diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.xml b/en/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.xml index c50071d4bd..1545b4e6fb 100644 --- a/en/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.xml +++ b/en/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.xml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + October-December @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> - Need some fresh -exp runs to check the new status esp with + Need some fresh -exp runs to check the new status especially with ruby 1.9.3-p0. @@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

Two new libraries, libc++ (providing a C++11 STL implementation) and libcxxrt (providing an implementation of the C++ ABI - specification). This is enabled by adding WITH_LIBCPLUSPLUS=yes to - src.conf. It is not enabled by default because libc++ does not - build with the version of gcc in the base system and requires you - to build with clang.

+ specification) have been added. This is enabled by adding + WITH_LIBCPLUSPLUS=yes to src.conf. It is not enabled by default + because libc++ does not build with the version of gcc in the base + system and requires you to build with clang.

Once it is built, you can select between using GNU libstdc++ and libc++ by adding -stdlib=libc++ or -stdlib=libstdc++ to your @@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> -

GEOM MULTIPATH class took major rewrite to fix many problems and - improve functionality, including:

+

The GEOM MULTIPATH class underwent a major rewrite to fix many + problems and improve functionality, including:

-

This changes are now committed into the &os; HEAD branch. Merge +

These changes are now committed into the &os; HEAD branch. Merge to 9-STABLE and 8-STABLE is planned after 9.0 release.

Project sponsored by iXsystems, Inc.

@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> Implement some additional request ordering mechanism for the Active/Active mode. Some consumers in theory may not wait for previous requests completion before submitting new overlapping or - dependent requests. Those requests may reorder on device if run via - different paths simultaneously. + dependent requests. Those requests may be reordered on device if + run via different paths simultaneously. @@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

Significantly updated CARP protocol has been committed to head/. - I expect the new code to be more easy to maintain and less buggy, - since it uses less hacks to the networking stack.

+ I expect the new code to be easier to maintain and less buggy, + since it uses less hacks in the networking stack.

The new CARP does not bring a lot of new features, however here is a couple:

@@ -503,8 +503,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> complete support for NFSv4.0, as well as NFSv3 and NFSv2. NFSv4.0 delegations are not enabled by default for the server, since there is no handling of them for local system calls done on the server, - as yet. Sofar, the transition seems to have gone alright, with only - a couple of obscure issues identified sofar that did not get fixed + as yet. So far, the transition seems to have gone alright, with only + a couple of obscure issues identified that did not get fixed for &os; 9.0. Patches for these can be found at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~rmacklem @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> current code includes functioning support for the required components, in particular, sessions for both fore and back channels. Development for the big optional component pNFS is in - progress and with hopefully be functional for the Files layout in a + progress and will hopefully be functional for the Files layout in a few months. The modified sources can be found at http://svn.FreeBSD.org/viewvc/base/projects/nfsv4.1-client.

@@ -668,15 +668,15 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

We are proud to announce that the &os; Haskell Team has updated the Haskell Platform to 2011.4.0.0, as well as updated GHC to 7.0.4 - in &os; Haskell ports repository. We also added number of new - Haskell ports, and there count is now more than 300. Some of the + in &os; Haskell ports repository. We also added a number of new + Haskell ports, and their count is now more than 300. Some of the new ports include Yesod, Happstack (popular web development frameworks in Haskell), ThreadScope (a graphical profiler tool for parallel Haskell programs).

Due to ports repository freeze for 9.0-RELEASE, these updates - are not in official ports tree yet. They will be committed to ports - repository after ports tree is unfreezed again, in the meantime + are not in official ports tree yet. They will be committed to the + ports repository after it is unfrozen again, in the meantime they can be accessed through &os; Haskell ports repository.

@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> Using more NewBus bells and whistles allows to properly see HDA structure with standard system instruments, such as `devinfo -v`. Biggest driver file size now is 150K, instead of 240K before, and - the code is much more clean. + the code is much cleaner.
  • Support for multichannel recording was added. While I have never seen it configured by default, UAA specification tells that @@ -783,15 +783,15 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> examples.
  • Signal tracer was improved to look for cases where several - DACs/ADCs in CODEC can work with the same audio signal. If such - case found, driver registers additional playback/record stream - (channel) for the pcm device. Having more then one stream allows + DACs/ADCs in CODEC can work with the same audio signal. If such a + case is found, the driver registers additional playback/record stream + (channel) for the pcm device. Having more than one stream allows to avoid vchans use and so avoid extra conversion to vchan's pre-configured sample rate and format. Not many CODECs allow this, especially on playback, but some do.
  • New controller streams reservation mechanism was implemented. - That allows to have more pcm devices then streams supported by + That allows to have more pcm devices than streams supported by the controller (usually 4 in each direction). Now it limits only number of simultaneously transferred audio streams, that is rarely reachable and properly reported if happens.
    • @@ -806,10 +806,10 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> clicks.
  • Driver now decodes pins location and connector type names. In - some cases it allows to hint user where on the system case - connectors, related to the pcm device, are located. Number of + some cases it gives a hint to the user where the connectors of + the pcm device are located on the system case. The number of channels supported by pcm device, reported now (if it is not 2), - should also make search easier.
    • + should also make finding them easier.

    The code is in testing now and should be soon committed to the @@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> Closer inspection of HDMI/DisplayPort audio is planned. - Number of hardware, mostly laptops, need workarounds to work + A number of hardware, mostly laptops, need workarounds to work properly. Some statistics should be collected to implement some of them avoiding excessive code bloat. @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    BIO_DELETE support (aka TRIM) was added to the CAM SCSI Direct Access device driver (da).

    -

    Depending on device capabilities different methods used to +

    Depending on device capabilities different methods are used to implement it. Currently used method can be read/set via kern.cam.da.X.delete_method sysctls. Possible values are:

    @@ -867,17 +867,17 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    The last two methods (UNMAP and WS16) are defined by SBC specification and the UNMAP method is the most advanced one. The - rest of methods I have found supported in Linux, and as soon as they - were trivial to implement, then why not? Hope they will be useful + rest of the methods I have found supported in Linux, and as they + were trivial to implement, then why not? I hope they will be useful in some cases.

    As side product of fetching logical block provisioning support flag, da driver also got support for reporting device physical sector size (aka Advanced Format) via stripesize/stripeoffset GEOM - fields. For known 4K sector disks not reporting it properly number - of quirks were added.

    + fields. Some quirks were added for known 4K sector disks not + reporting it properly.

    -

    The code was committed to the HEAD branch and going to be merged +

    The code was committed to the HEAD branch and is going to be merged to 8/9-STABLE after some time.

    Project sponsored by iXsystems, Inc.

    @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> actual translation, was done by him. We thank Christopher very much.

    -

    The other chapter that was translated of the new bsdinstall +

    The other chapter that was translated is the new bsdinstall chapter. Benedict Reuschling did the work on this chapter. He tried to keep the same titles for sections that are mostly describing the same things as in the sysinstall chapter (at least where this was @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> Catch up with the latest changes made to the documentation. - Translate more www pages into german. + Translate more www pages into German. Find bugs in the German documentation and fix them. @@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    This year we started work on GNOME 3.0. Due to time constrains and lack of man power, this version did not make it into the ports. - Current we have 3.2 in our development repo. See the development + Currently we have 3.2 in our development repo. See the development FAQ on our website for details. The MC-UPDATING file contains upgrade instructions.

    @@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    The audistdistd will allow to reliably and securely distribute audit trail files over TCP/IP network to remote system. In case of - system compromise it will enable administrator to analyze audit + system compromise it will enable administrators to analyze audit records in trusted environment.

    This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation and should be @@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> prototyped in p4 and merged into mainstream &os; with support from the &os; Foundation and iXsystems earlier in 2011 for World IPv6 Day continued as a free time project. Thanks to the help of an - anonymous source, dedicated i386 and amd64 build machine and a + anonymous source, dedicated i386 and amd64 build machines and a distribution node were setup to allow continuous building of snapshots and we hope to extend the support for the snapshots in the future providing more services.

    @@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    This work is extending current Book-E support in &os; towards PPC4xx processors variation along with device drivers for - integrated peripherials.

    + integrated peripherals.

    The following drivers have been created since the last report:

    @@ -1458,9 +1458,9 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd"> Sheeva embedded CPU. These devices integrate up to four ARMv6/v7 compliant Sheeva CPU cores with shared L2 cache.

    -

    This work is extending &os;/arm infrastructure towards support +

    This work is extending the &os;/arm infrastructure towards support for recent ARM architecture variations along with a basic set of - device drivers for integrated peripherials.

    + device drivers for integrated peripherals.

    The following code has been implemented since the last status report:

    @@ -1626,10 +1626,10 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    pkgng now has real safe binary upgrade, as well as real - intregrity checking, work has been started to have the ports tree - to be able to bootstrap pkgng. More info on the - CFT.

    + CFT email..

    The pointyhat-west build machine continues toward production use, code updates have made it more versatile such as swapping out