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<tt>evdev</tt>-dependent ports.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os;/arm64</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Andrew</given>
<common>Turner</common>
</name>
<email>andrew@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Jared</given>
<common>McNeill</common>
</name>
<email>jmcneill@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/arm64">&os; arm64 Wiki Entry</url>
<url href="https://github.com/wca/crochet/tree/add-pine64-support">Using Crochet to Build &os; Images</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Transparent superpage support has been added. This will allow
&os; to create 2MiB blocks with a single pagetable and TLB entry.
This has shown a small but significant improvement in the
buildworld time on ThunderX machines. Superpages have been
enabled in head with and merged to stable/11, but they are
disabled by default on stable/11 due to a lack of testing
there.</p>
<p>Support for the pre-INTRNG interrupt framework has been
removed. This means that arm64 requires INTRNG to even build.
This has allowed various cleanups within the arm64 drivers that
interact with the interrupt controller.</p>
<p>The cortex Strings library from Linaro has been imported. The
parts of this that have been shown to be improvements over the
previous C code were attached to the libc build.</p>
<p>There is ongoing work to add ACPI support to the kernel. On
ThunderX, &os; can get to the mountroot prompt, however, due to
incomplete ACPI tables the external PCIe support needed to support
the netboot setup in the test cluster is not functional.</p>
<p>Pine64 support has been committed to head. &os; can now boot
to multiuser with SMP enabled. This includes support for clocks,
the secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs, non-maskable
interrupts, the AXP81x power management unit, cpu freqency and
voltage scaling, MMC, UART, gigabit networking, the watchdog, and
the thermal sensors.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>
The FreeBSD Foundation
</sponsor>
<sponsor>
ABT Systems Ltd
</sponsor>
</project>
</report>