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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">
<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2011-07-2011-09.xml,v 1.1 2011/11/05 14:59:08 danger Exp $ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>July-September</month>
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<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
September 2011. It is the third of the four reports planned for 2011.
This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the stuff for the next
major version of &os;, 9.0, which is to be released in September.</p>
This quarter was mainly devoted to polishing the bits for the next
major version of &os;, 9.0, which is to be released by then end
of this year.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period
between October and December 2011 is January 15th, 2012.</p>
@ -105,13 +106,13 @@ Status Report//EN"
<p>We tried to re-activate committers who did not contribute for
some time but most of them are currently unable to free up enough
time. We hope to gain fresh contributor blood as we are getting
occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the german
occasional reports about bugs and grammar in the German
translation.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Submit grammar, spelling or other errors you find in the
german documents and the website</task>
German documents and the website</task>
<task>Translate more articles and other open handbook sections
(especially the new chapter about the new &os;
@ -151,13 +152,13 @@ Status Report//EN"
<p>The www/ja and doc/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook subtrees have
constantly been updated since the last report.</p>
<p>www/ja: During this period, many part of outdated contents in
<p>www/ja: During this period, many areas of outdated content in
the www/ja subtree were updated to the latest versions in the
English counterpart. The Japanese version of 8.2R release
English counterparts. The Japanese version of 8.2R release
announcement was added and the upcoming 9.0R announcement will be
translated in a timely manner.</p>
<p>Handbook: Japanese "kernelconfig" section finally caught up with
<p>Handbook: The Japanese "kernelconfig" section finally caught up with
the original English version. The next targets are "cutting-edge"
and new installer section.</p>
</body>
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</links>
<body>
<p>The ports tree slowly moves up closer to 23,000. The PR count
<p>The ports tree slowly moves up closer to the 23,000 mark. The PR count
still remains at about 1000.</p>
<p>In Q2 we added 4 new committers, took in 6 commit bit for safe
<p>In Q2 we added 4 new committers, but took in 6 commit bits for safe
keeping.</p>
<p>The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an
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<li>Python update</li>
<li>Boost updates</li>
<li>Gtk3 updates</li>
<li>Clang testing</li>
<li>clang testing</li>
<li>pkgng testing</li>
<li>testing ruby19</li>
<li>set default fortran to lang/gcc46</li>
<li>setting the default fortran to lang/gcc46</li>
<li>setting apache22 as default</li>
<li>set default LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ENV</li>
<li>setting the default LDFLAGS in CONFIGURE_ENV</li>
</ul>
<p>Work continues to refine the new build master pointyhat-west. An
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<p>linimon is working on a set of scripts to more quickly produce
pre-configured PXEboot images for package build nodes.</p>
<p>The update of FreeBSD_version in param.h to 1000000 proved very
<p>The update of __FreeBSD_version in param.h to 1000000 proved very
disruptive to the ports tree, triggering lots of bad assumption in
code that interpreted it as &os; 1. A great deal of work has
gone into identifying the instances of broken code and fixing and
@ -357,15 +358,15 @@ Status Report//EN"
<body>
<p>ZFSguru is a newly designed Network Attached Storage operating
system, much like FreeNAS is. The difference is that ZFSguru
system, much like FreeNAS. The difference is that ZFSguru
focuses heavily on ZFS and user friendly operation, and uses a full
&os; distribution with no elements stripped down. This allows
for people new to &os; and UNIX in general to access the power
people new to &os; and UNIX in general to access the power
of ZFS, while still allowing more advanced users to tweak their NAS
with additional functionality and use it as normal &os;
with additional functionality and use it as a normal &os;
distribution.</p>
<p>Started little over a year ago, the ZFSguru project is making
<p>Started a little over a year ago, the ZFSguru project is making
good progress. It should already be one of the most user friendly
distributions focused on ZFS, and sports some very unique features.
The advanced ZFS benchmarking and convenient Root-on-ZFS
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immediately allocating and deallocating kernel virtual memory. This
results in a gain in terms of performances (there is a relatively
high cost in the approach adopted until now), and also in terms of
reduction of fragmentation (VM system uses a first-fit policy of
reduction of fragmentation (the VM system uses a first-fit policy of
allocation so there is room for improvements).</p>
</body>
</project>
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<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/ZhihaoSoC2011">&os;
Wiki</url>
Wiki</url>
<url href="https://github.com/lichray/nvi2">Github page</url>
</links>
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never change the actual encoding, and the detection failbacks to
locale.</li>
<li>Pavel Timofeev provided a full Russian translation of the
catalog. Thanks him.</li>
catalog. Thanks to him.</li>
<li>Now nvi-iconv is able to be compiled with widechar only and
without iconv (inspired by a user on FreeBSDChina.org). In such
case, it only supports your locale.</li>
without iconv (inspired by a user on FreeBSDChina.org). In
that case, it only supports your locale.</li>
</ul>
</body>
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PACKETpro family of embedded processors.</p>
<p>The chip includes two Power Architecture PPC465 processor cores,
which are compliant with Book-E specification of the architecture,
which are compliant with the Book-E specification of the architecture,
and a number of integrated peripherals.</p>
<p>This work is extending current Book-E support in &os; towards
PPC4xx processors variation along with device drivers for
PPC4xx processor variants along with device drivers for
integrated peripherials.</p>
<p>Following drivers has been created since last report:</p>
<p>The following drivers have been created since the last report:</p>
<ul>
<li>Interrupt controller</li>
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<body>
<p>Marvell Armada XP is a complete system-on-chip solution based on
Sheeva embedded CPU. These devices integrate up to four ARMv6/v7
the Sheeva embedded CPUs. These devices integrate up to four ARMv6/v7
compliant Sheeva CPU cores with shared L2 cache.</p>
<p>This work is extending &os;/arm infrastructure towards
support for recent ARM architecture variations along with a basic
set of device drivers for integrated peripherials.</p>
set of device drivers for integrated peripherals.</p>
<p>The following code has been implemented since last status
<p>The following code has been implemented since the last status
report:</p>
<ul>
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</contact>
<body>
<p>We updated existing ports to their latest versions, hunted down
a bug in 9-CURRENT rtld which was causing GHC to crash
<p>We updated existing ports to their latest versions and hunted down
a bug in the 9-CURRENT rtld which was causing GHC to crash
intermittently. We also started work on Haskell Platform 2011.3.0.0
(development version) in a <a
href="https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell/tree/haskell-platform-2011.3.0.0">
@ -683,7 +684,7 @@ Status Report//EN"
<help>
<task>Test GHC to work with clang/LLVM.</task>
<task>Add an option to GHC port to be able to build it with already
<task>Add an option to the GHC port to be able to build it with already
installed GHC instead of requiring a separate GHC boostrap
tarball.</task>
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</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>new CARP</title>
<title>The new CARP</title>
<contact>
<person>
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<body>
<p>I am now working on significant rewrite of CARP in &os;.</p>
<p>The reason for this work is that CARP protocol actually does
<p>The reason for this work is that the CARP protocol actually does
not bring a new interface, but is a property of interface address.
Rewriting it in this way helps to remove several hacks from
incoming packet processing, simplifies some code, makes CARP
addresses more sane from viewpoint of routing daemons such as
addresses more sane from the viewpoint of routing daemons such as
quagga/zebra and closes many CARP-related PRs in GNATS. It also
brings support for a single redundant address on the subnet, the
thing that is called "carpdev feature" in OpenBSD, long awaited in
&os;.</p>
<p>For this moment I have got a patch against head/ that compiles and
<p>For this moment I have a patch against head/ that compiles and
works in my test environment that I am going to deploy soon on some
of servers under my control.</p>
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<help>
<task>More testing requested!</task>
<task>Implement arpbalance &amp; ipbalance features. This require a
<task>Implement arpbalance and ipbalance features. This requires a
next step of rewriting, probably borrowing some ideas from
OpenBSD.</task>
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developers of today's open-source BSD systems to popularize their
work and their organizations, and to meet each other in the real
life. We wanted to motivate potential future developers
and users, especially undergraduate university students to work
and users, especially undergraduate university students, to work
with BSD systems.</p>
<p>This year's BSD-Day was be held in Bratislava, Slovakia at
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<body>
<p>The 10th anniversary European BSD Conference was organized in
Maarssen, The Netherlands with more than 250 registered visitors.
There were many interesting tutorials, including introduction to
DTrace or working with Netgraph. It featured 26 high-quality talks
There were many interesting tutorials, including introductions to
DTrace and working with Netgraph. It featured 26 high-quality talks
and 2 keynote speakers on various topics related to &os;,
OpenBSD, NetBSD, or even MINIX: OpenBSD PF, NetBSD NPF, IPv6
support in &os;, virtualization in the BSD domain, recent
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&os; Developer Summit organized as part of EuroBSDcon 2011 in
Maarssen, The Netherlands. This year EuroBSDcon organizers offered
us their generous support in handling the details, like
registrations, renting the venue, or providing food for keeping
registrations, renting the venue, and providing food for keeping
attendees happy.</p>
<p>The Maarssen developer summit spanned over 3 days. It is
generally a workshop-style event that has now adapted the layout of
generally a workshop-style event that has now adopted the layout of
the developer summit organized successfully in Canada earlier in
May. On the first day, there were working groups on various topics,
e.g. Capsicum, toolchain issues, ports, and documentation. On the
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</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>ZRouter.org project - a &os; based firmware for embedded
<title>ZRouter.org project &mdash; a &os;-based firmware for embedded
devices</title>
<contact>
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</links>
<body>
<p>ZRouter.org is a young project that targeting to produce &os;
based firmware for small boxes such a SOHO router, APs, etc. At
present time ZRouter.org able to build working firmware for:</p>
<p>ZRouter.org is a young project that aims to produce
&os;-based firmware for small boxes such as SOHO router, APs, etc.
At the present time ZRouter.org is able to build working firmware
for:</p>
<ul>
<li>D-Link DAP-1350</li>
@ -1150,16 +1152,16 @@ Status Report//EN"
<p>Currently we are working on most parts of the core system but we
are also in the planning phase for implementing a simple web-based
GUI which we hope will have taken form before next &os; status
GUI which we hope will have taken form before the next &os; status
report.</p>
<p>We still have many items not done, so any devices in that list
cannot be called as "Production Ready" yet. But we work on that.</p>
<p>We still have many items not done, so devices in that list
cannot be called "Production Ready" yet. But we work on that.</p>
<p>It is easy to add new devices, because we have separate
definition of board and SoC(System on Chip), so if you have "Asus
WL-500g Premium v2" for example, you can copy D-Link/DIR-320
directory and tweak to work for you device. We already have basic
directory and tweak to work for your device. We already have basic
support for:</p>
<ul>
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</links>
<body>
<p>Many embedded devices have Ethernet switch on board, same take a
place on some multiports NICs, switch framework designed to give
ability to user easily control basic futures that management
switches have, such a VLANs, QOS, port mirroring, etc. Currently we
able to control only VLANs on:</p>
<p>Many embedded devices have an Ethernet switch on board; such
switches are even embedded on some multiport NICs. This
embedded switch framework is designed to give users the
ability to easily control basic features present in managed
switches, such as VLANs, QoS, port mirroring, etc. Currently
we are able to control only VLANs on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Atheros AR8216/AR8316 (standalone and embedded in
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<help>
<task>Fix AR8216/AR8316 driver</task>
<task>Fix BCM5325 driver, not all ports pass data</task>
<task>Add tick handler for RTL8309 to auto unisolate ports</task>
<task>Add tick handler for RTL8309 to automatically unisolate ports</task>
<task>Unify MIB statistic counters access</task>
<task>Add mii read/write bus methods</task>
<task>Implement pseudo interfaces for switch PHYs</task>
@ -1256,21 +1259,21 @@ Status Report//EN"
</links>
<body>
<p>A set of scripts, to make easy of building &os; VM
images.</p>
<p>A set of scripts to make building &os; VM images easy.</p>
<p>Providing a way to make regular build images of latest version
from SVN. Images currently can be `dd` to USB flash (to make real
hardware testing), VirtualBox (.vdi).</p>
<p>Providing a way to make regular build images of the latest version
from SVN. Images currently can be copied with `dd` to USB
flash (for testing on real hardware) and VirtualBox
(.vdi).</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Build images with ports-set from main port-tree</task>
<task>Build images with ports-set from main port-tree plus
overrides form area51 (Like expeerimental images)</task>
overrides form area51 (like experimental images)</task>
<task>Build images with special development branches included (Like
<task>Build images with special development branches included (like
for testing drivers)</task>
</help>
</project>
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<given>Giorgos</given>
<common>Keramidas</common>
</name>
<email>keramids@FreeBSD.org</email>
<email>keramida@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
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<body>
<p>After a few rather quiet months, the &os; Greek Documentation
Project is back in track, translating and improving the Handbook,
Project is back on track, translating and improving the Handbook,
FAQ and &os; articles. The new bsdinstall chapter has been
translated and is now present in the Handbook. Our <a
href="http://www.FreeBSDgr.org/handbook">experimental Handbook
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</links>
<body>
<p>AR5416, AR9160, AR9280 functions in both station and hostap
<p>AR5416, AR9160, and AR9280 functions in both station and hostap
mode. Performance is good.</p>
<p>Software retry of frames is implemented. Aggregation is
implemented.</p>
<p>BAR TX is not yet handled. HT protection is not implemented, neither
<p>BAR TX is not yet handled. HT protection is not implemented; neither
is MIMO powersave.</p>
</body>
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page.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>The &os; Release Engineering Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Release Engineering Team</given>
</name>
<email>re@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The Release Engineering Team has been coordinating the upcoming
&os; 9.0-RELEASE. Thanks to work done by many of the
developers. The release, though delayed, is taking the shape
nicely. We have reached the stage of doing the second
Release Candidate. At this time we expect to have one more
Release Candidate, to be followed by the final release itself.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>