doc: document linux/ppc64 kernel requirement (2.6.37 or later)

Fixes #13269.

Change-Id: I960d1825bda9d8873c2a9005872c45e4c7d30111
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18339
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>

diff --git a/doc/install-source.html b/doc/install-source.html
index 1692f0dbc0cb2e79349a668eba1e17aefd4a6d1d..60931ada5da91407f91d28b2ebc3f6237b41d708 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/install-source.html
+++ b/doc/install-source.html
@@ -93,6 +93,17 @@ The full set of supported combinations is listed in the discussion of
 <a href="#environment">environment variables</a> below.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+See the main installation page for the <a href="/doc/install#requirements">overall system requirements</a>.
+The following additional constraints apply to systems that can be built only from source:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>For Linux on PowerPC 64-bit, the minimum supported kernel version is 2.6.37, meaning that
+Go does not support CentOS 6 on these systems.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
 </div>
 
 <h2 id="go14">Install Go compiler binaries</h2>