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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
Report//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
<!-- $FreeBSD: $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2008-10-2008-12.xml,v 1.1 2009/01/29 06:50:26 brd Exp $ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>October-December</month>
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<title>Introduction</title>
<p>This quarter included some very exciting work including the
the release of FreeBSD 6.4 and the much anticipated release of
FreeBSD 7.1. We also launched our own official FreeBSD Forums.
release of FreeBSD 6.4 and the much anticipated release of
FreeBSD 7.1. We also launched our own official <a
href="http://forums.FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD Forums</a>.
The first Bugathon of the year will be held this weekend, see
below for more information and how to participate.</p>
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<body>
<p>We will be having our next Bugathon on 2009-01-30 to 2009-02-01
(see separate entry).</p>
(see <a href="#FreeBSD-Bugathons">this</a> entry).</p>
<p>At the recent DevSummit in Strasbourg, the participants spent
half a day working through the current "recommended PRs" list. The
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arrive with 'tags' that correspond to manpages. As a result, we now
have created some prototype reports that allow browsing the
database
<url
<a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html">
by manpage</url>
.</p>
by manpage</a>.</p>
<p>In addition, another new report, oriented towards PR submitters,
summarizes the
<url
<a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html">
most commonly reported issues</url>
. Many of these issues persist because they are difficult to fix.
Before filing a PR, you may want to check through this list.</p>
most commonly reported issues</a>. Many of these issues persist
because they are difficult to fix. Before filing a PR, you may
want to check through this list.</p>
<p>As well, we now have a more active set of volunteers who are
willing to help users with reported problems of the form "xyz does
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reports, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<url
<li><a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recentprs_day.html">
new PRs in the past day</url>
(
<url
New PRs in the past day</a>, <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recentprs_week.html">
week</url>
,
<url
week</a>, <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/recentprs_month.html">
month</url>
month</a>.</li>
)</li>
<li><a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_tag_regression.html">
PRs with regressions</a>.</li>
<li>
<url
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_tag_regression.html">
PRs with regressions</url>
</li>
<li>a way for developers to
<url
<li>A way for developers to <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~linimon/annotated_prs.sample.html">
create their own customized reports</url>
</li>
create their own customized reports</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The
<url
<p>The <a
href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BugBusting/Commonly_reported_issues">
commonly reported issues</url>
summary page, previously maintained by Jeremy Chadwick, has been
moved to a new location.</p>
commonly reported issues</a> summary page, previously maintained
by Jeremy Chadwick, has been moved to a new location.</p>
<p>The overall PR count jumped to over 5600 during the 6.4/7.1
release cycle, but has come down a bit.</p>
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significant amount of work during 2008. The first ten chapters of
the Handbook are now completely translated and kept in sync with
the English text. Work is also progressing nicely in the second
part of the chapter, with many new translated chapters. At this
part of The Handbook, with many new translated chapters. At this
pace, we hope to have a complete Greek Handbook by 8.0-RELEASE.</p>
<p>More volunteers are always welcome of course, as there is still
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<p>Because of a lack of time, Mono stalled at version 1.2.5 for
more than one year in the FreeBSD ports tree. However, things have
moved and the BSD# Team is proud to announce that the Mono ports is
moved and the BSD# Team is proud to announce that the Mono ports are
about to be updated to 2.0.1. Ports depending on Mono will also be
updated to the latest available version at the same occasion.</p>
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<help>
<task>Test and send feedback.</task>
<task>Port Mono applications to FreeBSD</task>
<task>Port Mono applications to FreeBSD.</task>
<task>Build a debug live-image of FreeBSD so that Mono hackers
without a FreeBSD box can help us fixing bugs more
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<p>KDE has been updated to 4.1.4.</p>
<p>X.Org version 7.4</p>
<p>X.Org has been updated to 7.4.</p>
<p>The following large changes are in the pipeline:
<ul>
</ul>
<p>The following large changes are in the pipeline:</p>
<ul>
<li>Introduction of Perl 5.10</li>
<li>Introduction of Perl 5.10.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>We are currently building packages for amd64-6, amd64-7,
amd64-8, i386-6, i386-7, i386-8, sparc64-6, and sparc64-7. Several
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</links>
<body>
<p>
<p>Since last status report both 7.1-RELEASE (5 January 2009) and
6.4-RELEASE (28 November 2008) have been released. Starting with
the 6.4-RELEASE a new DVD ISO image called "dvd1" is provided for
amd64/i386. This image contains everything that is on the CDROM
discs. So "dvd1" can be used to do a full installation that
<p>Since the last status report both 7.1-RELEASE (5 January 2009)
and 6.4-RELEASE (28 November 2008) have been released. Starting
with 6.4-RELEASE, a new DVD ISO image called "dvd1" is provided
for amd64/i386. This image contains everything that is on the
CDROM discs. So "dvd1" can be used to do a full installation that
includes a basic set of packages, it has all of the documentation
for all supported languages, and it can be used for booting into
a "live CD-based filesystem" and system rescue mode. 6.4-RELEASE
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<p>Some work has also been done on the documentation build, we
want to provide a more flexible way to install docs (Handbook,
FAQ, etc.) and detach the build from the release build to use
FAQ, etc.) and detach the release build to use
instead ports (packages). This should make release building
easier on slow architectures. Hopefully this switch will be done
for 7.2-RELEASE or 8.0-RELEASE.</p>
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<p>Regarding the time line, we still plan to release 8.0-RELEASE
in mid-June 2009. A time for the 7.2-RELEASE has not been set
yet.</p>
</p>
</body>
<help>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
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</contact>
<body>
<p>
<p>FreeBSD mmc(4)/mmcsd(4) stack was improved to support all
MMC/SD card types existing now. Was added support for SD High
MMC/SD card types existing now. Support was added for SD High
Capacity (SDHC) cards and MultiMediaCards (MMC) memory cards of
normal (up to 2GB) and high capacity. Added support for 4/8bits
wide buses, High Speed timings and multi-block transfers allows
to reach speeds up to 25MB/s (SD) and 52MB/s (MMC) depending on
used card and controller.</p>
normal (up to 2GB) and high capacity. Support was also added
for 4/8bits wide buses, High Speed timings and multi-block
transfers allows to reach speeds up to 25MB/s (SD) and 52MB/s
(MMC) depending on which card and controller was used.</p>
<p>Added SD Host Controller driver sdhci(4) that implements
<p>Added SD Host Controller driver, sdhci(4), that implements
support for SD specification compatible PCI SD/MMC card readers
to be used with mmc(4)/mmcsd(4) stack. Driver supports PIO and
DMA transfers, 1/4bits buses, high speed timings, card
insert/remove detection and write protection.</p>
</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Many of existing SD Host Controllers have undocumented
registers beyond SD specification. Some of them unable to detect
card without some additional initialization implemented.</task>
<task>Many of the existing SD Host Controllers have undocumented
registers beyond SD specification. Some of them are unable to
detect the card without some additional initialization
implemented.</task>
</help>
</project>
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</contact>
<body>
<p>
<p>snd_hda(4) audio driver was significantly improved to provide
better functionality according to High Definition Audio (HDA) and
Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) specifications.</p>
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means, that depending on specific system needs, single audio
codec may provide several independent functions. For example,
main multichannel output, headset input/output and digital
SPDIF/HDMI audio input/output. Each of these functions provided
as separate pcm device and can be used independently.</p>
SPDIF/HDMI audio input/output. Each of these functions are
provided as separate pcm devices and can be used independently.</p>
<p>Comparing to ALSA and OSS HDA drivers which are heavily tuned
to support each specific codec in every specific system, this
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<p>Also new driver implements SPDIF/HDMI digital audio,
suspend/resume and initial parts of multichannel support.</p>
</p>
</body>
<help>
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above like for example Fire V240 should also just work with all
essential on-board devices, i.e. serial console, ATA/SCSI
controller and NIC, being supported. So far the intention is to MFC
this code in time for FreeBSD 7.2</p>
this code in time for FreeBSD 7.2.</p>
</body>
<help>