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# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.47 2009/10/05 12:49:16 danger Exp $
# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.48 2009/10/11 17:49:28 danger Exp $
.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
.include "../Makefile.conf"
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XMLDOCS+= report-2008-10-2008-12
XMLDOCS+= report-2009-01-2009-03
XMLDOCS+= report-2009-04-2009-09
XMLDOCS+= report-2009-10-2009-12
XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl

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en/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.xml
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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
Report//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.xml,v 1.12 2010/01/16 17:57:54 gabor Exp $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.xml,v 1.13 2010/01/17 11:06:43 gabor Exp $ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>October-December</month>
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<title>Introduction</title>
<p>This report covers &os; related projects between October and
December 2009. Obviously, this is the last report in 2009,
which has shown to be very important for the &os; Project. Besides
other remarkable things, a new major version of &os;, 8.0-RELEASE, has been
December 2009. This is the last of the four reports covering 2009,
which has shown to be a very important year for the &os; Project. Besides
other notable things, a new major version of &os;, 8.0-RELEASE, has been
released, while the release process for 7.3-RELEASE is soon to begin.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you
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</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/freebsd/trunk/">SVN
repository</url>
<url
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com/msg39598.html">
Official Announcement</url>
<url href="http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/freebsd/trunk/">SVN
repository</url>
</links>
<body>
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<body>
<p>Existing ata(4) infrastructure, which has been around many years,
has various problems and limitations with compared to modern
controllers/devices support. Although the CAM subsystem (used for SCSI)
has various problems and limitations when compared to modern
controllers/device support. Although the CAM subsystem (used for SCSI)
is almost as old as ata(4), it is more eligible to solve the current
problems. To reduce code duplication and better support border cases
such as ATAPI and SAS, we have started to develop a new CAM based
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making controller driver API stricter.</p>
<p>Command queuing support gives new ATA implementation up to
double performance benefit on some workloads, whereas 20-30% is
double performance benefit on some workloads, with 20-30% improvement
quite usual.</p>
<p>SATA Port Multiplier support makes it easy to build fast and
@ -294,9 +294,9 @@ Report//EN"
</body>
<help>
<task>Fix sporadic rendering freezes</task>
<task>Fix sporadic rendering freezes.</task>
<task>Fix JavaScript interpreter, v8, on i386 architecture</task>
<task>Fix JavaScript interpreter, v8, on i386 architecture.</task>
</help>
</project>
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been used extensively by the developers. The primary author of
this port is Oleksandr Tymoshenko (gonzo@FreeBSD.org).</li>
<li>A new port to the sibyte BCM1250 SoC on the BCM91250
<li>A new port to the SiByte BCM1250 SoC on the BCM91250
evaluation board (aka SWARM). This port is reported to be stable,
but this hardware is a little old and not widely available. The
primary author of this port is Neel Natu (neel@FreeBSD.org). Only
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but experimental.</li>
<li>Work on SMP is underway to support multicore processors like
the sibyte, Octeon and XLR processors.</li>
the SiByte, Octeon and XLR processors.</li>
</ul>
<p>The development branch had been updated incorrectly several times over the
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reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses latest v4 firmware image instead of using v3, which is
old enough. In this way, we have some great benefits, such as the
supportos N-PHYs or the fixes of various earlier firmware bugs.</li>
<li>Uses latest v4 firmware image instead of using the much older v3
firmware. In this way, we have some great benefits, such as
support for N-PHYs and the fixes of various earlier firmware bugs.</li>
<li>Supports PIO mode. This is importanta because &mdash; as you might
<li>Supports PIO mode. This is important because &mdash; as you might
know &mdash; the Broadcom Wireless Driver is created by
reverse-engineering so some pieces of hardware might not
work with DMA operations.</li>
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<name>
<given>BSDCan Information</given>
</name>
<email>info@bsdcan.org</email>
<email>info@BSDCan.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/" />
<url href="http://www.BSDCan.org/2010/" />
</links>
<body>
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<name>
<given>AsiaBSDCon Information</given>
</name>
<email>secretary@asiabsdcon.org</email>
<email>secretary@AsiaBSDCon.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://2010.asiabsdcon.org/" />
<url href="http://2010.AsiaBSDCon.org/" />
</links>
<body>
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<given>meetBSD</given>
<common>Information</common>
</name>
<email>info@meetbsd.org</email>
<email>info@meetBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.meetbsd.org"/>
<url href="http://www.meetBSD.org"/>
</links>
<body>
<p>The meetBSD conference is an annual event gathering users and
developers of the BSD operating system family, mostly FreeBSD,
developers of the BSD operating system family, mostly &os;,
NetBSD and OpenBSD. Afer the special California edition,
meetBSD Wintercamp in Livigno, this year we are back to
Krakow, Poland.</p>
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<p>See the conference main web site for more details.</p>
</body>
<help/>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
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</person>
</contact>
<links/>
<body>
<p>Preliminary Hardware Performance Counter support for Intel
XScale ARM processors was committed to FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT
XScale ARM processors was committed to &os; 9.0-CURRENT
in December. This adds another supported architecture to hwpmc(9).
The system works for basic performance counter usage but more
advanced usage scenarios, namely callchain support, are not
yet implemented.</p>
</body>
<help/>
</project>
</report>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/status.sgml,v 1.57 2009/05/07 18:12:15 brd Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/status.sgml,v 1.58 2009/10/11 17:49:28 danger Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Quarterly Status Reports">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.about "INCLUDE">
]>
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<html>
&header;
<h2>Next submissions due: January 15, 2010</h2>
<h2>Next submissions due: April 15th, 2010</h2>
<p>Use the <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/monthly.cgi">xml
generator</a> or download and edit the <a href="report-sample.xml">
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<h2>2009</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="report-2009-10-2009-12.html">October, 2009 -
December, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="report-2009-04-2009-09.html">April, 2009 -
September, 2009</a></li>
<li><a href="report-2009-01-2009-03.html">January, 2009 -

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<news>
<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
$FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.282 2009/12/09 21:15:22 gavin Exp $
$FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.283 2009/12/22 15:48:47 ryusuke Exp $
</cvs:keyword>
</cvs:keywords>
<year>
<name>2010</name>
<month>
<name>1</name>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>October-December, 2009 Status Report</title>
<p>The October-December, 2009 Status Report is <a
href="&base;/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.html">now
available</a> with 38 entries.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2009</name>