diff --git a/en/news/status/Makefile b/en/news/status/Makefile index 6ae06258ae..76b24e31cf 100644 --- a/en/news/status/Makefile +++ b/en/news/status/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.11 2001/12/12 11:57:37 phantom Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.12 2001/12/13 19:30:09 phantom Exp $ .if exists(../Makefile.conf) .include "../Makefile.conf" @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ DATA= report-june-2001.html DATA+= report-july-2001.html DATA+= report-august-2001.html DATA+= report-september-2001.html +DATA+= report-november-2001.html # Install a sample entry. DATA+= report-sample.xml diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2001-11.xml b/en/news/status/report-2001-11.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..903eefe732 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/status/report-2001-11.xml @@ -0,0 +1,1026 @@ + + + + + November + + 2001 + + +
+ Introduction + +

This months report covers activity during the second half of + October, and the month of November. During these months, + substantial work was performed to improve system performance and + stability, in particular addressing concerns regarding regressions + in network performance for the TCP protocol, and via the + introduction of polled network device driver support. Work + continues on long-term architectural projects for 5.0, including + KSEs, NEWCARD, and TrustedBSD, as well as the cleaning up of + long-standing problems in FreeBSD, such as PAM integration. + Administrative changes are also documented, including work to + redefine and formalize the release engineering process, and the + approval of a new portmgr group which will administer the ports + collection.

+ +

FreeBSD users and developers are strongly encouraged to attend + the USENIX BSD Conference in February of next year; it is expected + that this will be a useful forum both for learning about FreeBSD + and on-going work, as well as providing an opportunity for + developers to work more closely and act as a vehicle for discussion + and round-the-clock hacking. More information is available at the + USENIX web site.

+ +

Robert Watson

+
+ + + TCP Performance Improvements + + + + + Matthew + + Dillon + + + dillon@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + +

A number of serious TCP bugs effecting throughput snuck into + the system over the last few releases and have finally been + fixed. TCP performance should be greatly improved for a number of + cases, including TCP/NFS.

+ + + + + Intel Gigabit Driver: wx desupported + + + + + Matthew + + Jacob + + + mjacob@feral.com + + + + + + + +

The wx driver is desupported and removed from -current. No + further support for wx in -stable is planned. Newer and better + drivers are now in the tree.

+ + + + + Fibre Channel Support + + + + + Matthew + + Jacob + + + mjacob@feral.com + + + + + Qlogic ISP Host Adapter + Software + + + +

Ongoing bug fixes. Work is underway, to be integrated shortly, + that makes the cross platform endian support easier and will + prepare the FreeBSD version for eventual sparc64 and PowerPC + usage.

+ + + + + TrustedBSD Audit + + + + + John + + Doe + + + trustedbsd-audit@trustedbsd.org + + + + + + TrustedBSD Project + Homepage + + + +

Currently, we are exploring a variety of strategies to learn + about the implementation and performance issues in order to have + a solid design. One of our main goals will be to use a + standardized interface to the system, whether it be POSIX.1e, or + another of the other standards, because as they say "Standards + are great because you have so many to choose from." Hopefully + within the next month or so, we will populate the perforce + TrustedBSD tree with an agreed upon framework that is ready for + serious final work.

+ + + + + Pluggable Authentication Modules + + + + + Mark + + Murray + + + markm@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Dag-Erling + + Smørgrav + + + des@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

On the code side, a number of libpam bugs have been fixed; a + new PAM module, + pam_self(8) + + , has been written; and preparations have been made for + transitioning from + /etc/pam.conf + + to + /etc/pam.d + + .

+ +

On the documentation side, new manual pages have been written + for + pam_ssh(8) + + , + pam_get_item(3) + + and + pam_set_item(3) + + , and work has started on a longer article about PAM which is + expected to be finished by the end of the year.

+ +

A lot of work still remains to be done to integrate PAM more + tightly with the FreeBSD base system—particularly the + passwd(1) + + , + chpass(1) + + etc. utilities—and ports collection.

+ + + + + Status Report: mb_alloc (-CURRENT mbuf allocator) + + + + + Bosko + + Milekic + + + bmilekic@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Code + Dump and Preliminary Results + + + +

Presently re-style(9)ing mbuf code with the help of Bruce + (bde). The next larger step is approaching: to better + performance, as initially planned, not have reference counters + for clusters allocated separately via malloc(9). Rather, use some + of the [unused] space at the end of each cluster as a counter; + since this space is totally unused and since ref. counter + <--> mbuf cluster is a one-to-one relationship, this is + most convenient.

+ + + + + FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering + + + + + Murray + + Stokely + + + murray@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD + Release Engineering. + + FreeBSD + 4.5 Release Process / Schedule. + + + +

Release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5 have begun. An + overview of the entire process has been added to the FreeBSD web + site, along with a specific schedule for 4.5. The code freeze is + scheduled to start on December 20. The team responsible for + responding to MFC requests sent to re@FreeBSD.org for this + release is: Murray Stokely, Robert Watson, and John Baldwin. Some + of our many goals for this release include closing more + installation-related problem reports, being more conservative + with our approval of changes during the code freeze, and + continuing to document the entire process. For suggestions or + questions about FreeBSD 4.5 release activities, please subscribe + to the public freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org mailing list.

+ + + + + Web site conversion to XML + + + + + Nik + + Clayton + + + nik@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Work is (slowly) progressing on converting the web site to use + pages marked up in a simple XML schema, and then generating HTML + and other output formats using XSLT style sheets. The work so far + can be tested by doing "cvs checkout -r XML_XSL_XP www" and then + "cd www/en; make index.html". Take a look at index.page in the + same directory to see the source XML. The CVS logs for index.page + contain detailed instructions explaining how index.page was + generated from its earlier form.

+ + + + + FreeBSD in Bulgarian + + + + + Peter + + Pentchev + + + roam@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + + +

The FreeBSD in Bulgarian project aims to bring a more + comfortable working environment to Bulgarian users of the FreeBSD + OS. This includes, but is not limited to, font, keymap and locale + support, translation of the FreeBSD documentation into Bulgarian, + local user groups and various forms of on-line help channels and + discussion forums to help Bulgarians adopt and use FreeBSD.

+ +

Bulgarian locale support has been committed to FreeBSD + 5.0-CURRENT (and later merged into 4.x-STABLE on December 10th). + A local CVS repository for the translation of the FreeBSD + documentation into Bulgarian has been created.

+ + + + + New mount(2) API + + + + + Poul-Henning + + Kamp + + + phk@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Maxime + + Henrion + + + mux@qualys.com + + + + + + + + +

There is now some code ready for the new mount API, which has + to be reviewed and tested. If it is adopted, we will probably + start converting all the filesystems, as well as other code in + the kernel, to make them use it. If you want to play with it, the + patch is available at the above URL.

+ + + + + Network interface cloning and modularity + + + + + Brooks + + Davis + + + brooks@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Support for VLAN cloning has been merged from current and will + ship with 4.5-RELEASE. Additionaly, new rc.conf support for + cloning interfaces at boot has been MFD'd. Work is ongoing to MFC + stf and faith cloning as well as adding cloning for ppp devices + and enhancing VLAN modularity.

+ + + + + Device Polling + + + + + Luigi + + Rizzo + + + luigi@iet.unipi.it + + + + + Web page + with code and detailed description. + + + +

This work uses a mixed interrupt-polling architecture to + handle network device drivers, giving the system substantial + improvements in terms of stability and robustness to overloads, + as well as the ability to control the sharing of CPU between + network-related kernel processing and other user/kernel tasks. + Last not least, you might even see a moderate (up to 20-30%, + machine dependent) performance improvement.

+ + + + + RELNOTESng + + + + + Bruce + + Mah + + + bmah@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + + +

I've been working on making the Hardware Notes less + i386-centric. This will be especially important for -CURRENT as + the ia64 and sparc ports reach maturity; most of this work should + be completed in time to be MFC-ed for FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. I + encourage any interested parties to review the release + documentation and send me comments or patches.

+ + + + + FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Port + + + + + Matthew + + N. + + Dodd + + + mdodd@FreeBSD.org + + + + + News and + Status. + + FTP + directory. + + + +

The port of the driver is around 90% feature complete. AGP + support and "Registry" support via sysctl need to be + finished/implemented. The NVIDIA guys are working on a build of + the X11 libs and extensions for FreeBSD; once this is done + hardware accelerated direct rendering should work. The previous + version this driver is no longer available. I'm planning on + making a snapshot of my code once I chase out a few more + bugs.

+ +

Please note that development is taking place under -CURRENT + right now; a port to -STABLE will be available at some later + time.

+ + + + + jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project + + + + + Makoto + + Matsushita + + + matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org + + + + + Project + Webpage + + + Anonymous FTP + + + +

jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project is yet another + snapshots server that provides latest 4-stable and 5-current + distribution. You also find installable ISO image, live + filesystem, HTMLed source code with search engine, and more; + please check project webpage for more details.

+ + + + + UDF Filesystem + + + + + Scott + + Long + + + scottl@FreeBSD.org + + + + + UDF + Filesystem. + + + +

Modest gains have been made on the UDF filesystem since the + last report. Reading of files from DVD-ROM now works (and is + fast, according to some reports), and there is preliminary + support for reading from CD-RW media. The CD-RW support has only + been tested against CD's created with Adaptec/ Roxio DirectCD, + and much, much more testing is needed. Once this support is + solid, I plan to check it into the tree and start work on making + the filesystem writable.

+ + + + + NEWCARD/OLDCARD Status report + + + + + Warner + + Losh + + + imp@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Not much to report. A number of minor bugs in OLDCARD have + been corrected. A larger number of machines now work. Additional + work on ToPIC support has been committed, but continued lack of a + suitable ToPIC machine has left the author unable to do much + work. A few stubborn machines still need to be supported (the + author has an example of one such machine, so there is hope for + it being fixed. Some pci related issues remain for both OLDCARD + and NEWCARD.

+ +

NEWCARD work is ramping up, while OLDCARD work is ramping + down. A number of things remain to be done for NEWCARD, including + suspend/ resume support, generic device arrival/removal daemon + and hopefully automatic loading of drivers. A number of current + pccard drivers still need to be converted to NEWBUS. Several + Chipset issues remain, as does the merging of isa pccard bridge + code with the pccbb code.

+ + + + + GEOM - generalized block storage manipulation + + + + + Poul-Henning + + Kamp + + + phk@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Old concept paper + here. + + + +

This project is now finally underway, thanks to DARPA and NAI + getting a sponsorship lined up. The infrastructure code and data + structures are currently taking form inside a userland simulation + harness.

+ + + + + jpman project + + + + + Kazuo + + Horikawa + + + horikawa@FreeBSD.org + + + + + User and developer + information (in Japanese). + + + +

Targeting 4.5-RELEASE, we continued to revising + doc/ja_JP.eucJP/man/man[1256789] to catch up with RELENG_4. + Section 3 updating has 45% finished.

+ + + + + LOMAC Status Report + + + + + Brian + + Feldman + + + green@FreeBSD.org + + + + + NAI Labs' LOMAC + page + + + +

A FreeBSD -CURRENT snapshot with LOMAC is currently being + prepared, with aid of Perforce on the "green_lomac" branch. Very + soon there should be a working demonstration installation CD of + FreeBSD with LOMAC, including the ability to enable LOMAC in + rc.conf with sysinstall, being a legitimate "out-of-the-box" + FreeBSD experience. Actual release build is pending debugging + issues with program start-up (especially xdm).

+ + + + + ATA Project Status Report + + + + + Søren Schmidt + + + sos@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Work is underways to support failing mirror disks better and + handle hotswapping in a new replacement disk and have it rebuild + automagically.

+ +

Support for the Promise TX4 is now working in my lab, seems + they did the PCI-PCI bridging in the not so obvious way.

+ +

Plans are in the works to backport the -current ATA driver to + -stable with hotswap and the works. Now that -current is delayed + I'm working on ways to give me time to get this done, since I've + had lots of requests lately and we really can't let down our + customers :).

+ +

SMART support is being worked on, but no timelines yet.

+ +

Although not strictly ATA, Promise has equipped me with a + couple SuperTrak sx6000 RAID controllers, they take 6 ATA disks + and does RAID0-5 in hardware. I have done a driver (its an I2O + device) for both -current and -stable and it works butifully with + hotswap the works. It will enter the tree when it is more mature, + and I have an agreement with Promise on how we handle userland + control util etc. BTW it seems it can also be used as a normal 6 + channel PCI ATA controller, a bit on the expensive side + maybe...

+ + + + + Revised {mode,log}page support for camcontrol + + + + + Kelly + + Yancey + + + kbyanc@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Extending camcontrol's page definition file format to include + both modepage and logpage definitions; adding support to + camcontrol to query and reset log page parameters. Consideration + is being made to possibly include support for diagnostic and + vital product data pages, but that is outside the current project + scope. New page definition file format includes capability to + conditionally include page definitions based on SCSI INQUIRY + results allowing vendor-specific pages to be described also. + Approximately 80% complete.

+ + + + + FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project + + + + + Mike + + Barcroft + + + mike@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List + + + standards@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

Work on the FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project is + progressing nicely. Since the last status report, two new headers + have been added [<stdint.h> and <inttypes.h>], + several new functions implemented [atoll(3), imaxabs(3), + imaxdiv(3), llabs(3), lldiv(3), strerror_r(3), strtoimax(3), and + strtoumax(3)], and changes to assert(3) and printf(3) were made + to support C99. More printf(3) changes are in the works to + support the remaining C99 and POSIX requirements. Additionally, + research was done into our POSIX Utility conformance and a list + of tasks was derived from that research.

+ +

Several other interesting events occurred during November and + the beginning of December. The project mailing list was moved to + the FreeBSD.org domain, and is now available at + standards@FreeBSD.org. On December 6, 2001, the IEEE Standards + Board approved the Austin Group Specification as IEEE Std + 1003.1-2001, thus making the work we're doing ever more + important.

+ + + + + Improving FreeBSD startup scripts + + + + + Doug Barton + + Commiter + + + DougB@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Gordon Tetlow + + Contributor + + + gordont@gnf.org + + + + + Improving + FreeBSD startup scripts + + + Luke Mewburn's papers + + NetBSD + Initialization and Services Control + + + <-- from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/ --> +

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.

+ + <-- from Gordon Tetlow's ranting --> +

Due to personal commitments by the folks working on this project + we have been unable to spend much time porting the rc.d + infrastructure into the FreeBSD boot framework.

+ +

Currently, the system will boot (with a little fudging) just + before network utilization. There are patches floating around for + this (see the -arch list from September).

+ + + + + KSEs + + + + + Julian + + Elischer + + + julian@FreeBSD.org + + + + + My web-page with + links + + Jason Evans' KSE + page. + + + + +

I have been working behind the scenes on design rather than + programming for this last month. I have been working however in + the p4 tree to make the system run with the thread structure NOT + a part of the proc structure (a prerequisite fo threading)

+ + + + + Ports Manager Team (portmgr) + + + + + Will + + Andrews + + + will@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Ports build cluster + + + +

After a discussion with the Core Team about our status + regarding the ports collection, we heard from them that they'd + decided to recognize us as the final authority for approving + ports committers. We've spent the last few weeks working on our + ports build cluster (see the link) and trying to find ways to + improve it for the ports development community. We've also + handled a few minor issues in the ports collection.

+ + + + + TrustedBSD Project + + + + + Robert + + Watson + + + rwatson@FreeBSD.org + + + + + TrustedBSD Home Page + + + +

The TrustedBSD Project continued focussing development efforts + on fine-grained Capabilities and Mandatory Access Control this + month. Kernel support for capabilities is essentially complete, + and efforts are underway to adapt userland applications to use + Capabilities. The login process has been updated to allow users + to run with additional privilege based on /etc/capabilities. The + MAC implementation work has also been active, with improved + support for the labeling of IPC objects, including better + integration into the network stack. Both development trees have + been updated to work with recent KSE-related developments, as + well as exist more happily in a fine-grained SMP kernel. Initial + audit-related work appears in a seperate entry.

+ +

Development of TrustedBSD source code was moved to the FreeBSD + Perforce repository, permitting better source code management. As + such, the TrustedBSD development trees will now be available via + cvsup.

+ + + + + SMPng Status Report + + + + + John + + Baldwin + + + jhb@FreeBSD.org + + + + smp@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

October ended up being a bit busier than November for + SMPng. During October, Peter Wemm finally finished the + ambitious task of unwinding all the macros in NFS and + splitting it up into two halves: client and server. Andrew + Reiter also submitted some code to add locks to taskqueues, + and the folks working on the TTY subsystem designed the + locking strategy they will be using. Per-thread ucred + references were also added for user traps and syscalls. Once + the necessary locking on the process ucred references is + committed, this will allow kernel code to access the + credentials of the current thread without needing locks while + also ensuring that a thread has constant credentials for the + lifetime of a syscall. November only saw a few small bug fixes + unfortunately, but December is already shaping up to be a very + active month, so next month's report should be a bit more + interesting.

+ +

In non-coding news, the website for the SMPng project has + moved from its old location to the new location above. Also, + I have completed a paper I am presenting for BSDCon regarding + the SMPng project. The paper will be available in the + conference proceedings and will be available online after the + conference as well.

+ + + + diff --git a/en/news/status/report-november-2001.xml b/en/news/status/report-november-2001.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..903eefe732 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/status/report-november-2001.xml @@ -0,0 +1,1026 @@ + + + + + November + + 2001 + + +
+ Introduction + +

This months report covers activity during the second half of + October, and the month of November. During these months, + substantial work was performed to improve system performance and + stability, in particular addressing concerns regarding regressions + in network performance for the TCP protocol, and via the + introduction of polled network device driver support. Work + continues on long-term architectural projects for 5.0, including + KSEs, NEWCARD, and TrustedBSD, as well as the cleaning up of + long-standing problems in FreeBSD, such as PAM integration. + Administrative changes are also documented, including work to + redefine and formalize the release engineering process, and the + approval of a new portmgr group which will administer the ports + collection.

+ +

FreeBSD users and developers are strongly encouraged to attend + the USENIX BSD Conference in February of next year; it is expected + that this will be a useful forum both for learning about FreeBSD + and on-going work, as well as providing an opportunity for + developers to work more closely and act as a vehicle for discussion + and round-the-clock hacking. More information is available at the + USENIX web site.

+ +

Robert Watson

+
+ + + TCP Performance Improvements + + + + + Matthew + + Dillon + + + dillon@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + +

A number of serious TCP bugs effecting throughput snuck into + the system over the last few releases and have finally been + fixed. TCP performance should be greatly improved for a number of + cases, including TCP/NFS.

+ + + + + Intel Gigabit Driver: wx desupported + + + + + Matthew + + Jacob + + + mjacob@feral.com + + + + + + + +

The wx driver is desupported and removed from -current. No + further support for wx in -stable is planned. Newer and better + drivers are now in the tree.

+ + + + + Fibre Channel Support + + + + + Matthew + + Jacob + + + mjacob@feral.com + + + + + Qlogic ISP Host Adapter + Software + + + +

Ongoing bug fixes. Work is underway, to be integrated shortly, + that makes the cross platform endian support easier and will + prepare the FreeBSD version for eventual sparc64 and PowerPC + usage.

+ + + + + TrustedBSD Audit + + + + + John + + Doe + + + trustedbsd-audit@trustedbsd.org + + + + + + TrustedBSD Project + Homepage + + + +

Currently, we are exploring a variety of strategies to learn + about the implementation and performance issues in order to have + a solid design. One of our main goals will be to use a + standardized interface to the system, whether it be POSIX.1e, or + another of the other standards, because as they say "Standards + are great because you have so many to choose from." Hopefully + within the next month or so, we will populate the perforce + TrustedBSD tree with an agreed upon framework that is ready for + serious final work.

+ + + + + Pluggable Authentication Modules + + + + + Mark + + Murray + + + markm@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Dag-Erling + + Smørgrav + + + des@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

On the code side, a number of libpam bugs have been fixed; a + new PAM module, + pam_self(8) + + , has been written; and preparations have been made for + transitioning from + /etc/pam.conf + + to + /etc/pam.d + + .

+ +

On the documentation side, new manual pages have been written + for + pam_ssh(8) + + , + pam_get_item(3) + + and + pam_set_item(3) + + , and work has started on a longer article about PAM which is + expected to be finished by the end of the year.

+ +

A lot of work still remains to be done to integrate PAM more + tightly with the FreeBSD base system—particularly the + passwd(1) + + , + chpass(1) + + etc. utilities—and ports collection.

+ + + + + Status Report: mb_alloc (-CURRENT mbuf allocator) + + + + + Bosko + + Milekic + + + bmilekic@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Code + Dump and Preliminary Results + + + +

Presently re-style(9)ing mbuf code with the help of Bruce + (bde). The next larger step is approaching: to better + performance, as initially planned, not have reference counters + for clusters allocated separately via malloc(9). Rather, use some + of the [unused] space at the end of each cluster as a counter; + since this space is totally unused and since ref. counter + <--> mbuf cluster is a one-to-one relationship, this is + most convenient.

+ + + + + FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering + + + + + Murray + + Stokely + + + murray@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD + Release Engineering. + + FreeBSD + 4.5 Release Process / Schedule. + + + +

Release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5 have begun. An + overview of the entire process has been added to the FreeBSD web + site, along with a specific schedule for 4.5. The code freeze is + scheduled to start on December 20. The team responsible for + responding to MFC requests sent to re@FreeBSD.org for this + release is: Murray Stokely, Robert Watson, and John Baldwin. Some + of our many goals for this release include closing more + installation-related problem reports, being more conservative + with our approval of changes during the code freeze, and + continuing to document the entire process. For suggestions or + questions about FreeBSD 4.5 release activities, please subscribe + to the public freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org mailing list.

+ + + + + Web site conversion to XML + + + + + Nik + + Clayton + + + nik@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Work is (slowly) progressing on converting the web site to use + pages marked up in a simple XML schema, and then generating HTML + and other output formats using XSLT style sheets. The work so far + can be tested by doing "cvs checkout -r XML_XSL_XP www" and then + "cd www/en; make index.html". Take a look at index.page in the + same directory to see the source XML. The CVS logs for index.page + contain detailed instructions explaining how index.page was + generated from its earlier form.

+ + + + + FreeBSD in Bulgarian + + + + + Peter + + Pentchev + + + roam@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + + +

The FreeBSD in Bulgarian project aims to bring a more + comfortable working environment to Bulgarian users of the FreeBSD + OS. This includes, but is not limited to, font, keymap and locale + support, translation of the FreeBSD documentation into Bulgarian, + local user groups and various forms of on-line help channels and + discussion forums to help Bulgarians adopt and use FreeBSD.

+ +

Bulgarian locale support has been committed to FreeBSD + 5.0-CURRENT (and later merged into 4.x-STABLE on December 10th). + A local CVS repository for the translation of the FreeBSD + documentation into Bulgarian has been created.

+ + + + + New mount(2) API + + + + + Poul-Henning + + Kamp + + + phk@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Maxime + + Henrion + + + mux@qualys.com + + + + + + + + +

There is now some code ready for the new mount API, which has + to be reviewed and tested. If it is adopted, we will probably + start converting all the filesystems, as well as other code in + the kernel, to make them use it. If you want to play with it, the + patch is available at the above URL.

+ + + + + Network interface cloning and modularity + + + + + Brooks + + Davis + + + brooks@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Support for VLAN cloning has been merged from current and will + ship with 4.5-RELEASE. Additionaly, new rc.conf support for + cloning interfaces at boot has been MFD'd. Work is ongoing to MFC + stf and faith cloning as well as adding cloning for ppp devices + and enhancing VLAN modularity.

+ + + + + Device Polling + + + + + Luigi + + Rizzo + + + luigi@iet.unipi.it + + + + + Web page + with code and detailed description. + + + +

This work uses a mixed interrupt-polling architecture to + handle network device drivers, giving the system substantial + improvements in terms of stability and robustness to overloads, + as well as the ability to control the sharing of CPU between + network-related kernel processing and other user/kernel tasks. + Last not least, you might even see a moderate (up to 20-30%, + machine dependent) performance improvement.

+ + + + + RELNOTESng + + + + + Bruce + + Mah + + + bmah@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + + +

I've been working on making the Hardware Notes less + i386-centric. This will be especially important for -CURRENT as + the ia64 and sparc ports reach maturity; most of this work should + be completed in time to be MFC-ed for FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. I + encourage any interested parties to review the release + documentation and send me comments or patches.

+ + + + + FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Port + + + + + Matthew + + N. + + Dodd + + + mdodd@FreeBSD.org + + + + + News and + Status. + + FTP + directory. + + + +

The port of the driver is around 90% feature complete. AGP + support and "Registry" support via sysctl need to be + finished/implemented. The NVIDIA guys are working on a build of + the X11 libs and extensions for FreeBSD; once this is done + hardware accelerated direct rendering should work. The previous + version this driver is no longer available. I'm planning on + making a snapshot of my code once I chase out a few more + bugs.

+ +

Please note that development is taking place under -CURRENT + right now; a port to -STABLE will be available at some later + time.

+ + + + + jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project + + + + + Makoto + + Matsushita + + + matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org + + + + + Project + Webpage + + + Anonymous FTP + + + +

jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project is yet another + snapshots server that provides latest 4-stable and 5-current + distribution. You also find installable ISO image, live + filesystem, HTMLed source code with search engine, and more; + please check project webpage for more details.

+ + + + + UDF Filesystem + + + + + Scott + + Long + + + scottl@FreeBSD.org + + + + + UDF + Filesystem. + + + +

Modest gains have been made on the UDF filesystem since the + last report. Reading of files from DVD-ROM now works (and is + fast, according to some reports), and there is preliminary + support for reading from CD-RW media. The CD-RW support has only + been tested against CD's created with Adaptec/ Roxio DirectCD, + and much, much more testing is needed. Once this support is + solid, I plan to check it into the tree and start work on making + the filesystem writable.

+ + + + + NEWCARD/OLDCARD Status report + + + + + Warner + + Losh + + + imp@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Not much to report. A number of minor bugs in OLDCARD have + been corrected. A larger number of machines now work. Additional + work on ToPIC support has been committed, but continued lack of a + suitable ToPIC machine has left the author unable to do much + work. A few stubborn machines still need to be supported (the + author has an example of one such machine, so there is hope for + it being fixed. Some pci related issues remain for both OLDCARD + and NEWCARD.

+ +

NEWCARD work is ramping up, while OLDCARD work is ramping + down. A number of things remain to be done for NEWCARD, including + suspend/ resume support, generic device arrival/removal daemon + and hopefully automatic loading of drivers. A number of current + pccard drivers still need to be converted to NEWBUS. Several + Chipset issues remain, as does the merging of isa pccard bridge + code with the pccbb code.

+ + + + + GEOM - generalized block storage manipulation + + + + + Poul-Henning + + Kamp + + + phk@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Old concept paper + here. + + + +

This project is now finally underway, thanks to DARPA and NAI + getting a sponsorship lined up. The infrastructure code and data + structures are currently taking form inside a userland simulation + harness.

+ + + + + jpman project + + + + + Kazuo + + Horikawa + + + horikawa@FreeBSD.org + + + + + User and developer + information (in Japanese). + + + +

Targeting 4.5-RELEASE, we continued to revising + doc/ja_JP.eucJP/man/man[1256789] to catch up with RELENG_4. + Section 3 updating has 45% finished.

+ + + + + LOMAC Status Report + + + + + Brian + + Feldman + + + green@FreeBSD.org + + + + + NAI Labs' LOMAC + page + + + +

A FreeBSD -CURRENT snapshot with LOMAC is currently being + prepared, with aid of Perforce on the "green_lomac" branch. Very + soon there should be a working demonstration installation CD of + FreeBSD with LOMAC, including the ability to enable LOMAC in + rc.conf with sysinstall, being a legitimate "out-of-the-box" + FreeBSD experience. Actual release build is pending debugging + issues with program start-up (especially xdm).

+ + + + + ATA Project Status Report + + + + + Søren Schmidt + + + sos@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Work is underways to support failing mirror disks better and + handle hotswapping in a new replacement disk and have it rebuild + automagically.

+ +

Support for the Promise TX4 is now working in my lab, seems + they did the PCI-PCI bridging in the not so obvious way.

+ +

Plans are in the works to backport the -current ATA driver to + -stable with hotswap and the works. Now that -current is delayed + I'm working on ways to give me time to get this done, since I've + had lots of requests lately and we really can't let down our + customers :).

+ +

SMART support is being worked on, but no timelines yet.

+ +

Although not strictly ATA, Promise has equipped me with a + couple SuperTrak sx6000 RAID controllers, they take 6 ATA disks + and does RAID0-5 in hardware. I have done a driver (its an I2O + device) for both -current and -stable and it works butifully with + hotswap the works. It will enter the tree when it is more mature, + and I have an agreement with Promise on how we handle userland + control util etc. BTW it seems it can also be used as a normal 6 + channel PCI ATA controller, a bit on the expensive side + maybe...

+ + + + + Revised {mode,log}page support for camcontrol + + + + + Kelly + + Yancey + + + kbyanc@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Extending camcontrol's page definition file format to include + both modepage and logpage definitions; adding support to + camcontrol to query and reset log page parameters. Consideration + is being made to possibly include support for diagnostic and + vital product data pages, but that is outside the current project + scope. New page definition file format includes capability to + conditionally include page definitions based on SCSI INQUIRY + results allowing vendor-specific pages to be described also. + Approximately 80% complete.

+ + + + + FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project + + + + + Mike + + Barcroft + + + mike@FreeBSD.org + + + + + FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List + + + standards@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

Work on the FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project is + progressing nicely. Since the last status report, two new headers + have been added [<stdint.h> and <inttypes.h>], + several new functions implemented [atoll(3), imaxabs(3), + imaxdiv(3), llabs(3), lldiv(3), strerror_r(3), strtoimax(3), and + strtoumax(3)], and changes to assert(3) and printf(3) were made + to support C99. More printf(3) changes are in the works to + support the remaining C99 and POSIX requirements. Additionally, + research was done into our POSIX Utility conformance and a list + of tasks was derived from that research.

+ +

Several other interesting events occurred during November and + the beginning of December. The project mailing list was moved to + the FreeBSD.org domain, and is now available at + standards@FreeBSD.org. On December 6, 2001, the IEEE Standards + Board approved the Austin Group Specification as IEEE Std + 1003.1-2001, thus making the work we're doing ever more + important.

+ + + + + Improving FreeBSD startup scripts + + + + + Doug Barton + + Commiter + + + DougB@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Gordon Tetlow + + Contributor + + + gordont@gnf.org + + + + + Improving + FreeBSD startup scripts + + + Luke Mewburn's papers + + NetBSD + Initialization and Services Control + + + <-- from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/ --> +

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.

+ + <-- from Gordon Tetlow's ranting --> +

Due to personal commitments by the folks working on this project + we have been unable to spend much time porting the rc.d + infrastructure into the FreeBSD boot framework.

+ +

Currently, the system will boot (with a little fudging) just + before network utilization. There are patches floating around for + this (see the -arch list from September).

+ + + + + KSEs + + + + + Julian + + Elischer + + + julian@FreeBSD.org + + + + + My web-page with + links + + Jason Evans' KSE + page. + + + + +

I have been working behind the scenes on design rather than + programming for this last month. I have been working however in + the p4 tree to make the system run with the thread structure NOT + a part of the proc structure (a prerequisite fo threading)

+ + + + + Ports Manager Team (portmgr) + + + + + Will + + Andrews + + + will@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Ports build cluster + + + +

After a discussion with the Core Team about our status + regarding the ports collection, we heard from them that they'd + decided to recognize us as the final authority for approving + ports committers. We've spent the last few weeks working on our + ports build cluster (see the link) and trying to find ways to + improve it for the ports development community. We've also + handled a few minor issues in the ports collection.

+ + + + + TrustedBSD Project + + + + + Robert + + Watson + + + rwatson@FreeBSD.org + + + + + TrustedBSD Home Page + + + +

The TrustedBSD Project continued focussing development efforts + on fine-grained Capabilities and Mandatory Access Control this + month. Kernel support for capabilities is essentially complete, + and efforts are underway to adapt userland applications to use + Capabilities. The login process has been updated to allow users + to run with additional privilege based on /etc/capabilities. The + MAC implementation work has also been active, with improved + support for the labeling of IPC objects, including better + integration into the network stack. Both development trees have + been updated to work with recent KSE-related developments, as + well as exist more happily in a fine-grained SMP kernel. Initial + audit-related work appears in a seperate entry.

+ +

Development of TrustedBSD source code was moved to the FreeBSD + Perforce repository, permitting better source code management. As + such, the TrustedBSD development trees will now be available via + cvsup.

+ + + + + SMPng Status Report + + + + + John + + Baldwin + + + jhb@FreeBSD.org + + + + smp@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

October ended up being a bit busier than November for + SMPng. During October, Peter Wemm finally finished the + ambitious task of unwinding all the macros in NFS and + splitting it up into two halves: client and server. Andrew + Reiter also submitted some code to add locks to taskqueues, + and the folks working on the TTY subsystem designed the + locking strategy they will be using. Per-thread ucred + references were also added for user traps and syscalls. Once + the necessary locking on the process ucred references is + committed, this will allow kernel code to access the + credentials of the current thread without needing locks while + also ensuring that a thread has constant credentials for the + lifetime of a syscall. November only saw a few small bug fixes + unfortunately, but December is already shaping up to be a very + active month, so next month's report should be a bit more + interesting.

+ +

In non-coding news, the website for the SMPng project has + moved from its old location to the new location above. Also, + I have completed a paper I am presenting for BSDCon regarding + the SMPng project. The paper will be available in the + conference proceedings and will be available online after the + conference as well.

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