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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
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Report//EN"
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"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
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<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.xml,v 1.7 2010/01/14 15:19:07 gabor Exp $ -->
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<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2009-10-2009-12.xml,v 1.8 2010/01/15 00:58:07 danger Exp $ -->
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<report>
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<date>
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<month>October-December</month>
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<p>This report covers &os; related projects between October and
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December 2009. Obviously, this is the last report in 2009,
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which has shown to be very important for the &os; Project. Beside
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which has shown to be very important for the &os; Project. Besides
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other remarkable things, a new major version of &os;, 8.0-RELEASE, has been
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released, while the release process for 7.3-RELEASE is soon to begin.</p>
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enjoy reading. Let us also use this opportunity to wish you all a
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happy and successful new year for 2010.</p>
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<p>Please note that the next deadline for submissions covering the
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<p>Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the
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period between January and March 2010 is April 15th, 2010.</p>
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</section>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>
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<p>The port for dahdi_dynamic_eth and dahdi_dynamic_ethmf is
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under way.</p>
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</task>
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<task>The port for dahdi_dynamic_eth and dahdi_dynamic_ethmf is
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underway.</task>
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<task>
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<p>More HW drivers need to be ported.</p>
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<task>More HW drivers need to be ported.</task>
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<p>Please let me know if you can provide remote access with
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<task>Please let me know if you can provide remote access with
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serial console to any box with ISDN/T1/E1 HW not currently
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supported by DAHDI for &os; but supported by DAHDI for Linux. I
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am also interested in porting drivers for FXO/FXS cards. Please
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let me know if you can provide a remote access or donate a
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card.</p>
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</task>
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card.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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</contact>
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<body>
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<p>Existing ata(4) infrastructure, which has been around many years
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has various problems and limitations, with respect to modern
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<p>Existing ata(4) infrastructure, which has been around many years,
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has various problems and limitations with respect to modern
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controllers/devices support. A CAM subsystem (used for SCSI), which
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has been around for almost the same time, implements many of the
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algorithms required to solve many problems in a better way. To reduce code
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duplication and better support border cases such as ATAPI and SAS,
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new CAM based ATA implementation has been started in order to use
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a new CAM based ATA implementation has been started in order to use
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its benefits.</p>
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<p>As such, CAM infrastructure has been extended to support different
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transports. New transport has been implemented to support PATA/SATA
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buses. To support ATA disks, new CAM driver ada has been written. ATAPI
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buses. To support ATA disks, a new CAM driver ada has been written. ATAPI
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devices are supported by existing SCSI drivers cd, da, sa, etc. To
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support SATA port-multipliers new CAM driver pmp has been written. To
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support SATA port-multipliers a new CAM driver pmp has been written. To
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support most featured and widespread SATA controllers, new drivers
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ahci(4) and siis(4) have been developed.</p>
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<p>To support legacy ATA controllers, kernel option ATA_CAM has been
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<p>To support legacy ATA controllers, a kernel option ATA_CAM has been
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added. When used, it makes all ata(4) controllers directly
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available to CAM, deprecating ata(4) peripheral drivers and external
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APIs. To make this possible, ata(4) code has been heavily refactored,
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double performance benefit on some workloads, whereas 20-30% is
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quite usual.</p>
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<p>SATA Port Multipliers support makes it easy to build fast and
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cheap storages with huge capacities, by using dozens of SATA drives
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<p>SATA Port Multiplier support makes it easy to build fast and
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cheap storage with huge capacities, by using dozens of SATA drives
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in one system or external enclosures,</p>
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<p>Some of that code has been presented in the recently released &os; 8.0-RELEASE but
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8-STABLE includes much improved version now.</p>
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8-STABLE now includes a much improved version.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>
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<p>Improve timeouts and transport errors recovery.</p>
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</task>
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<task>Improve timeout and transport error recovery.</task>
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<task>
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<p>Improve hot-plug support.</p>
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</task>
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<task>Improve hot-plug support.</task>
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<task>
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<p>Search and fix any show stoppers for legacy ata(4)
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deprecation.</p>
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</task>
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<task>Find and fix any show stoppers for legacy ata(4)
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deprecation.</task>
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<task>
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<p>Write new, more featured driver for Marvell SATA controllers
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(specifications desired).</p>
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</task>
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<task>Write a new, more featured driver for Marvell SATA controllers
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(specifications desired).</task>
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<task>
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<p>Write SAS-specific transport and drivers for SAS HBAs (specifications
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<task>Write SAS-specific transport and drivers for SAS HBAs (specifications
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desired). SAS controllers can support SATA devices and
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multipliers, so it should fit nicely into the new
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infrastructure.</p>
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</task>
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infrastructure.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Fix sporadic rendering freezes</task>
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<task>Fix sporadic rendering freezes.</task>
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<task>Fix JavaScript interpreter, v8, on i386 architecture</task>
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<task>Fix JavaScript interpreter, v8, on i386 architecture.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='proj'>
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<title>SUJ: Journaled SoftUpdates</title>
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<title>SUJ — Journaled SoftUpdates</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<body>
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<p>Recently, a bunch of new device IDs have been added for the
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u3g(4) cellular wireless driver, the list should be comparable now with
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u3g(4) cellular wireless driver; the list should be comparable now with
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other operating systems around. A lot of these devices have a
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feature where the unit first attaches as a disk or CD-ROM that
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contains the Win/Mac drivers. This state should be detected by the
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Update Handbook translation</task>
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<task>Update Handbook translation.</task>
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<task>Update webpage translation</task>
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<task>Update webpage translation.</task>
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<task>Add more article translations</task>
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<task>Add more article translations.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Translate release notes</task>
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<task>Translate release notes.</task>
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<task>Add more article translations</task>
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<task>Add more article translations.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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</project>
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<project cat='proj'>
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<title>webcamd</title>
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<title>The webcamd deamon</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links/>
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<body>
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<p>Historically, &os; has limited the number of supplemental
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groups per process to 15 (NGROUPS_MAX was incorrectly declared to be
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and INT_MAX - 1. We plan to merge this to 8-STABLE before
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8.1-RELEASE.</p>
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</body>
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<help/>
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</project>
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<project cat='net'>
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<title>Syncing pf(4) with OpenBSD 4.5</title>
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<help>
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<task>Solve USB_TIMEOUT problem when sending beacons, and/or
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confirm which chipsets supports AP mode if all of them don't
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confirm which chipsets supports AP mode if all of them do not
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support it.</task>
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<task>Read TX stats for AMRR on AP mode, and/or confirm which
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chipsets supports AP mode if all of them don't support it.</task>
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chipsets supports AP mode if all of them do not support
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it.</task>
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<task>Maintain the code.</task>
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</help>
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</ul>
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<p>The development branch had been updated incorrectly several times over the
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past year, and the damage was too much to repair. We've retired the
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past year, and the damage was too much to repair. We have retired the
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branch and will do further mips development in 9.0-CURRENT for the time
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being. If you have a checked out tree, the suggested way to update
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the projects/mips tree you have is to do a "svn switch
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<help>
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<task>Complete missing pieces for PowerPC (PCI bridge driver conversion to
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FDT)</task>
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FDT).</task>
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<task>Complete ARM support</task>
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<task>Complete ARM support.</task>
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<task>Merge to SVN</task>
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<task>Merge to SVN.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='proj'>
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<title>HAST - Highly Available Storage</title>
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<title>HAST — Highly Available Storage</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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provider (eg. disk, partition, mirror, etc.) or file from one &os;
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machine (primary node) to another one (secondary node).</p>
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<p>Because data is replicated on block level neither application, no
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<p>Because data is replicated at the block level neither applications, nor
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file systems have to be modified to take advantage of this
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functionality.</p>
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<p>The HAST project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p>
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<p>Work is progressing well, first milestone was reached in December
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2009 and the project completion date is January 31, 2010.</p>
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<p>Work is progressing well; first milestone was reached in December
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2009 and the expected project completion date is January 31,
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2010.</p>
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<p>Check out &os; mailing lists for patches to test in February and
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wish me good luck!</p>
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<p>And by the way, don't forget to donate to the &os; Foundation, as your
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<p>And by the way, do not forget to donate to the &os; Foundation, as your
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donations make projects like this possible.</p>
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<p>Thank you!</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Get a list of broken ports</task>
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<task>Get a list of broken ports.</task>
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<task>Fix them to comply to standards</task>
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<task>Fix them to comply to standards.</task>
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<task>Send patches upstream</task>
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<task>Send patches upstream.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<body>
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<p>Good compatibility has been ensured and there are only few pending
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items, which have to be reviewed/enhanced. Recently, an enhancement
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has been completed, which makes it possible to accomplish better
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items which have to be reviewed/enhanced. Recently, an enhancement
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has been completed which makes it possible to accomplish better
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transliteration, just like in the GNU version. An initial testing
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patch is expected at the beginning of February.</p>
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</body>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Commit BSD bc/dc</task>
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<task>Commit BSD bc/dc.</task>
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<task>Implement remaining features for sort and optimize performance</task>
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<task>Implement remaining features for sort and optimize
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performance.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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official release announcement.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='team'>
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<title>&os; Bugbusting Team</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Gavin</given>
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<common>Atkinson</common>
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</name>
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<email>gavin@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Mark</given>
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<common>Linimon</common>
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</name>
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<email>linimon@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Remko</given>
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<common>Lodder</common>
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</name>
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<email>remko@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Volker</given>
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<common>Werth</common>
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</name>
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<email>vwe@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/support.html#gnats">GNATS</url>
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<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BugBusting">BugBusting</url>
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<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/">Experimental
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report pages</url>
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<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recommended_prs.html">PRs
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recommended for committer evaluation by the bugbusting team</url>
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<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/recommended_subscribers.txt">Subscription
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list for the above report)</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>Bugmeister Gavin Atkinson has now been granted a src commit
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bit, and is now starting to work through some of our
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backlog.</p>
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<p>The list of PRs recommended for committer evaluation by the
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Bugbusting Team continues to receive new additions; however, it
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has not yet achieved high visibility. (This list contains PRs,
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mostly with patches, that the Bugbusting Team feel are probably
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ready to be committed as-is, or are probably trivially resolved
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in the hands of a committer with knowledge of the particular
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subsystem.) One of the suggestions at the Cambridge devsummit
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was to create a way for people to be emailed the weekly summary
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that is posted to freebsd-bugs, and this has now been implemented.
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Please email linimon@FreeBSD.org to ask to be added to the
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recommended_subscribers.txt file (see above).</p>
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<p>We continue to classify PRs as they arrive, adding 'tags' to the
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subject lines corresponding to the kernel subsystem involved, or
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man page references for userland PRs. These tags, in turn, produce
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lists of PRs sorted both by tag and by manpage. At this point
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most of the PRs that refer to supported versions of &os; have
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been converted, and we are keeping up as new ones come in. We
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hope that this is making it easier to browse the PR database.</p>
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<p>The overall PR count jumped to over 6200 during the 8.0 release
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cycle, but seems to have stabilized at around 6100. As in the
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past, we have a fairly good clearance rate for ports PRs, but
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much less so for other PRs. (Partly this is due to the concept
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of individual ports having 'maintainers'.)</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Try to find ways to get more committers helping us with
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closing PRs that the team has already analyzed.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='arch'>
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<title>&os;/ia64</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Marcel</given>
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<common>Moolenaar</common>
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</name>
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<email>marcel@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<body>
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<p>Work continues on our ia64 port. Many recent commits to
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help improve stability have been made to -CURRENT and MFCed
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to 8-STABLE.</p>
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<p>Due to interest from one very motivated user, package builds
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have been restarted for ia64-8. This is primarily intended as
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a QA step to discover and fix bugs on ia64, rather than to
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create packages for upload.</p>
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<p>Based on the above, Mark Linimon documented how to add more
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architectures to the package cluster scheduler. (This work will
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also be of use in an upcoming effort to start powerpc package
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builds.)</p>
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<p>There are currently 3 ia64 machines online and building
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packages. The machines seem stable as long as multiple
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simultaneous package builds are not attempted, in which case
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they get machine checks. This is puzzling, since other heavy
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workloads seem stable on the same machines.</p>
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</body>
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||||
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<help>
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<task>Continue to try to understand why multiple simultaneous
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package builds bring the machines down.</task>
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<task>Upgrade the firmware on the two machines at Yahoo! to
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see if that helps the problem.</task>
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<task>Configure a fourth machine that has been made available
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to us.</task>
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<task>Figure out the problems with the latest gcc port on
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ia64.</task>
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<task>We can use some help with reviewing the ia64 platform pages
|
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and bringing them up-to-date.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='net'>
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<title>bwn(4) - Broadcom Wireless driver</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Weongyo</given>
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<common>Jeong</common>
|
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</name>
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<email>weongyo@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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|
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<links>
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||||
<url href="http://p4db.FreeBSD.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/weongyo/wireless/src/sys/dev/bwn&HIDEDEL=NO">bwn(4)
|
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sources in P4</url>
|
||||
</links>
|
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|
||||
<body>
|
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<p>bwn(4) is replacing bwi(4) driver for to the following
|
||||
reasons:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
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<li>Uses latest v4 firmware image instead of using v3 which is
|
||||
enough old one so we could have benefits supporting N-PHYs or
|
||||
fixes various firmware bugs.</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>Supports PIO mode that as you might Broadcom Wireless Driver
|
||||
is created by reverse-engineering so AFAIK some H/W does not
|
||||
work with DMA operations.</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>Supports 64 bit DMA operations.</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>Separates bwi(4) driver into two parts; siba(4) driver and
|
||||
bwn(4) driver. AFAIK many Broadcom wirelesses or NIC devices
|
||||
are based on Silicon Sonics Backplane and bwi(4) was one of
|
||||
them but in a case of bwi(4) it had implemented siba(4)
|
||||
driver internally so other drivers which were willing to use
|
||||
the SIBA APIs had to implement their own routines. In bwn(4)
|
||||
I wanted to avoid it.</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Currently it is tested on big/little endian machines and 32/64
|
||||
bits DMA operation with STA mode. A major patch for siba(4)
|
||||
is being reviewed before committing into HEAD.</p>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
|
||||
<help>
|
||||
<task>MESH/IBSS/HOSTAP mode is not supported.</task>
|
||||
|
||||
<task>LP/N PHYs are not supported.</task>
|
||||
</help>
|
||||
</project>
|
||||
|
||||
<project cat='team'>
|
||||
<title>&os; Release Engineering</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 announced &os; 8.0-RELEASE on
|
||||
November 26th, 2009. With 8.0-RELEASE completed planning has
|
||||
begun for 7.3-RELEASE. The schedule has been set with the
|
||||
release date planned for early March 2010.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Release Engineering Team would like to thank George
|
||||
Neville-Neil (gnn@) for his service on the team. George
|
||||
continues to work with the &os; Project but has stepped down
|
||||
from the Release Engineering Team to focus on those other
|
||||
activities.</p>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</project>
|
||||
|
||||
<project cat='net'>
|
||||
<title>IP Payload Compression Protocol support</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<contact>
|
||||
<person>
|
||||
<name>
|
||||
<given>Bjoern A.</given>
|
||||
<common>Zeeb</common>
|
||||
</name>
|
||||
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
|
||||
</person>
|
||||
</contact>
|
||||
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<p>One of the longer outstanding feature problems with the &os;
|
||||
IP security stack, broken IP Payload Compression Protocol
|
||||
(IPcomp) support, has been fixed.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>While working on the fix, various problems had been
|
||||
identified:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>problems with the IPcomp packet handling in IPsec.</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>opencrypto compression handling and deflate implementation
|
||||
limitations. These were debugged using DTrace SDT
|
||||
probes.</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>problems due to an outdated version of zlib used in some
|
||||
parts of the network stack and by the opencrypto
|
||||
framework</li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Patches for all but the zlib support have been committed to
|
||||
HEAD and merged to all supported stable branches including
|
||||
RELENG_6. Special thanks to Eugene Grosbein for helping with
|
||||
testing.</p>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
|
||||
<help>
|
||||
<task>Fix ng_deflate so that we could make use of Kip Macy's work
|
||||
on an up-to-date unified zlib version in the kernel, which
|
||||
would also fix the last occasional IPcomp hiccups.</task>
|
||||
</help>
|
||||
</project>
|
||||
|
||||
<project cat='team'>
|
||||
<title>The &os; Foundation Status Report</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<contact>
|
||||
<person>
|
||||
<name>
|
||||
<given>Deb</given>
|
||||
<common>Goodkin</common>
|
||||
</name>
|
||||
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
|
||||
</person>
|
||||
</contact>
|
||||
|
||||
<links>
|
||||
<url href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org" />
|
||||
</links>
|
||||
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<p>Despite a difficult economy, we more than doubled our number
|
||||
of donors, we raised $269k towards our goal of $300k, and with
|
||||
an improved economy hope to surpass that this year.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We funded two new projects. One is the Flattened Device Tree by
|
||||
Rafal Jaworowski. And, the second one is Highly Available Storage
|
||||
by Pawel Jakub Dawidek. We continued supporting the New Console
|
||||
Driver by Ed Schouten and Improvements to the &os; TCP Stack by
|
||||
Lawrence Stewart. We also purchased equipment for several
|
||||
projects.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We have big plans for the new year! We are going to significantly
|
||||
increase our project development and equipment spending. Stay
|
||||
tuned for a project proposal submission announcement soon. We
|
||||
just announced that we are accepting travel grant applications
|
||||
for AsiaBSDCon and will be accepting them soon for BSDCan. And,
|
||||
we are working on infrastructure projects to beef up hardware
|
||||
for package-building, network-testing, etc.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Read more about how we supported the project and community by
|
||||
reading our end-of-year newsletter available at <a
|
||||
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2009Dec-newsletter.shtml">http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2009Dec-newsletter.shtml</a>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Follow us on <a
|
||||
href="https://twitter.com/freebsdfndationTwitter">https://twitter.com/freebsdfndationTwitter</a> now!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We are fund-raising for 2010 now! Find out more at <a
|
||||
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</project>
|
||||
</report>
|
||||
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