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Open Issues

This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD 5.1. If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail re@FreeBSD.org.

Must Resolve Issues for 5.1-RELEASE

IssueStatusResponsibleDescription
Race conditions in truss Errata candidate &a.robert; Truss appears to contain a race condition during the start-up of debugging, which can result in truss failing to attach to the process before it exits. The symptom is that truss reports that it cannot open the procfs node supporting the process being debugged. A bug also appears to exist where in truss will hang if execve() returns ENOENT. A further race appears to exist in which truss will return "PIOCWAIT: Input/output error" occasionally on startup. The fix for this sufficiently changes process execution handling that we will defer the fix to post-5.0 and consider this errata.
iir driver fails to probe disks -- -- During the install, the iir controller appears to correctly probe, but finds no disk devices. The card in question is an Intel srcu32 RAID controller with 32Mb RAM, Firmware revision 2.33.01. Direct access to real iir hardware for SCSI developers would be very helpful in resolving this problem.
if_wi problems on Lucent hardware In Progress &a.imp;, &a.sam; The recently upgraded if_wi driver is more tuned to Prism hardware than to Lucent hardware, resulting in system lockups and poor performance when using Lucent hardware.
lazy context switching for i386 In Progress &a.peter; Lazy Context Switching allows for faster context switches and should mitigate the some of the latency introduced with interrupt threads and GEOM kernel threads.
Fresh ACPI-CA import -- -- The last ACPI-CA import happened in Oct 2002. Vendor releases since then address various bugs that have also plagued FreeBSD 5.0 users.
PAE support for i386 In Progress &a.jake; PAE support allows the use of up to 64GB of RAM on Pentium Pro and above systems. Virtual addresses are still contrained to 32-bits.

Desired Features for 5.1-RELEASE

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IssueStatusResponsibleDescription
NSSwitch support In progress &a.nectar; Support for pluggable directory services using NSS, including adaptations of current directory services (local databases, NIS), and support for new services (LDAP, Active Directory, etc). This change has now been tested, and requires broader testing.
a.out toolchain port -- -- A.out support in the base system was reduced; the removed build chain components should be made into a port.
UFS2 as installation, newfs defaultIn progress&a.rwatson;Change the installation and newfs(8) default format to UFS2. + In 5.0-RELEASE, UFS2 was optional to improve backward compatibility + and ease experimentation. In 5.1-RELEASE, UFS2 will be the + default due to higher performance, larger maximum capacity, and + access to features such as extended attributes. All tools will + continue to support UFS1.

Documentation items that must be resolved for 5.1

IssueStatusResponsibleDescription
No docs for FAST IPSEC -- -- The new "fast ipsec" implementation has insufficient documentation (man pages, release notes), and this would be highly desirable to have before 5.0-RELEASE.
Documentation rottage: S/Key -- -- We now use OPIE instead of S/Key. The handbook doesn't know that yet.
Documentation wanted: gdbe -- &a.chris; 5.0 includes GDBE, supporting encryption of swap and storage. It would be nice if that was documented in the handbook.

Areas requiring immediate testing due to 5.0 changes

IssueStatusResponsibleDescription
No console (term) if smbus is enable in the kernel -- -- There are reports that kernels build with smbus, viapm, and smb devices may not properly probe and support the system console following boot.
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