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<description>Miscellaneous</description>
<p>Objects that defy categorization.</p>
<p>Items that defy categorization.</p>
</category>
<category>
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<ul>
<li>The CPU topology detection code was enhanced to properly
detect Zen dies and CCXes. This gives the scheduler more
locality information to make scheduling decisions.</li>
detect Zen dies and CPU Complexes. This gives the scheduler more
locality information to use when making scheduling decisions.</li>
<li>The x86 topology analysis was enhanced to report dies and
CCXes, in addition to the existing reporting on packages,
cores, and threads. An example of the new output is
&quot;FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 groups x 2 cache groups
x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads&quot;.</li>
CPU Complexes, in addition to the existing reporting on packages,
cores, and threads. An example of the new output is
<tt>FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 groups x 2 cache groups
x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads</tt>.</li>
<li>The amdsmn(4) driver for accessing SMN (System Management
Network) registers was added.</li>
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<li>In cpufreq(4):
<ul>
<li>Added support for decoding Zen P-state info from MSRs
(mostly not necessary due to ACPI P-state information,
but potentially useful)</li>
<li>Added support for decoding Zen P-state information
from Machine State Registers (which is usually not
necessary, since it is largely redundant with ACPI
P-state information, but is potentially useful)</li>
<li>Work around the apparent Ryzen inability to achieve
the P1 state by not busying cores waiting to
transition.</li>
transition to it</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The intpm(4) smbus driver was fixed to attach to FCH
(Fusion Controller Hub).</li>
<li>The intpm(4) smbus driver was fixed to attach to the AMD
FCH (Fusion Controller Hub).</li>
<li>All MCA banks are now enabled and monitored on Zen
CPUs.</li>
<li>Feature bit decoding was added for: CLZERO, SVM features,
RAS capabilities.</li>
<li>Feature-bit decoding was added for: CLZERO, SVM features,
and RAS capabilities.</li>
<li>SHA intrinsic support was added to the aesni(4) driver.
Ryzen is currently the only desktop processor to feature
these intrinsics. Support is also present in Intel's
Goldmont line of low end SoCs.</li>
these intrinsics. Support for these intrinsics is also
present in Intel's Goldmont line of low-end SoCs.</li>
</ul>
<p>Overall, Zen is now a very usable platform for x86
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<sponsor>Dell EMC Isilon</sponsor>
<help>
<task>Add HWPMC support for new performance counters in
Zen.</task>
<task>Add HWPMC support for the new performance counters
avilable on the Zen architecture.</task>
<task>Add support for the CCP (Crypto Co-Processor).</task>
</help>
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<body>
<p>This summer has seen the creation of a puppet@ team to help
maintain the ~30 Puppet-related ports in the &os; ports tree.
maintain the approximately 30 Puppet-related ports in the &os;
ports tree.
These ports were previously maintained by various committers,
and from time to time this introduced some delays when
updating a port due to the need to wait for a maintainer's
and from time to time the distributed maintainership
introduced some delays when
updating a port due, to the need to wait for a maintainer's
approval for a related change to a different port.</p>
<p>Puppet 5 is now in the ports tree (as
<tt>sysutils/puppet5</tt>). The C++ version of Facter
(<tt>sysutils/facter</tt>) got a lot of love and is now a
drop-in replacement for the previous Ruby version of Facter
drop-in replacement for the previous Ruby version
(<tt>sysutils/rubygem-facter</tt>); it is the default facts
source for the Puppet 5 port.</p>
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</body>
<help>
<task>The <tt>pkgng</tt> package provider has some minor issues
<task>The <tt>pkg</tt> package provider has some minor issues
(it breaks things when no repos are configured, and is not
working properly from the context of the MCollective package
agent).</task>
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<p>iWARP is a protocol suite that enables efficient movement
of data across the network, building on Remote Direct Memory
Access, Direct Data Placement, and Marker PDU Aligned Framing.
It endeavors to avoid unnecessary (local) data copies and
It endeavors to avoid unnecessary (local) data copies and to
offload work from the main CPU to dedicated hardware.</p>
<p>An initial commit adding iWARP support for the Intel X722
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<p>This quarter, with the help of Matt Macy and Sean Bruno (among
others), we've submitted a review in Phabricator for the
conversion of the <tt>ixgbe</tt> driver to use the new (and evolving)
<tt>iflib</tt> interface.</p>
<tt>iflib</tt> framework.</p>
<p>Stay tuned for the conversion of the 40G driver
(<tt>ixl</tt>) as it is currently being ported to use
(<tt>ixl</tt>), as it is currently being ported to use
<tt>iflib</tt>.</p>
</body>
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</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/">FreeBSDDesktop GitHub</url>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/">FreeBSDDesktop on GitHub</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The FreeBSDDesktop team is happy to announce the availability of
<tt>graphics/drm-next-kmod</tt>. This port for &os; CURRENT
<tt>graphics/drm-next-kmod</tt>. This port for &os;-CURRENT
(amd64) provides support for the <tt>amdgpu</tt>,
<tt>i915</tt>, and <tt>radeon</tt> DRM
modules using the <tt>linuxkpi</tt> compatibility framework.
The port currently corresponds to DRM from Linux 4.9 and is in
an experimental state. It works reliably for a lot of testers
The port currently corresponds to the DRM from Linux 4.9 and is in
an experimental state. It works reliably for many testers
with modern GPU hardware (AMD HD7000 series/Tahiti to Polaris
and Intel HD3000/Sandy Bridge to Skylake). Broader testing and
and Intel HD3000/Sandy Bridge to Skylake). Broader testing and
reporting/fixing of bugs is appreciated.</p> </body>
<help>
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</links>
<body>
<p>OpenJFX is an open source, next generation client
application platform for desktop and embedded systems
<p>OpenJFX is an open source, next generation, client
application platform for desktop and embedded systems,
based on JavaSE. This quarter, the OpenJFX port was
reworked and has some significant improvements.</p>
reworked and has received some significant improvements.</p>
<p>More modules are being built. With the new web module we
gain support for applications that have their own builtin
web browser like e.g. AsciidocFX. The new media module
allows JavaFX applications to playback audio and video
web browser such as AsciidocFX. The new media module
allows JavaFX applications to play audio and video
files.</p>
<p>A port of the JavaFX scenebuilder, a RAD tool for
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</body>
<help>
<task>Upstream some of the patches</task>
<task>Upstream some of the patches in the ports tree.</task>
</help>
</project>
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</links>
<body>
<p>The Ports Collection now features over 31,600 ports. There are currently
2671 problem reports, of which 718 are unassigned. This quarter saw
almost 5,900 commits from 175 committers. The number of open PRs grew
<p>The Ports Collection now features over 31,600 ports. There are currently
2671 problem reports, of which 718 are unassigned. This quarter saw
almost 5,900 commits from 175 committers. The number of open PRs grew
compared to last quarter, and outpaced the number of changes.</p>
<p>This quarter, we welcomed Zach Leslie (zleslie@), Luca Pizzamiglio
(pizzamig@), Craig Leres (leres@), Adriaan de Groot (adridg@), and Dave
Cottlehuber (dch@) as new committers. The commit bits of the following
Cottlehuber (dch@) as new committers. The commit bits of the following
committers were taken in for safekeeping: alonso@ after 19 months of
inactivity, rpaulo@ per his request, and ache@ after he passed away.
Despite several tries and changing mentors, kami@ lacked interest in
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<li><tt>twisted</tt>: there is only one Twisted port left</li>
</ul>
<p>The default version of GCC was bumped from 5 to 6. Firefox was updated
to version 56.0 and Chromium to version 61.0.3163.100. The version of
<p>The default version of GCC was bumped from 5 to 6. Firefox was updated
to version 56.0 and Chromium to version 61.0.3163.100. The version of
<tt>pkg</tt> itself was updated to 1.10.1.</p>
<p>During this quarter, antoine@ performed 28 exp-runs to test version
updates of major ports, improving <tt>USE_GITHUB</tt> and
<tt>SHEBANG_FILES</tt>, and API changes to the base system.
This quarter, the foundations for ports &quot;flavors&quot; were
This quarter, the foundation for ports &quot;flavors&quot; was
committed, though more development and testing will be
performed in the coming quarter before it goes live.</p>
</body>
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<li><a href="https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/">https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>We had 2 developer summits in Q3:</p>
<p>We had a team meeting at two developer summits during Q3:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DevSummit/201708/Testing">BSDcam</a></li>
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</body>
<help>
<task>Fix the failing cases and builds.</task>
<task>Fix the failing test cases and builds.</task>
<task>Create builds for additional architectures.</task>
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<p>In addition to Fedor Uporov, please also welcome (in no
particular order) Matt Joras, Marcin Wojtas, Chuck Tuffli, Ilya
Bakulin and Alex Richardson as brand new committers. We have also
Bakulin and Alex Richardson as brand-new committers. We have also
awarded Steven Hurd and Eugene Grosbein src commit bits to go with
their existing ports bits. Welcome back Gordon Tetlow as a src
committer, essential for his new role within secteam. Eric Davis
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However, this does not necessarily meet the needs of downstream
projects based on &os;, and given the new "packaged base",
adding per-package licensing metadata in a way similar to how
the Ports Collectionworks is under consideration as an alternative
the Ports Collection works is under consideration as an alternative
mechanism.</li>
</ul>
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report was edited for length and to concentrate on activities
during the quarter in question.</p>
<p>Amazon is proposing to set up mirrors of the FreeBSD-update and
<p>Amazon is proposing to set up mirrors of the <tt>freebsd-update</tt> and
<tt>pkg</tt> servers within AWS in order to provide faster
access for EC2 users. These mirrors will be publicly
accessible, but the expectation is that use will primarily be
from within EC2. &os; AMIs will have a preset configuration
that references the Amazon servers.</p>
<p>The old, long deprecated and insecure &quot;r-commands&quot; (rsh,
rlogin, rcp) are being removed from the base system for
<p>The old, long-deprecated, and insecure &quot;r-commands&quot;
(<tt>rsh</tt>, <tt>rlogin</tt>, <tt>rcp</tt>) are being removed
from the base system for
12.0-RELEASE. Notice of this was added to the man pages and
release notes in time for 11.1-RELEASE and 10.4-RELEASE. Anyone
requiring these commands for backwards compatibility can use the
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<links>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/&os;-Foundation-July-August-2017-Update.pdf">FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter</url>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FreeBSD-Foundation-July-August-2017-Update.pdf">FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter</url>
</links>
<body>
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<p>Fundraising Efforts</p>
<p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. This year we've
raised over $860,000 from 500+ donors. Our 2017 fundraising
raised over $860,000 from over 500 donors. Our 2017 fundraising
goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet
and exceed this goal! Please consider making a donation to
help us continue and increase our support for &os;. <a
help us continue and increase our support for &os;: <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
<p>We also have a new Partnership Program, to provide more benefits
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<li>Broadcom Wi-Fi infrastructural improvements
(<tt>bhnd(4)</tt> driver)</li>
<li>Headless mode out of the box &mdash; Beaglebone Black</li>
<li>Headless mode out-of-the-box for the Beaglebone Black</li>
<li>Extending bhyve-ARMv7 features</li>
<li>Extending <tt>bhyve</tt>/ARMv7 features</li>
<li>Porting <tt>bhyve-arm</tt> to an ARMv8 platform</li>
<li>Porting <tt>bhyve</tt>ARM to an ARMv8 platform</li>
</ul>
<p>Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in
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<li>Stack guard</li>
<li>Kernel Undefined Behavior sanitizer</li>
<li>Kernel Undefined Behavior Sanitizer</li>
<li>Toolchain projects</li>
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conference calls to facilitate efforts for individuals to
collaborate on different technologies.</p>
<p>You can find out more about the support we provided by
reading individual updates from Ed Maste, Konstatin Belousov,
Landon Fuller, Matt Ahrens, and Edward Napierala in this
report.</p>
<p>Release Engineering</p>
<p>The Foundation provides a full-time staff member to lead the
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<li>Proved travel grants to &os; contributors to attend the
above events.</li>
<li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Security Symposium in
Vancouver BC</li>
<li>Sponsored the 2017 USENIX Security Symposium in Vancouver
BC as an Industry Partner</li>
<li>Provided &os; advocacy material</li>
<li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Annual Technical
Conference in Santa Clara, CA</li>
<li>Supported the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in
Santa Clara, CA as an Industry Partner</li>
</ul>
<p>We continued producing &os; advocacy material to help
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published the July/August issue that you can find at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
<p>You can find out more about events we were at and upcoming
<p>You can find out more about events we attended and upcoming
events at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/</a>.</p>
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<body>
<p>A pNFS server allows an NFS service to be spread over
multiple servers, separating the MetaData operations from the
Data operations (Read/Write). This project will add the
capability of using &os; systems to create a pNFS service
consisting of a single MetaData Server, plus a set of Data
Data operations (Read and Write). This project will add the
ability to use &os; systems to create a pNFS service
consisting of a single MetaData Server plus a set of Data
Servers. The Data Servers can be mirrored, so that redundant
copies of the file data are maintained.</p>
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next six months.</p>
<p>The patched &os; sources may now be accessed for testing
via either Subversion or download of a gzipped tarball.
They consist of a patched kernel plus nfsd daemon and can be
via either Subversion or downloading a gzipped tarball.
They consist of a patched kernel and <tt>nfsd</tt> and can be
used on any &os; 11 or later system. The installation
procedure is covered in the linked document.</p>
</body>
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</help>
</project>
<project cat="proj">
<project cat="third">
<title>The <tt>nosh</tt> Project</title>
<contact>
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</links>
<body>
<p>The nosh project is a suite of system-level utilities for
<p>The <tt>nosh</tt> project is a suite of system-level utilities for
initializing, running, and shutting down BSD systems; and for
managing daemons, terminals, and logging. It attempts to
supersede BSD <tt>init</tt>, the Mewburn <tt>rc.d</tt> system,
and OpenRC as used on &os; and TrueOS, drawing inspiration
from Solaris SMF for named milestones, daemontools-encore for
service control/status mechanisms, UCSPI, and IBM AIX for
separated service and system management. It comprises a range
separated service and system management. It includes a range
of compatibility mechanisms, including shims for familiar
commands from other systems, and an automatic import mechanism
that takes existing configuration data from
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<p>Since the last status report, in December 2015, the project
has seen: restructured and finer-grained packaging that has
fewer conflicts with other toolsets; the addition of
<tt>zsh</tt> completion files; improvements to the vertual
<tt>zsh</tt> completion files; improvements to the virtual
terminal subsystem, keyboard map, mouse support, and ugen and
DECSCUSR support; RFC 5424/5426 remote logging support;
replacement of the libkqueue and the C library's environment
replacement of libkqueue and the C library's environment
handling functions; several new helper commands; support for
Java VM autolocation; improved socket-passing code; an
extended status API and &quot;one-shot&quot; service support;
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new ones.</p>
<p>In September, I added a new chapter to the
<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/">&os;Documentation
Project Primer</a> describing the basics of creating a man
page. It includes descriptions of the markup, section
structure, recommended optional material such as examples,
and sample templates for the most common types of man pages.
The Resources section includes links to several external
resources, including the excellent <a
<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/">&os;
Documentation Project Primer</a> describing the basics of
creating a man page. It includes descriptions of the
markup, section structure, recommended optional material
such as examples, and sample templates for the most common
types of man pages. The Resources section includes links to
several external resources, including the excellent <a
href="http://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html">Practical UNIX
Manuals: mdoc</a>.</p>
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</body>
<help>
<task>Add more explanation and examples of markup.</task>
<task>Add more explanation and examples of markup usage.</task>
<task>Expand the sample templates with additional desired standard
features, like an EXAMPLES section.</task>