diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml index 4c2ae25198..6a7bea873c 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml @@ -1977,19 +1977,30 @@ capable of self-hosting on FreeBSD/amd64 and is capable of linking many test applications.

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Highlights of upstream development over the quarter include: +

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lld currently lacks comprehensive linker script expression evaluation support, and therefore cannot yet be used to link the FreeBSD kernel. It also lacks versioned symbol support, and does not implement some options used in the FreeBSD boot loader components.

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I've been running experimental world builds of FreeBSD/amd64 +

Ed has been running experimental world builds of FreeBSD/amd64 with lld installed in place of ld.bfd as the linker. With workarounds for the current gaps in functionality (using the WITHOUT_SYMVER option to disable symbol versioning use, and linking the loader components with GNU ld), lld is now able to - link a working FreeBSD system.

+ link a working FreeBSD userland.

The &os; Foundation @@ -2005,6 +2016,11 @@ improvements in the upstream lld project.

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Add or improve support for remaining FreeBSD + architectures.

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Import a newer lld snapshot into the vendor area, add build infrastructure and connect it to the world build, installed