-hurd.mdwn
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ Tasks for the Hurd
 - Implement USB support, maybe using DDE or DDEkit -> prerequisite to system on USB.
 - Add Wireless support, maybe via DDE. 
 - Add sound support via a sound translator. 
-- Add SATA support. 
 - Stabilize Xorg, so it can run fast for days. 
 - Add PPPoE capablilities. 
 - Debug NFS for climm, w3m and git. 
diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn
index 4511eb64..465b3e3f 100644
--- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn
+++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/what_we_need.mdwn
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ As soon as these issues are taken care of, the Hurd offers everything we need fo
 - Wireless (5): Arne, ms, Carl Fredrik, Michael (netbook), antrik (notebook)
 - Sound (4): ms, Carl Fredrik, Michael, antrik²
 
-- SATA (2): Michael, (Emilio)
+- SATA (2): Michael, (Emilio). Done.
 - Tested for modern machines°¹ (2): Emilio, antrik (notebook)
 - Stable Xorg° (2): Emilio, antrik
 - PPPoE (2): Carl Fredrik, antrik²
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
index 5cdc86e5..222cd451 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/hurd_2013.mdwn
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ else="
 
 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
 
-It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the 
+It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd port announces the 
 **release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013**.  
 This is a snapshot of Debian sid at the time of the Debian
 Wheezy release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on Wheezy.  It is *not* an
@@ -30,16 +30,13 @@ official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
 
 The installation ISO images can be downloaded from
 [[Debian Ports|http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/]]
-with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. A pre-installed disk image
-is also available to make trying Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
+with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Besides the friendly
+Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available to make trying
+Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
 
-Yes, really. This time it is not a joke like the
-[[0.401 release|news/2011-04-01]].
-
-Due to the very small number of developers,
-our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
-Operating Systems, but we believe that we now reached a very good
-state.
+Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture with more
+than 10.000 software packages available (> 75% of the Debian archive, and more
+to come!).
 
 Please make sure to read the
 [[configuration information|http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install]],
@@ -47,6 +44,11 @@ the [[FAQ|faq]],
 and the [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]]
 for a start.
 
+Due to the very small number of developers,
+our progress of the project has not been as fast as other successful
+Operating Systems, but we believe to have reached a very good
+state, even with the limited resources.
+
 We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd over the past
 decades. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people
 today, please [[join|contributing]]!), but in the end a lot of people have
@@ -58,13 +60,13 @@ contributed one way or the other. **Thanks everybody!**
 - 2002: GNU MIG 1.3, libio-based glibc, GNU Mach 1.3 (disks >= 10GiB), Hurd L4 starts, work on the transition from cthreads to pthreads starts, Hurd installation party in Heidelberg, Toronto Hurd User Group meeting, Presentation at EpX in Paris ([slides](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/)).
 - 2003: [Crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd), [LinuxTag 2003](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/2003-07/msg00029.html).
 - 2005: Hurd/L4 at Libre Software Meeting.
-- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned.
-- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], Hurd on Xen via PAE, [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]].
+- 2007: [[FOSDEM|community/meetings/fosdem_2007]], the [[critique_and_position_paper|news/2007-01-14]], [[libchannel_for_GSoC|news/2007-10-01]], [[IPv6|news/2007-10-12]], Hurd/L4 abandoned, Hurd on Xen.
+- 2008: [[5_successful_GSoC_projects|news/2008-09-11]], [[Hurd/Viengoos|news/2008-12-12]]
 - 2009: [[GSoC_unionmount_translator|news/2009-09-30]], [[Start_of_Device_Drivers_in_Userspace|news/2009-11-30]].
-- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], slow but working Xorg, Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold, Hurd on Xen as DomU works.
+- 2010: [Arch Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), [Initial Nix port](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master), [[DDE|news/2010-02-28]], Thesis: [[Generalizing mobility for the Hurd|news/2010-01-31]], [Hurd article in LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/395150/), [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs]], Talk: [It’s about Freedom](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv), GSoC: Debian Installer, Hurd/Viengoos on hold.
 - 2011: [[GNU_Hurd_0.401|news/2011-04-01]], xkb, [Hurd in xkcd](http://xkcd.com/844/), Graphical Debian Installer, Plans for Debian GNU Hurd in Wheezy, Hurd [bounties](http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p276) on FOSS Factory, Lots of [attention from the press brought lots of rumors](news/2011-q2-ps), [Talk at GHM in Paris](http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/#outline-container-2-5) ([video](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2011/Samuel_Thibault-GNU_Hurd.ogv)), slab allocator, Continuous builds with Nix, improved build system, GSoC: [[Java|user/jkoenig/java]].
-- 2012: Half the Linux network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes pushed upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
-- 2013: 
+- 2012: Half the Linux 2.6.32 network drivers build with DDE, [Continuous testing with Nix](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-03/msg00019.html), glibc changes pushed upstream, improved debugging, memory mapping [with red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html), pthreads work, [[live-filesystem-debugging_report|news/2012-q1-q2]].
+- 2013: [Talk at FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/hurd_microkernel/)
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
index 3fd43793..6b48cc5f 100644
--- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
+++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn
@@ -15,4 +15,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 The 2 GiB limit has been removed in Debian GNU/Hurd.
 
-Disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB.
+IDE disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB.
+
+The AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB.
diff --git a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
index f57fcbc3..7e7cb85d 100644
--- a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 # Installation  
 
-The disk controller has to be configured as IDE. Neither SATA nor SCSI are
+The disk controller has to be configured as IDE or AHCI. Neither RAID nor SCSI are
 supported.
 
 The network controller should be configured as PCnet-PCI II or PCNet-FAST III
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn
index 3a4f560c..587178e9 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardware_compatibility_list.mdwn
@@ -71,17 +71,17 @@ e.g. drives with hundreds of GiB of storage space, see [[!GNU_Savannah_bug
 
 ## SATA
 
-SATA drives may work in compatibility mode.
+SATA drives can work in IDE compatibility mode or in AHCI mode.
 
 This is how booting a [[GNU/Hurd_system|hurd]] will typically fail if GNU Mach
-couldn't connect to the hard disk, e.g., in a SATA system without IDE
+couldn't connect to the hard disk, e.g., in a SATA system without IDE or AHCI
 compatibility mode:
 
     start (hd0,3)/hurd/ext2fs.static: (hd0,3)/hurd/ext2fs.static
     device:hd0s4: No such device or address
 
-There *may* be an option in the system's BIOS setup to configure enabling such
-a compatibility mode.
+There should be an option in the system's BIOS setup to configure enabling at
+least the AHCI compatibility mode.
 
 
 # Device Drivers