Since the last Status Reports there has been interesting progress + in FreeBSD Development. FreeBSD 7.2 was released just a few days ago. + Some of the highlights include: Support for superpages in the FreeBSD + Virtual Memory subsystem. The FreeBSD Kernel Virtual Address space + has been increased to 6GB on amd64. An updated jail(8) subsystem that + supports multi-IPv4/IPv6/noIP and much more. Lots of FreeBSD + Developers are in Ottawa, Canada attending The FreeBSD Developer + Summit that is before BSDCan. BSDCan officially starts tomorrow and + should cover lots of interesting topics, see the + BSDCan Website + + for more information.
+ +Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you + enjoy reading.
+We continue to classify PRs as they arrive, with 'tags' + corresponding to the kernel subsystem, or man page referencesfor + userland PRs. These tags, in turn, produce lists of PRs sorted both + + + by tag + + and + + by manpage + + . Mark Linimon (linimon@) has created + + special reports for the Release Engineering Team + + to help focus on regressions and other areas of interest relating + to the release of FreeBSD 7.2 in the coming weeks. This is a + refinement of the + + 'customised reports for developers' + + announced in the last status report. A full list of all the + + automatically generated reports + + is also available. Any recommendations for reports which do not + currently exist but which would be beneficial are welcomed. Mark + Linimon also continues attempting to define the general problem and + investigating possible new workflow models, and will be presenting + on the subject at BSDCan. The list of + + PRs recommended for committer evaluation + + by the bugbusting team continues to receive new additions. This + list contains PRs, mostly with patches, that the bugbusting team + feel are probably ready to be committed as-is, or are probably + trivially resolved in the hands of a committer with knowledge of + the particular subsystem. All committers are invited to take a look + at this list whenever they have a spare 5 minutes and wish to close + a PR. Since the last status report, the number of open bugs has + continued to hover around the 5600 mark, although has began to rise + with the 7.2 ports freeze. As always, more help is appreciated, and + committers and non-committers alike are invited to join us on + #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet and help close stale PRs or commit + patches from valid PRs.
+ + +The last 3-4 months we've been working together with the LLVM + developers to discuss any bugs and issues we are experiencing with + their Clang compiler frontend. The FreeBSD project is looking at + the possibility to replace GCC with Clang as a system compiler. It + can compile 99% of the FreeBSD world and can compile booting kernel + on i386/amd64 but it still contains bugs and its C++ support is + still immature.
+ +Ed is maintaining a patchset for the FreeBSD sources to replace + cc(1) by a Clang binary and bootstrap almost all sources with the + Clang compiler.
+ +The LLVM developers are very helpful fixing most of the bugs + we've reported (over 100). Unfortunately we are currently blocked + on some bug reports that prevent us from building libc, libm, + libcrypto and various CDDL libraries with Clang but the FreeBSD + kernel itself compiles and boots.
+ + +We are proud to announce that the FreeBSD Hungarian web pages + have been extended by the following items:
+ +We are still hoping that having the + FDP + Primer + + translated will encourage others to help our work. Feel free to + contribute, every submitted line of translation or feedback is + appreciated and is highly welcome. For more information on how to + contribute, please read the project's + + introduction + + (in Hungarian).
+ + ++
In Februay 2009 the German version of the FreeBSD Developer's + handbook went online. Additionally we managed to update large + areas of the FAQ thanks to the contributions of Benedict + Reuschling.
+ +The website (at least the areas we see as relevant for a + translation) is translated and updated constantly.
+ +More volunteers are always welcome of course, as there is + still plenty of work to be done.
+ + + +Currently, grep is finished and is only waiting for a portbuild + test. It is known to be more or less feature complete, while it is + much smaller than the GNU version.
+ +As for sort, there has been some progress with the complete + rewrite and it is lacking few options. Performance is to be + measured, as well.
+ + +The TrustedBSD Project has now released OpenBSM 1.1, the second + production release of the OpenBSM code base. OpenBSM 1.1 has been + merged to FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, and will be merged to 7-STABLE before + FreeBSD 7.3. Major changes since OpenBSM 1.0 include: +
FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT now has support for PowerPC CPUs operating + in the 64-bit bridge mode. This includes the PowerPC 970 (G5) as + well as the POWER3 and POWER4. Currently only Apple systems are + known to work.
+ + +The Release Engineering Team (with lots of help from lots of + other people) released FreeBSD 7.2 on May 4th, 2009. During this + period we have also begun reminding developers of the upcoming + FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle which is scheduled to begin in early June + 2009 with release targetted at early September 2009.
+ +The &os; Dutch Documentation Project is an ongoing project + to translate &os; Documentation into the Dutch language.
+ +The translation of the Handbook was completed last January. It
+ is kept up-to-date with the English version. Furthermore five
+ articles and the
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Some initial work has been done to translate the website, but + most likely more translators are needed to fully realize it.
+ + ++ Sysinfo + + a shell script which purpose is to automatically gather system + information and document hardware and software configuration of the + given host system. The goal is to provide a system operator with + descriptive information about an unknown FreeBSD installation.
+ +It consists of several modules (also shell scripts), thus is + easily extensible and provides an easy way to inspect overall + system configuration.
+ +It has been written as part of my Bachelor thesis and its + development is a work in progress. Therefore, I would appreciate if + you could provide me with some feedback as I will defend my thesis + soon. Your feedback is welcome at the + + forums + + , or alternatively you can send me a private email.
+ +The tool itself can now be installed using the Ports tree from + the + + sysutils/sysinfo + + port.
+ + +There is on-going work to allow "options MAC" to be included in + the GENERIC kernel for 8.0 This primarily consists of performance + work to reduce overhead when policies are used, and eliminate when + none are configured. Work to date includes: +
Like announced in the previous status report, support for + sun4u-machines based on UltraSPARC III and beyond has been MFC'ed + to stable/7 (the last missing piece was r190297) and thus will be + present in the upcoming 7.2-RELEASE and can be already tested with + 7.2-RC1. Additionally, as of r191076 machfb(4) has been fixed to + work with UltraSPARC III and beyond, that fix unfortunately did not + make it into 7.2-RC1 but will be in the final version. The X.Org + 7.4 and firefox ports as well as some other gecko-based ones like + seamonkey once again have been fixed to also work and package on + sparc64, including on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC IIIi based + machines equipped with cards driven by creator(4) or machfb(4). The + driver for the Sun Cassini/Cassini+ as well as National + Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn Gigabit NICs found on-board for + example in Fire V440 and as add-on cards is coming along nicely, + the last thing which needs to be implemented before it can hit + CURRENT is support for jumbo frames.
+ +A new DTrace provider, dtnfsclient, has been added to the + FreeBSD 8.x kernel, and will be merged to 7.x before 7.3. The + following probes are available: +
After the first mail from Alexander Eichner on the vbox-dev + mailinglist, we are started the work on a virtualbox port. 6 Days + was needed to get virtualbox to start with over 20 patches. We'd + like to say thanks to Alexander Eichner all vbox developers, Gustau + Perez and Ulf Lilleengen. If you like to play with the current port + you can checkout the port + + here + + . Please do not ping us about any problems we know about a lot and + still working to get all solved befor we officel call for + testing.
+ + +GPU device drivers are increasingly requiring more sophisticated + support for mapping objects into both userland and the kernel. For + example, memory used for textures often needs to be mapped + Write-Combining rather than Write-Back. I have recently created + three patches to provide several extensions.
+ +The first patch allows device drivers to use a different VM + object to back specific mmap() calls instead of always using the + device pager. The second patch introduces a new VM object type that + can map an arbitrary set of physical address ranges. This can be + used to let userland mmap PCI BARs, etc. The third patch allows + memory mappings to use different caching modes (e.g. + Write-Combining or Uncacheable).
+ +Together I believe these patches provide the remaining pieces + needed for an Nvidia amd64 driver. They will also be useful for + future Xorg DRM support as well. The current set of patches can be + safely merged back to 7.x as well.
+ +Currently I am waiting for review and feedback from several + folks. I am hopeful that these patches will be in HEAD soon, prior + to the 8.0 freeze.
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