Add the September 2001 status report after a bit of delay.
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.8 2001/10/19 22:22:37 chris Exp $
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.9 2001/10/29 10:14:32 murray Exp $
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DATA= report-june-2001.html
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DATA= report-june-2001.html
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DATA+= report-july-2001.html
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DATA+= report-july-2001.html
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DATA+= report-august-2001.html
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DATA+= report-august-2001.html
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DATA+= report-september-2001.html
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# Install a sample <project> entry.
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# Install a sample <project> entry.
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DATA+= report-sample.xml
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DATA+= report-sample.xml
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en/news/status/report-2001-09.xml
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en/news/status/report-2001-09.xml
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<report>
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<date>
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<month>September</month>
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<year>2001</year>
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</date>
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<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS"
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version="1.0">
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<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
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</cvs:keywords>
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<section>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<p>In the month of September, the FreeBSD Project continued its
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investment in long-term projects, including continuing work on a
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fine-grained SMP implementation, support for Kernel Schedulable
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Entities (KSE) supporting highly efficient threading, and
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broadening support for modern hardware platforms, including Intel's
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new IA64 architecture, UltraSparc, and PowerPC. Additional focus
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was placed on the release process, including work on the release
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notes infrastructure, support for DVD releases, and work on a
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binary updating tool.</p>
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<p>Due to the delay in getting the September report out the door,
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the November status report will also cover October. During the
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month of November, we look forward to BSDCon Europe, the first such
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event outside the continental United States. The USENIX conference
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paper submission deadlines are also in November, and FreeBSD users
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and developers are encouraged to submit to the general and FREENIX
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tracks. Please see www.usenix.org for more information.</p>
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</section>
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<project>
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<title>PRFW</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Evan</given>
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<common>Sarmiento</common>
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</name>
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<email>evms@csa.bu.edu</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/jailuser/" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>PRFW provides hooks in the FreeBSD kernel, allowing users to
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insert their own checks in system calls and various kernel
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functions. PRFW is nearing 0.5, which will incorporate numerous
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structural changes such as, much faster per-process hooks, kernel
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function hooks, plus, a new way of adding hooks which would
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enable users to reference hooks by a string.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>FreeBSD libh Project</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Alexander</given>
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<common>Langer</common>
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</name>
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<email>alex@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Nathan</given>
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<common>Ahlstrom</common>
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</name>
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<email>nra@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/libh.html" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>The build process is now creating four different versions of
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the libs, which include support for TVision, Qt, both or none. I
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created some first packages from existing ports and installed
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those libh packages on my system only using libh's tools,
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including registering all the files in the package database,
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recording their checksums etc. Patches to the disk editor have
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been submitted, which include functionality to write the changes
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in the fdisk part and initial support for a disk label editor.
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We'll soon have a new committer.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>RELNOTESng</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Bruce A.</given>
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<common>Mah</common>
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</name>
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<email>bmah@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE was the first release of FreeBSD with its
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new-style release documentation. Both English and Japanese
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versions of these documents were created. Regularly-built
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snapshots of -CURRENT and 4-STABLE release documentation are now
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available on the Web site, but they require a little HTML
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infrastructure to make them viewer-friendly. I intend to continue
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updating my snapshot site at the URL above, at least for a little
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while.</p>
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<p>Call for help: The hardware compatability lists need to be
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updated in the areas of the Alpha architecture, USB devices, and
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PCCARD devices. I'm looking for volunteers to help; interested
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parties should contact me at the email address above. DocBook
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experience is not required; familiarity with the hardware above
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would be very helpful.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>Fibre Channel Support</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Matthew</given>
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<common>Jacob</common>
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</name>
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<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.feral.com/isp.html" />
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>Bug fixing and move to -STABLE of 2Gb support.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>Intel Gigabit Ethernet</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Matthew</given>
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<common>Jacob</common>
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</name>
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<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<body>
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<p>Quite a lot of cleanup of this driver. Bug fixes and some
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performance enhancements. However, this driver is likely to be
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removed shortly and replaced by one from Intel itself.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project>
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<title>TIRPC</title>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Martin</given>
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<common>Blapp</common>
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</name>
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<email>mb@imp.ch</email>
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<url href="http://www.attic.ch/tirpc.html" />
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<body>
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<p>As you know, in march 2001 the version 2.3 of TIRPC has been
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comitted together with many userland changes. Alfred Perlstein
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and Ian Dowse have helped me a lot with the porting effort and if
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I had problems with understanding the code.</p>
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<p>Most bugs are now fixed, some remaining areas to fix are
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secure RPC (keyserv) and unix domain support. I've patches for
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these area available. Ian Dowse fixed a lot of outstanding bugs
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in the rpcbind binary itself. Thank you Ian !</p>
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<p>The plan is now to migrate slowly towards TIRPC 2.8, which is
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threadsafe for the server- and clientside. One first patch I've
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made available on my URL. TIRPC 2.8 is licensed under the "Sun
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Standards License Version 1.0" and we have to add some license
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lines and the license itself to all modified files.</p>
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<p>A example is timed_clnt_create.diff which can be found on the
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homepage.</p>
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<common>Stokely</common>
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<body>
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<p>The project has gained a mailing list,
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freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.org - and the source tree has been moved
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into the projects/ directory in the FreeBSD CVS repository.
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Current work is focusing on extending the FreeBSD package
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framework, and the client library should be rewritten and
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completed by the end of the year.</p>
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<p>TODO: make the projects/ hierarchy into a cvsup distribution
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and add it to cvs-all. Then update distrib.self.</p>
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</body>
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<title>Porting ppp to hurd & linux</title>
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<common>Somers</common>
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<email>brian@freebsd-services.com</email>
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<p>Status is unchanged since last month. Patches have been
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There are GPL copyright problems that need to be addressed. Many
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conflicts are expected after the commit of IPv6 support in
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ppp.</p>
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<p>The software has been committed to -current and seems
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functional. Outstanding issues include dealing with IPV6CP events
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(linkup & linkdown scripts) and allocating site-local and
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global addresses (currently, ``iface add'' is the only way to
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actually use the link). A bug exists in -stable (running the
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not-yet-MFC'd ppp code) whereby routing entries are disappearing
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after a time (around 12 or 24 hours). No further details are yet
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available.</p>
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</body>
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<body>
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<p>A two disc set has been mastered and sent for pressing. There
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are a few surprises with this release - details will be given in
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the official announcement (at BSDConEurope).</p>
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</body>
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<title>Netgraph ATM</title>
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<common>Brandt</common>
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<p>ATM-Forum LAN-emulation version 2.0 without support for QoS
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has been implemented and tested. The ILMI daemon has been
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modularized into a general mini-SNMP daemon, an ILMI module and a
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<body>
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<p>We have finished updating section [125678] manpages to
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4.4-RELEASE based, 1 week after 4.4-RELEASE is announced. To
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finish this update, OKAZAKI Tetsurou has imported Ex/Rv macro
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support on ja-groff-1.17.2_1. SUZUKI Koichi did most Ex/Rv
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changes on Japanese manpages. He also find some issues of these
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macro usage on some original manapges and filed a PR. For
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post-4.4-RELEASE, now we target 4.5-RELEASE. Section 3 update is
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also in progress.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<title>New Mount(2) API</title>
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<person>
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<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Poul-Henning</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Kamp</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Maxime</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Henrion</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>mux@qualys.com</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>We've made some good progress now, and the new nmount(2)
|
||||||
|
syscall is nearly finished. There is still some work to do to
|
||||||
|
have a working kernel_mount() and to convert all filesystems to
|
||||||
|
use this new API for their VFS_MOUNT() functions.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD/sparc64 port</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jake</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Burkholder</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jake@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Thomas</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Moestl</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>tmm@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>I am pleased to announce that as of 1 AM Friday October 19th,
|
||||||
|
the sparc64 port boots to single user mode. A few binaries from
|
||||||
|
the base system have been built and verified to work properly.
|
||||||
|
Much of this work is still in review for commit, but will be
|
||||||
|
integrated into the cvs tree as soon as possible. EBus support
|
||||||
|
has been ported from NetBSD, and ISA support has been written.
|
||||||
|
The PCI host bridge code has stabilized, and busdma seems to work
|
||||||
|
correctly now. The sio driver has had EBus support added, and the
|
||||||
|
ATA driver has been modified so that it works on big-endian
|
||||||
|
systems and uses the busdma API. With these changes, a root file
|
||||||
|
system can now be successfully mounted from ATA disks on sparc64,
|
||||||
|
even in DMA mode. The gem driver, which supports Sun GEM and ERI
|
||||||
|
and Apple GMAC and GMAC2 ethernet adaptor, has been ported from
|
||||||
|
NetBSD but has not yet had sufficent testing.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>SYN cache implementation for FreeBSD</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>No new status to report, the code is still waiting to be
|
||||||
|
committed. It is likely that this code will be expanded to
|
||||||
|
include syn cookies as a further fallback mechanism.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Compressed TCP state</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Development on this project has been slowed, pending the
|
||||||
|
commit of the syncache code, as this builds on part of that
|
||||||
|
work.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Network SMP locking</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Not much progress has been made this month, with other
|
||||||
|
projects occupying most of my time. However, reviewing all the
|
||||||
|
code and data structures had a side benefit; a hash table for
|
||||||
|
inet addresses has been added. This will significantly speed up
|
||||||
|
interface address lookups in the case where there are a larger
|
||||||
|
number of interface aliases.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Multiple console support</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Currently, a single device may act as a console at any time,
|
||||||
|
which requires the user to choose the console device at boot
|
||||||
|
time. With the upcoming network console support, it is desirable
|
||||||
|
to allow multiple console devices which behave identically, and
|
||||||
|
to alter consoles while the kernel is running.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>The code is completed, and needs some final polishing to clean
|
||||||
|
up the rough edges. Console output can be sent to both syscons
|
||||||
|
and sio, (as well as the network) and when in ddb, input can be
|
||||||
|
taken from any input source. A small control program allows
|
||||||
|
adding and removing consoles on the fly.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Network console</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>This project's goal is to add low level network functionality
|
||||||
|
to FreeBSD. The initial target is to make a network console
|
||||||
|
available for remote debugging with ddb or gdb. A secondary
|
||||||
|
target is to utilize the code to perform network crash dumps. The
|
||||||
|
design assumes that the network card and driver are working, but
|
||||||
|
does not rely on other parts of the kernel.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Initial development has been fairly rapid, and a minimal
|
||||||
|
TCP/IP stack has been written. It is currently possible to telnet
|
||||||
|
to a machine which is at the ddb> prompt and interact with the
|
||||||
|
debugger.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Network device nodes</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Network devices now support aliases in the form of /dev/netN,
|
||||||
|
where N is the interface index. Devices may be wired down to a
|
||||||
|
specific index number by entries in /boot/device.hints of
|
||||||
|
either:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>hint.net.<ifindex>.dev="devname"
|
||||||
|
hint.net.<ifindex>.ether="ethernet address"</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Additionally, ifconfig has been updated so that it will accept
|
||||||
|
the alias name when configuring a device.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Intel Gigabit driver</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The gx driver has finally been committed to the tree. The
|
||||||
|
driver provides support for the Intel PRO/1000 cards, both fiber
|
||||||
|
and copper variants. The driver supports VLAN tagging and TCP/IP
|
||||||
|
checksum offload.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>KSE</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<email>julian@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/~jasone/kse/" />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/~julian" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>In the last month, not a lot has happenned other than settling
|
||||||
|
in of the big August commit. Largely due to me having a sudden
|
||||||
|
increased workload at work, and a need for increased time to be
|
||||||
|
spent elsewhere. However some design work has proceeded. The API
|
||||||
|
has firmed up somewhat and several people have been reading
|
||||||
|
through what has been done already in order to be able to help in
|
||||||
|
the next phase.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Milestone 3 will be to have the ability to generate and remove
|
||||||
|
multiple threads/KSEs per process. Milestone 3 will NOT require
|
||||||
|
that doing so will be safe. (especially in SMP systems), i.e.
|
||||||
|
locking issues will not be fully addressed, so while some testign
|
||||||
|
will be possible, it will not be possible to actually run in this
|
||||||
|
mode with any load.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>This will require allocators and destructors for the new
|
||||||
|
structures. Creation of the syscalls. Generation of an acurate
|
||||||
|
written API for the userland crew. Writing of the upcall launch
|
||||||
|
code. Production of a userland test program (not a full thread
|
||||||
|
scheduler). Resolution of some of the more glaring
|
||||||
|
incompatibilities (e.g. the scheduler) in a backwards compatible
|
||||||
|
manner. (i.e. if there are no multi threaded processes on a
|
||||||
|
system it should behave the same as now (and be as
|
||||||
|
reliable)).</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Criterea for knowing when we have reached Milestione 3 is the
|
||||||
|
ability for a simple process on an unloaded system to perform a
|
||||||
|
series of blocking syscalls reliably. e.g. open 2 sockets, and
|
||||||
|
send data on one, after having done a read on another,and then
|
||||||
|
'respond' in like manner..</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>PowerPC Port</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Benno</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Rice</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>benno@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>There have been a few major successes in the PowerPC port this
|
||||||
|
month. Mark Peek has succeeded in getting the FreeBSD/PowerPC
|
||||||
|
kernel cross compiled on FreeBSD and booting under the PSIM
|
||||||
|
simulator (now in /usr/ports/emulators/psim-freebsd). I have
|
||||||
|
succeeded in getting the FreeBSD loader to load and execute
|
||||||
|
kernels using the OpenFirmware found on Apple Macintosh hardware.
|
||||||
|
Mark is now working on completing some of the startup and pmap
|
||||||
|
code, while I am taking advantage of the simulator to work on
|
||||||
|
some interrupt and device issues.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD Java Project</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Greg</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lewis</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>glewis@eyesbeyond.com</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/java/">Official FreeBSD Java
|
||||||
|
Project site.</url>
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The project has moved forward on JDK 1.3.1 development this
|
||||||
|
month, with the release of two more patchsets. The team is
|
||||||
|
reasonably confident that the latest patchset is a stable release
|
||||||
|
of the core JDK 1.3.1 tools and classes, when the default "green"
|
||||||
|
threads subsystem is used. This is mostly thanks to hard work by
|
||||||
|
Fuyuhiko Maruyama to stabilise and fix the code. Bill Huey has
|
||||||
|
also been progressing with his work on the "native" threads
|
||||||
|
subsystem, although this hasn't yet reached the stability of
|
||||||
|
"green" threads. Another (arguably the) major highlight of the
|
||||||
|
latest patchset was the integration of NetBSD support by Scott
|
||||||
|
Bartram and Alistair Crooks (the latter of NetBSD packages fame).
|
||||||
|
Hopefully OpenBSD support will follow, making it truly a united
|
||||||
|
BSD Java Project.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Improving FreeBSD startup scripts</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Doug</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Barton</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>DougB@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Gordon</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Tetlow</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>gordont@gnf.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/">Improving
|
||||||
|
FreeBSD startup scripts</url>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~lukem/bibliography.html">
|
||||||
|
Luke Mewburn's papers</url>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/rc/">NetBSD
|
||||||
|
Initialization and Services Control</url>
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>This group is for discussion about the startup scripts in
|
||||||
|
FreeBSD, primarily the scripts in /etc/rc*. Primary focus will be
|
||||||
|
on improvements and importation of NetBSD's excellent work on
|
||||||
|
this topic.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Alright folks, I finally got off my butt last night and put
|
||||||
|
together a roadmap for the migration to the new rc.d init scripts
|
||||||
|
that were imported from NetBSD a long time ago and just sat in
|
||||||
|
the tree.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>M1 (Patch included)
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Setup infrastructure
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Make rcorder compile
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hook rc.subr into the distribution (and mergemaster)
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hook rcorder into the world
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Add toggle in rc.conf to switch between rc_ng and current boot
|
||||||
|
scripts</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>M2
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Get FreeBSD to boot with the new boot scripts
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Rewrite the /etc/rc.d scripts to work with FreeBSD</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>M3
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Add some FreeBSD specific support into rc.subr</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>M4
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Add true dependency checking to the infrastructure so that
|
||||||
|
starting nfsd will start mountd and rpcbind
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
add support into rc.subr
|
||||||
|
<br />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Add dependencies into rc.d scripts</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>I'd like a couple of people to take a look at this and then
|
||||||
|
I'll submit a pr for it if there aren't too many objections. I'm
|
||||||
|
expecting M2 to run into quite a bikeshed, but hey, I got my nice
|
||||||
|
shiny asbestos back from the cleaners.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD C99/POSIX Conformance Project</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Mike</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Barcroft</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>mike@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<common>FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/c99/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The FreeBSD C99/POSIX Conformance Project aims to implement
|
||||||
|
all requirements of the C99 Standard and the latest 1003.1-200x
|
||||||
|
POSIX draft (currently Draft 7). In cases where aspects of the
|
||||||
|
standard cannot be followed, those aspects will be documented in
|
||||||
|
the c99(7) or posix(7) manuals. It is also an aim of this project
|
||||||
|
to implement regression tests to ensure correctness whenever
|
||||||
|
possible.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Patches that implement the <stdint.h> and
|
||||||
|
<inttypes.h> headers, and modifications to printf(3) have
|
||||||
|
been developed and will be committed shortly. They will allow us
|
||||||
|
to use some of the new types C99 introduces, such as intmax_t and
|
||||||
|
the printf(3) conversion specifier "%j".</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>SMPng Status Report</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>John</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Baldwin</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<email>smp@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/smp/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Some progress has been made on the proc locking this month.
|
||||||
|
Also, a new LOCK_DEBUG macro was defined to allow some locking
|
||||||
|
infrastructure to be more efficient. Kernels now only include the
|
||||||
|
filenames of files calling mutex, sx, or semaphore lock
|
||||||
|
operations if the filenames are needed. Also, mutex operations
|
||||||
|
are no longer inlined if any debugging options are turned on. The
|
||||||
|
ucred API was also overhauled to be more locking friendly. A
|
||||||
|
group has also started investigating the tty subsystem to design
|
||||||
|
and possibly implement a locking strategy.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
</report>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
942
en/news/status/report-september-2001.xml
Normal file
942
en/news/status/report-september-2001.xml
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,942 @@
|
||||||
|
<report>
|
||||||
|
<date>
|
||||||
|
<month>September</month>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<year>2001</year>
|
||||||
|
</date>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS"
|
||||||
|
version="1.0">
|
||||||
|
<cvs:keyword name="freebsd">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
|
||||||
|
</cvs:keywords>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<section>
|
||||||
|
<title>Introduction</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>In the month of September, the FreeBSD Project continued its
|
||||||
|
investment in long-term projects, including continuing work on a
|
||||||
|
fine-grained SMP implementation, support for Kernel Schedulable
|
||||||
|
Entities (KSE) supporting highly efficient threading, and
|
||||||
|
broadening support for modern hardware platforms, including Intel's
|
||||||
|
new IA64 architecture, UltraSparc, and PowerPC. Additional focus
|
||||||
|
was placed on the release process, including work on the release
|
||||||
|
notes infrastructure, support for DVD releases, and work on a
|
||||||
|
binary updating tool.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Due to the delay in getting the September report out the door,
|
||||||
|
the November status report will also cover October. During the
|
||||||
|
month of November, we look forward to BSDCon Europe, the first such
|
||||||
|
event outside the continental United States. The USENIX conference
|
||||||
|
paper submission deadlines are also in November, and FreeBSD users
|
||||||
|
and developers are encouraged to submit to the general and FREENIX
|
||||||
|
tracks. Please see www.usenix.org for more information.</p>
|
||||||
|
</section>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>PRFW</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Evan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Sarmiento</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>evms@csa.bu.edu</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/jailuser/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>PRFW provides hooks in the FreeBSD kernel, allowing users to
|
||||||
|
insert their own checks in system calls and various kernel
|
||||||
|
functions. PRFW is nearing 0.5, which will incorporate numerous
|
||||||
|
structural changes such as, much faster per-process hooks, kernel
|
||||||
|
function hooks, plus, a new way of adding hooks which would
|
||||||
|
enable users to reference hooks by a string.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD libh Project</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Alexander</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Langer</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>alex@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Nathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Ahlstrom</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>nra@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/libh.html" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The build process is now creating four different versions of
|
||||||
|
the libs, which include support for TVision, Qt, both or none. I
|
||||||
|
created some first packages from existing ports and installed
|
||||||
|
those libh packages on my system only using libh's tools,
|
||||||
|
including registering all the files in the package database,
|
||||||
|
recording their checksums etc. Patches to the disk editor have
|
||||||
|
been submitted, which include functionality to write the changes
|
||||||
|
in the fdisk part and initial support for a disk label editor.
|
||||||
|
We'll soon have a new committer.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>RELNOTESng</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Bruce A.</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Mah</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>bmah@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE was the first release of FreeBSD with its
|
||||||
|
new-style release documentation. Both English and Japanese
|
||||||
|
versions of these documents were created. Regularly-built
|
||||||
|
snapshots of -CURRENT and 4-STABLE release documentation are now
|
||||||
|
available on the Web site, but they require a little HTML
|
||||||
|
infrastructure to make them viewer-friendly. I intend to continue
|
||||||
|
updating my snapshot site at the URL above, at least for a little
|
||||||
|
while.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Call for help: The hardware compatability lists need to be
|
||||||
|
updated in the areas of the Alpha architecture, USB devices, and
|
||||||
|
PCCARD devices. I'm looking for volunteers to help; interested
|
||||||
|
parties should contact me at the email address above. DocBook
|
||||||
|
experience is not required; familiarity with the hardware above
|
||||||
|
would be very helpful.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Fibre Channel Support</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Matthew</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Jacob</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.feral.com/isp.html" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Bug fixing and move to -STABLE of 2Gb support.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Intel Gigabit Ethernet</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Matthew</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Jacob</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Quite a lot of cleanup of this driver. Bug fixes and some
|
||||||
|
performance enhancements. However, this driver is likely to be
|
||||||
|
removed shortly and replaced by one from Intel itself.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>TIRPC</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Martin</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Blapp</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>mb@imp.ch</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.attic.ch/tirpc.html" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>As you know, in march 2001 the version 2.3 of TIRPC has been
|
||||||
|
comitted together with many userland changes. Alfred Perlstein
|
||||||
|
and Ian Dowse have helped me a lot with the porting effort and if
|
||||||
|
I had problems with understanding the code.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Most bugs are now fixed, some remaining areas to fix are
|
||||||
|
secure RPC (keyserv) and unix domain support. I've patches for
|
||||||
|
these area available. Ian Dowse fixed a lot of outstanding bugs
|
||||||
|
in the rpcbind binary itself. Thank you Ian !</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>The plan is now to migrate slowly towards TIRPC 2.8, which is
|
||||||
|
threadsafe for the server- and clientside. One first patch I've
|
||||||
|
made available on my URL. TIRPC 2.8 is licensed under the "Sun
|
||||||
|
Standards License Version 1.0" and we have to add some license
|
||||||
|
lines and the license itself to all modified files.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>A example is timed_clnt_create.diff which can be found on the
|
||||||
|
homepage.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>binup</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Eric</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Melville</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>eric@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Murray</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Stokely</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>murray@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/updater.html" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The project has gained a mailing list,
|
||||||
|
freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.org - and the source tree has been moved
|
||||||
|
into the projects/ directory in the FreeBSD CVS repository.
|
||||||
|
Current work is focusing on extending the FreeBSD package
|
||||||
|
framework, and the client library should be rewritten and
|
||||||
|
completed by the end of the year.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>TODO: make the projects/ hierarchy into a cvsup distribution
|
||||||
|
and add it to cvs-all. Then update distrib.self.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Porting ppp to hurd & linux</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Brian</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Somers</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>brian@freebsd-services.com</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Status is unchanged since last month. Patches have been
|
||||||
|
submitted to get ppp working under HURD, and mostly under Linux.
|
||||||
|
There are GPL copyright problems that need to be addressed. Many
|
||||||
|
conflicts are expected after the commit of IPv6 support in
|
||||||
|
ppp.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>PPP IPv6 Support</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Brian</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Somers</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>brian@freebsd-services.com</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The software has been committed to -current and seems
|
||||||
|
functional. Outstanding issues include dealing with IPV6CP events
|
||||||
|
(linkup & linkdown scripts) and allocating site-local and
|
||||||
|
global addresses (currently, ``iface add'' is the only way to
|
||||||
|
actually use the link). A bug exists in -stable (running the
|
||||||
|
not-yet-MFC'd ppp code) whereby routing entries are disappearing
|
||||||
|
after a time (around 12 or 24 hours). No further details are yet
|
||||||
|
available.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD DVD generation</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Brian</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Somers</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>brian@freebsd-services.com</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>A two disc set has been mastered and sent for pressing. There
|
||||||
|
are a few surprises with this release - details will be given in
|
||||||
|
the official announcement (at BSDConEurope).</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Netgraph ATM</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Harti</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Brandt</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>brandt@fokus.gmd.de</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>ATM-Forum LAN-emulation version 2.0 without support for QoS
|
||||||
|
has been implemented and tested. The ILMI daemon has been
|
||||||
|
modularized into a general mini-SNMP daemon, an ILMI module and a
|
||||||
|
not yet finished IPOA (IP over ATM) module.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>jpman project</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<email>man-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/man-jp/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>We have finished updating section [125678] manpages to
|
||||||
|
4.4-RELEASE based, 1 week after 4.4-RELEASE is announced. To
|
||||||
|
finish this update, OKAZAKI Tetsurou has imported Ex/Rv macro
|
||||||
|
support on ja-groff-1.17.2_1. SUZUKI Koichi did most Ex/Rv
|
||||||
|
changes on Japanese manpages. He also find some issues of these
|
||||||
|
macro usage on some original manapges and filed a PR. For
|
||||||
|
post-4.4-RELEASE, now we target 4.5-RELEASE. Section 3 update is
|
||||||
|
also in progress.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>New Mount(2) API</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Poul-Henning</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Kamp</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Maxime</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Henrion</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>mux@qualys.com</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>We've made some good progress now, and the new nmount(2)
|
||||||
|
syscall is nearly finished. There is still some work to do to
|
||||||
|
have a working kernel_mount() and to convert all filesystems to
|
||||||
|
use this new API for their VFS_MOUNT() functions.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD/sparc64 port</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jake</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Burkholder</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jake@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Thomas</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Moestl</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>tmm@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>I am pleased to announce that as of 1 AM Friday October 19th,
|
||||||
|
the sparc64 port boots to single user mode. A few binaries from
|
||||||
|
the base system have been built and verified to work properly.
|
||||||
|
Much of this work is still in review for commit, but will be
|
||||||
|
integrated into the cvs tree as soon as possible. EBus support
|
||||||
|
has been ported from NetBSD, and ISA support has been written.
|
||||||
|
The PCI host bridge code has stabilized, and busdma seems to work
|
||||||
|
correctly now. The sio driver has had EBus support added, and the
|
||||||
|
ATA driver has been modified so that it works on big-endian
|
||||||
|
systems and uses the busdma API. With these changes, a root file
|
||||||
|
system can now be successfully mounted from ATA disks on sparc64,
|
||||||
|
even in DMA mode. The gem driver, which supports Sun GEM and ERI
|
||||||
|
and Apple GMAC and GMAC2 ethernet adaptor, has been ported from
|
||||||
|
NetBSD but has not yet had sufficent testing.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>SYN cache implementation for FreeBSD</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>No new status to report, the code is still waiting to be
|
||||||
|
committed. It is likely that this code will be expanded to
|
||||||
|
include syn cookies as a further fallback mechanism.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Compressed TCP state</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Development on this project has been slowed, pending the
|
||||||
|
commit of the syncache code, as this builds on part of that
|
||||||
|
work.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Network SMP locking</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Not much progress has been made this month, with other
|
||||||
|
projects occupying most of my time. However, reviewing all the
|
||||||
|
code and data structures had a side benefit; a hash table for
|
||||||
|
inet addresses has been added. This will significantly speed up
|
||||||
|
interface address lookups in the case where there are a larger
|
||||||
|
number of interface aliases.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Multiple console support</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Currently, a single device may act as a console at any time,
|
||||||
|
which requires the user to choose the console device at boot
|
||||||
|
time. With the upcoming network console support, it is desirable
|
||||||
|
to allow multiple console devices which behave identically, and
|
||||||
|
to alter consoles while the kernel is running.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>The code is completed, and needs some final polishing to clean
|
||||||
|
up the rough edges. Console output can be sent to both syscons
|
||||||
|
and sio, (as well as the network) and when in ddb, input can be
|
||||||
|
taken from any input source. A small control program allows
|
||||||
|
adding and removing consoles on the fly.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Network console</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>This project's goal is to add low level network functionality
|
||||||
|
to FreeBSD. The initial target is to make a network console
|
||||||
|
available for remote debugging with ddb or gdb. A secondary
|
||||||
|
target is to utilize the code to perform network crash dumps. The
|
||||||
|
design assumes that the network card and driver are working, but
|
||||||
|
does not rely on other parts of the kernel.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Initial development has been fairly rapid, and a minimal
|
||||||
|
TCP/IP stack has been written. It is currently possible to telnet
|
||||||
|
to a machine which is at the ddb> prompt and interact with the
|
||||||
|
debugger.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Network device nodes</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Network devices now support aliases in the form of /dev/netN,
|
||||||
|
where N is the interface index. Devices may be wired down to a
|
||||||
|
specific index number by entries in /boot/device.hints of
|
||||||
|
either:</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>hint.net.<ifindex>.dev="devname"
|
||||||
|
hint.net.<ifindex>.ether="ethernet address"</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Additionally, ifconfig has been updated so that it will accept
|
||||||
|
the alias name when configuring a device.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>Intel Gigabit driver</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Jonathan</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lemon</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jlemon@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The gx driver has finally been committed to the tree. The
|
||||||
|
driver provides support for the Intel PRO/1000 cards, both fiber
|
||||||
|
and copper variants. The driver supports VLAN tagging and TCP/IP
|
||||||
|
checksum offload.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>KSE</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<email>julian@freebsd.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/~jasone/kse/" />
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/~julian" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>In the last month, not a lot has happenned other than settling
|
||||||
|
in of the big August commit. Largely due to me having a sudden
|
||||||
|
increased workload at work, and a need for increased time to be
|
||||||
|
spent elsewhere. However some design work has proceeded. The API
|
||||||
|
has firmed up somewhat and several people have been reading
|
||||||
|
through what has been done already in order to be able to help in
|
||||||
|
the next phase.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Milestone 3 will be to have the ability to generate and remove
|
||||||
|
multiple threads/KSEs per process. Milestone 3 will NOT require
|
||||||
|
that doing so will be safe. (especially in SMP systems), i.e.
|
||||||
|
locking issues will not be fully addressed, so while some testign
|
||||||
|
will be possible, it will not be possible to actually run in this
|
||||||
|
mode with any load.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>This will require allocators and destructors for the new
|
||||||
|
structures. Creation of the syscalls. Generation of an acurate
|
||||||
|
written API for the userland crew. Writing of the upcall launch
|
||||||
|
code. Production of a userland test program (not a full thread
|
||||||
|
scheduler). Resolution of some of the more glaring
|
||||||
|
incompatibilities (e.g. the scheduler) in a backwards compatible
|
||||||
|
manner. (i.e. if there are no multi threaded processes on a
|
||||||
|
system it should behave the same as now (and be as
|
||||||
|
reliable)).</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Criterea for knowing when we have reached Milestione 3 is the
|
||||||
|
ability for a simple process on an unloaded system to perform a
|
||||||
|
series of blocking syscalls reliably. e.g. open 2 sockets, and
|
||||||
|
send data on one, after having done a read on another,and then
|
||||||
|
'respond' in like manner..</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>PowerPC Port</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Benno</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Rice</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>benno@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>There have been a few major successes in the PowerPC port this
|
||||||
|
month. Mark Peek has succeeded in getting the FreeBSD/PowerPC
|
||||||
|
kernel cross compiled on FreeBSD and booting under the PSIM
|
||||||
|
simulator (now in /usr/ports/emulators/psim-freebsd). I have
|
||||||
|
succeeded in getting the FreeBSD loader to load and execute
|
||||||
|
kernels using the OpenFirmware found on Apple Macintosh hardware.
|
||||||
|
Mark is now working on completing some of the startup and pmap
|
||||||
|
code, while I am taking advantage of the simulator to work on
|
||||||
|
some interrupt and device issues.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>FreeBSD Java Project</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Greg</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Lewis</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
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<email>glewis@eyesbeyond.com</email>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/java/">Official FreeBSD Java
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Project site.</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>The project has moved forward on JDK 1.3.1 development this
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month, with the release of two more patchsets. The team is
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reasonably confident that the latest patchset is a stable release
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of the core JDK 1.3.1 tools and classes, when the default "green"
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threads subsystem is used. This is mostly thanks to hard work by
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Fuyuhiko Maruyama to stabilise and fix the code. Bill Huey has
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also been progressing with his work on the "native" threads
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subsystem, although this hasn't yet reached the stability of
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"green" threads. Another (arguably the) major highlight of the
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latest patchset was the integration of NetBSD support by Scott
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Bartram and Alistair Crooks (the latter of NetBSD packages fame).
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Hopefully OpenBSD support will follow, making it truly a united
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BSD Java Project.</p>
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</body>
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<project>
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<title>Improving FreeBSD startup scripts</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Doug</given>
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<common>Barton</common>
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</name>
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<email>DougB@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Gordon</given>
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<common>Tetlow</common>
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</name>
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<email>gordont@gnf.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/">Improving
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FreeBSD startup scripts</url>
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<url href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~lukem/bibliography.html">
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Luke Mewburn's papers</url>
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<url href="http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/rc/">NetBSD
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Initialization and Services Control</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>This group is for discussion about the startup scripts in
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FreeBSD, primarily the scripts in /etc/rc*. Primary focus will be
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on improvements and importation of NetBSD's excellent work on
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this topic.</p>
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<p>Alright folks, I finally got off my butt last night and put
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together a roadmap for the migration to the new rc.d init scripts
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that were imported from NetBSD a long time ago and just sat in
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the tree.</p>
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<p>M1 (Patch included)
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<br />
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Setup infrastructure
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<br />
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Make rcorder compile
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<br />
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Hook rc.subr into the distribution (and mergemaster)
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<br />
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Hook rcorder into the world
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<br />
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Add toggle in rc.conf to switch between rc_ng and current boot
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scripts</p>
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<p>M2
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<br />
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Get FreeBSD to boot with the new boot scripts
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<br />
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Rewrite the /etc/rc.d scripts to work with FreeBSD</p>
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<p>M3
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<br />
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Add some FreeBSD specific support into rc.subr</p>
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<p>M4
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<br />
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Add true dependency checking to the infrastructure so that
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starting nfsd will start mountd and rpcbind
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<br />
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add support into rc.subr
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<br />
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Add dependencies into rc.d scripts</p>
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<p>I'd like a couple of people to take a look at this and then
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I'll submit a pr for it if there aren't too many objections. I'm
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|
expecting M2 to run into quite a bikeshed, but hey, I got my nice
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|
shiny asbestos back from the cleaners.</p>
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|
</body>
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|
</project>
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|
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|
<project>
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|
<title>FreeBSD C99/POSIX Conformance Project</title>
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|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>Mike</given>
|
||||||
|
|
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|
<common>Barcroft</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
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|
<email>mike@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<common>FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/c99/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>The FreeBSD C99/POSIX Conformance Project aims to implement
|
||||||
|
all requirements of the C99 Standard and the latest 1003.1-200x
|
||||||
|
POSIX draft (currently Draft 7). In cases where aspects of the
|
||||||
|
standard cannot be followed, those aspects will be documented in
|
||||||
|
the c99(7) or posix(7) manuals. It is also an aim of this project
|
||||||
|
to implement regression tests to ensure correctness whenever
|
||||||
|
possible.</p>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<p>Patches that implement the <stdint.h> and
|
||||||
|
<inttypes.h> headers, and modifications to printf(3) have
|
||||||
|
been developed and will be committed shortly. They will allow us
|
||||||
|
to use some of the new types C99 introduces, such as intmax_t and
|
||||||
|
the printf(3) conversion specifier "%j".</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<project>
|
||||||
|
<title>SMPng Status Report</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<contact>
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<name>
|
||||||
|
<given>John</given>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<common>Baldwin</common>
|
||||||
|
</name>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<person>
|
||||||
|
<email>smp@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||||
|
</person>
|
||||||
|
</contact>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<links>
|
||||||
|
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/smp/" />
|
||||||
|
</links>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<body>
|
||||||
|
<p>Some progress has been made on the proc locking this month.
|
||||||
|
Also, a new LOCK_DEBUG macro was defined to allow some locking
|
||||||
|
infrastructure to be more efficient. Kernels now only include the
|
||||||
|
filenames of files calling mutex, sx, or semaphore lock
|
||||||
|
operations if the filenames are needed. Also, mutex operations
|
||||||
|
are no longer inlined if any debugging options are turned on. The
|
||||||
|
ucred API was also overhauled to be more locking friendly. A
|
||||||
|
group has also started investigating the tty subsystem to design
|
||||||
|
and possibly implement a locking strategy.</p>
|
||||||
|
</body>
|
||||||
|
</project>
|
||||||
|
</report>
|
||||||
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
||||||
<h2>2001</h2>
|
<h2>2001</h2>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<ul>
|
<ul>
|
||||||
|
<li><a href="report-september-2001.html">September, 2001</a></li>
|
||||||
<li><a href="report-august-2001.html">August, 2001</a></li>
|
<li><a href="report-august-2001.html">August, 2001</a></li>
|
||||||
<li><a href="report-july-2001.html">July, 2001</a></li>
|
<li><a href="report-july-2001.html">July, 2001</a></li>
|
||||||
<li><a href="report-june-2001.html">June, 2001</a></li>
|
<li><a href="report-june-2001.html">June, 2001</a></li>
|
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|
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|
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