From d23294693b7f366221e0957e4369e59d08ef78bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Watson Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:13:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Assign DWARF2 item Kostik as a contact, remove msdosfs idea as it's in large part done thanks to Kostik. Submitted by: kib --- en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml | 30 +++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml b/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml index 6a359ab248..ce3962fd67 100644 --- a/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml +++ b/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ideas//EN" - $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.133 2010/03/08 21:04:58 rwatson Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.134 2010/03/08 21:08:43 rwatson Exp $ @@ -122,32 +122,6 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.

File System - - FAT (msdosfs) infrastructure work - - -

Technical Contact: Robert Watson

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The FreeBSD FAT implementation, msdosfs, offers scope for a number of - projects:

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  • General cleanup.
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  • Introduce appropriate locking to make the file system operate without - the Giant lock (MPSAFE).
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It is unclear to what extent the last of these items, arguably the most - useful, will require modifying surrounding infrastructure such as BIO, - GEOM, and VM.

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Requirements:

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  • Strong C programming skills.
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  • Familiarity with concurrent programming techniques.
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  • Familiarity with FAT file system layout.
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  • Familiarity with virtual file system and virtual memory.
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- - - Improve the performance of dump/restore @@ -528,6 +502,8 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.

DWARF2 call frame information +

Technical contact: Konstantin Belousov

A debug kernel is not able to show stack traces with cross exceptions anymore. This is because we do not emit any dwarf2 call frame information for any assembler code, since gdb switched to the dwarf2 format. A volunteer