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<body>
<p>With funding from the &os; Foundation, the &os; forums
were migrated to XenForo software. The new software is far more
were migrated to the XenForo software. The new software is far more
capable and easy to use. While the entire forum team
contributed, &a.danger; did an excellent job
importing existing users and messages and bringing back the
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<p>The Reaper facility, to allow a process to reliably track the
running and exiting state of the whole subtree of the processes,
was added. It is intended to improve tools like timeout(1) or
poudriere, by making it impossible for the runaway granchild to
escape the controlling process. Feature was designed based on
similar facility in the DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some
references to the Solaris contracts. Committed to HEAD in
poudriere, by making it impossible for the runaway grandchild to
escape the controlling process. The feature was designed based on
similar facilities in DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some
references to Solaris contracts. Committed to HEAD in
r275800.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD suspension code does not
ensure that the system, both software and hardware,
is in the steady and consistent state. One aspect is
is in a steady and consistent state. One aspect is
usermode process activity, which is not yet stopped, continuing to
making requests to the hardware. It is not realistic to expect
drivers to be able to correctly handle the calls after
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existing single-threading code, but extending it to allow external
thread to put some processes into stopped state. Also, a facility
to sync filesystems before suspend was added, to ensure that
consistent metadata and as much as possilbe of the cached user
consistent metadata and as much as possible of the cached user
data are on stable storage, to minimize damage of failed
resume.</p>
<p>The code stressed some parts of the system and has lead to
discovery of a numbers of bugs in the different areas,
discovery of a numbers of bugs in different areas,
including process management, buffer cache and syscall
handlers. The bugs were fixed, fixes and the features commmitted
by a series culminating in r275745.</p>
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<p>Implement flexible dependencies.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Test the developement branch.</p>
<p>Test the development branch.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>More developers are needed, check the Issues on Github.</p>
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helpful to:
<ul>
<li>Prepare a migration to a newer version of toolchain components.</li>
<li>Port &os; to newer architecture</li>
<li>Port &os; to a new architecture</li>
<li>Upgrade from a &os; that ships with GCC 4.2 to a version that ship with clang 3.5+ (which need a more modern toolchain than GCC 4.2 to bootstrap).</li>
</ul>
</p>
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</ul>
</p>
<p>Those packages will depend on special version of GCC
<p>Those packages will depend on special versions of GCC
(minimalistic cross-built ready GCC) and on binutils. To use
them run: <tt>make CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc TARGET=powerpc
TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64</tt></p>
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<p>Adapt and upstream the aarch64 patches for binutils 2.25.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Add more pre seeded configurations.</p>
<p>Add more pre-seeded configurations.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
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<p>The FreeBSD GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE and CINNAMON desktop
environments and graphical user interfaces for FreeBSD. GNOME 3 is part
of the GNU Project. MATE is a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop. CINNAMON
is desktop environment using GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2
is a desktop environment using GNOME 3 technologies but with a GNOME 2
look and feel.</p>
<p>This quarter was exciting time for the GNOME Team. We imported
<p>This quarter was an exciting time for the GNOME Team. We imported
GNOME 3.14.0 and CINNAMON 2.2.16 into the ports tree. At the same
time we removed the old GNOME 2.32 desktop. And two weeks later
we updated GNOME to 3.14.2 and CINNAMON to 2.4.2, which was collected
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<body>
<p>Since the last status report, many people have contributed
help in various areas to help with with Continuous Integration
help in various areas to help with Continuous Integration
and Testing in FreeBSD. Some of the highlights include:</p>
<ul>
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<li>&a.rodrigc; gave a presentation "Kyua and Jenkins Testing
Framework" for BSD at the Developer and Vendor summit on
November 3, 2014 in San Jose, California. In the presentation,
&a.rodrigc;'s described how, for every commit to the FreeBSD source
&a.rodrigc; described how, for every commit to the FreeBSD source
tree, nearly 3000 tests are run using kyua inside a bhyve virtual
machine. The kyua test results are exported to JUnit XML format,
which is then used by Jenkins to generate web-based test reports with
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<p>We migrated our Ports development tree to Git and GitHub. Tracking
changes in the official Ports tree and preparing patches is way
easier. Furthermore, we can accept pull requests. All reasons behind
this change are detailed on the blog and the workf-low is described
this change are detailed on the blog and the workflow is described
on the wiki.</p>
<p>The XDC 2014 (X Developer's Conference) was a great conference.
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At this point, FreeBSD 10.0 and later provide that support, at least
on x86.</p>
<p>In the near future, more components from the llvm.org will
<p>In the near future, more components from llvm.org will
be updated in base, with libc++ and libcompiler-rt most likely
being the first.</p>
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<help>
<task>
<p> While most ports that were impacted by this update have
<p>While most ports that were impacted by this update have
already been fixed, there are still a few that do not work with
the clang 3.5.0 update.</p>
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objcopy, and accepts the same command-line arguments. For it to be
a viable replacement for all uses of objcopy in the base system, it
must gain support for writing portable exectuable (PE)
format binaries, which are used in by UEFI boot code.</p>
format binaries, which are used by UEFI boot code.</p>
<p>The ELF Tool Chain project does not currently provide
replacements for as, ld, and objdump. For &os; these tools will
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<help>
<task>
<p> Improve documentation.</p>
<p>Improve documentation.</p>
</task>
<task>
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review. Currently it is planned to commit the PCI infrastructure to
head by the end of January.</p>
<p>In additional to the PCI infrastructure, individual PCI drivers
<p>In addition to the PCI infrastructure, individual PCI drivers
must be extended to implement SR-IOV. An SR-IOV implementation is in
progress for the ixl(4) driver, which supports the Intel XL710 family
of 40G and 10G NICs. Currently it is planned to have this in review