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- Move includes.nav*.sgml to share/sgml/navibar.ent and
<lang>/share/sgml/nabibar.l10n.ent.
- Move includes.sgml and includes.xsl to
share/sgml/common.ent, share/sgml/header.ent, <lang>/share/sgml/l10n.ent,
and <lang>?share/sgml/header.l10n.ent.
- Move most of XSLT libraries to share/sgml/*.xsl and
<lang>/share/sgml/*.xsl.
- Move news.xml and other *.xml files for the similar purpose
to share/sgml/*.xml and <lang>/share/sgml/*.xml.
- Switch to use a custom DTD for HTML document. Now we use
"-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension", which is
HTML 4.01 + some entities previously pulled via
"<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;" line.
The location of entity file will be resolved by using catalog file.
- Add DOCTYPE declearation to XML documents. This makes the followings
possible:
* Use of &foo; entities for SGML in an XML file instead of defining
{$foo} as the same content.
* &symbolic; entities for Latin characters.
- Duplicated information between SGML and XML, or English and
translated doc, has been removed as much as possible.
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<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XSLT 1.0 DTD//EN"
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"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/xslt10-freebsd.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY base "../..">
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<!ENTITY email "freebsd-ia64">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/ia64 Project">
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<!ENTITY % navinclude.developers "INCLUDE">
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]>
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<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
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<xsl:import href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/lang/share/sgml/libcommon.xsl"/>
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<xsl:variable name="date" select="'$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/ia64/todo.xsl,v 1.8 2006/05/09 23:36:46 marcel Exp $'"/>
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<xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
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encoding="iso-8859-1" method="html"/>
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<xsl:template match="/">
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<html>
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&header1;
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<body>
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<div id="CONTAINERWRAP">
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<div id="CONTAINER">
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&header2;
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<div id="CONTENT">
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<div id="SIDEWRAP">
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&nav;
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</div> <!-- SIDEWRAP -->
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<div id="CONTENTWRAP">
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&header3;
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<img align="right" alt="Montecito die" src="montecito-die.png"/>
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<p>Search the FreeBSD/ia64 PR database:</p>
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<form action="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi"
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method="get">
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<input type="hidden" name="category" value="ia64"/>
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<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="none"/>
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<input type="text" name="text"/>
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<input type="submit" value="Go"/>
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</form>
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<h3>
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What needs to be done
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</h3>
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<p>
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This page tries to be the starting point for people trying to find
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anything that can be done. The order of the items on this page are
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not strictly an indication of priority, but it is a good indication.
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There are in all likelyhood tasks that are not mentioned here, but
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that should be done nonetheless. A typical example is the maintenance
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of the ia64 web pages... unfortunately.
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</p>
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<h4>
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Becoming a tier 1 platform
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</h4>
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<p>
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With two releases as a tier 2 platform, it is time to work towards
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becoming a tier 1 platform. This involves tasks as varied as:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Improve the installation process to take into account that
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there is already a GPT with an EFI partition, including other
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operating systems. The ability to add a FreeBSD entry to the
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EFI boot menu is also a nice thing.
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</li>
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<li>
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Port the GNU debugger. It is sorely missed on a development
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machine and required on tier 1 platforms.
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</li>
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<li>
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Port the X server (ports/x11/XFree86-4-Server). Not really
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required for tier 1 status, but one cannot truely do without
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if one wants to use ia64 as a desktop machine.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>
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Ports and packages
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</h4>
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<p>
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A very important task for the success of FreeBSD on ia64 is making
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sure that users have something to run besides ls(1). Our huge ports
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collection has been targeting ia32 for the most part, so it is not
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surprising that there are a lot of ports that do not build or do not
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work on ia64. Look
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<a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org/errorlogs/ia64-6-latest/">
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here
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</a>
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for the most up-to-date list of ports that fail to build for some
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reason or another. Note that if there are ports depending on one or
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more ports that fail, those are not built and are not counted. A good
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way to help out here is to work on those ports that have a lot of
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ports depending on it (see the "Aff." column in the table).
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</p>
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<h4>
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Sharpening the saw
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</h4>
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<p>
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There are plenty functions (especially assembly routines) that
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have been written to provide the missing functionality without any
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consideration for speed and/or robustness. Reviewing those functions
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and replacing them if necessary is a good task that can be done
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concurrently and independently from other activity and does not
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necessarily require huge amounts of knowledge and/or experience.
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</p>
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<h4>
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Core development
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</h4>
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<p>
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On top of the high-level things that do not work or do not exist,
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there is also some rather involved rewriting to be done at the
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foundation and can potentionally affect all other platforms as well.
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This includes:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Improve UP and SMP stability by revamping the PMAP module.
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The low-level handling of VM translations needs to be improved.
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This involves both correctness as well as performance.
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</li>
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<li>
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Basic device drivers such as sio(4) and syscons(4) do not
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work on ia64 machines that do not have support for legacy
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devices. This is a rather big issue, because it affects all
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platforms and may involve rewriting (big) parts of certain
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subsystems. Clearly a task that needs wholesale support and
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coordination.
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</li>
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<li>
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Better handling of sparse (physical) memory configurations
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by not creating VM tables that span the whole address space,
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but rather cover the memory "chunks" that are present. We are
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currently forced to ignore memory because of this.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div> <!-- CONTENTWRAP -->
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<br class="clearboth" />
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</div> <!-- CONTENT -->
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<div id="FOOTER">
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©right;<br />
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&date;
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</div> <!-- FOOTER -->
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</div> <!-- CONTAINER -->
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</div> <!-- CONTAINERWRAP -->
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</body>
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</html>
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</xsl:template>
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</xsl:stylesheet>
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