diff --git a/en/news/status/Makefile b/en/news/status/Makefile index 77c1447d09..bb3bcad392 100644 --- a/en/news/status/Makefile +++ b/en/news/status/Makefile @@ -1,54 +1,55 @@ -# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.44 2008/11/11 03:52:54 brd Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.45 2009/01/29 06:50:26 brd Exp $ .if exists(../Makefile.conf) .include "../Makefile.conf" .endif .if exists(../Makefile.inc) .include "../Makefile.inc" .endif DOCS= status.sgml XMLDOCS= report-2001-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2001-07 XMLDOCS+= report-2001-08 XMLDOCS+= report-2001-09 XMLDOCS+= report-2001-11 XMLDOCS+= report-2001-12-2002-01 XMLDOCS+= report-2002-02-2002-04 XMLDOCS+= report-2002-05-2002-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2002-07-2002-08 XMLDOCS+= report-2002-09-2002-10 XMLDOCS+= report-2002-11-2002-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2003-01-2003-02 XMLDOCS+= report-2003-03-2003-09 XMLDOCS+= report-2003-10-2003-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2004-01-2004-02 XMLDOCS+= report-2004-03-2004-04 XMLDOCS+= report-2004-05-2004-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2004-07-2004-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2005-01-2005-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2005-03-2005-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2005-07-2005-10 XMLDOCS+= report-2005-10-2005-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2006-01-2006-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2006-04-2006-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2006-06-2006-10 XMLDOCS+= report-2006-10-2006-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2007-01-2007-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2007-04-2007-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2007-07-2007-10 XMLDOCS+= report-2007-10-2007-12 XMLDOCS+= report-2008-01-2008-03 XMLDOCS+= report-2008-04-2008-06 XMLDOCS+= report-2008-07-2008-09 XMLDOCS+= report-2008-10-2008-12 +XMLDOCS+= report-2009-01-2009-03 XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl # Install a sample entry. DATA= report-sample.xml INDEXLINK= status.html .include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.xml b/en/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a04e13f68e --- /dev/null +++ b/en/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.xml @@ -0,0 +1,974 @@ + + + + + + January-March + + 2009 + + +
+ Introduction + +

Since the last Status Reports there has been interesting progress + in FreeBSD Development. FreeBSD 7.2 was released just a few days ago. + Some of the highlights include: Support for superpages in the FreeBSD + Virtual Memory subsystem. The FreeBSD Kernel Virtual Address space + has been increased to 6GB on amd64. An updated jail(8) subsystem that + supports multi-IPv4/IPv6/noIP and much more. Lots of FreeBSD + Developers are in Ottawa, Canada attending The FreeBSD Developer + Summit that is before BSDCan. BSDCan officially starts tomorrow and + should cover lots of interesting topics, see the + BSDCan Website + + for more information.

+ +

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you + enjoy reading.

+
+ + + proj + + Projects + + + + team + + FreeBSD Team Reports + + + + arch + + Architectures + + + + docs + + Documentation + + + + soc + + Google Summer of Code + + + + FreeBSD BugBusting Team + + + + + Mark + + Linimon + + + bugmeister@ + + + + + Remko + + Lodder + + + bugmeister@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

We continue to classify PRs as they arrive, with 'tags' + corresponding to the kernel subsystem, or man page referencesfor + userland PRs. These tags, in turn, produce lists of PRs sorted both + + + by tag + + and + + by manpage + + . Mark Linimon (linimon@) has created + + special reports for the Release Engineering Team + + to help focus on regressions and other areas of interest relating + to the release of FreeBSD 7.2 in the coming weeks. This is a + refinement of the + + 'customised reports for developers' + + announced in the last status report. A full list of all the + + automatically generated reports + + is also available. Any recommendations for reports which do not + currently exist but which would be beneficial are welcomed. Mark + Linimon also continues attempting to define the general problem and + investigating possible new workflow models, and will be presenting + on the subject at BSDCan. The list of + + PRs recommended for committer evaluation + + by the bugbusting team continues to receive new additions. This + list contains PRs, mostly with patches, that the bugbusting team + feel are probably ready to be committed as-is, or are probably + trivially resolved in the hands of a committer with knowledge of + the particular subsystem. All committers are invited to take a look + at this list whenever they have a spare 5 minutes and wish to close + a PR. Since the last status report, the number of open bugs has + continued to hover around the 5600 mark, although has began to rise + with the 7.2 ports freeze. As always, more help is appreciated, and + committers and non-committers alike are invited to join us on + #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet and help close stale PRs or commit + patches from valid PRs.

+ + + + Try to find ways to get more committers helping us with + closing PRs that the team has already analyzed. + + Think of some way for committers to only view PRs that have + been in some way 'vetted' or 'confirmed'. + + Generate more publicity for what we've already got in place, + and for what we intend to do next. + + Define new categories, classifications, and states for PRs, + that will better match our workflow (in progress). + +
+ + + Clang replacing GCC in the base system + + + + + Ed + + Schouten + + + ed@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Roman + + Divacky + + + rdivacky@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Brooks + + Davis + + + brooks@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Pawel + + Worach + + + pawel.worach@gmail.com + + + + + + Building FreeBSD with Clang + + Clang patchset + + Clang website + + + +

The last 3-4 months we've been working together with the LLVM + developers to discuss any bugs and issues we are experiencing with + their Clang compiler frontend. The FreeBSD project is looking at + the possibility to replace GCC with Clang as a system compiler. It + can compile 99% of the FreeBSD world and can compile booting kernel + on i386/amd64 but it still contains bugs and its C++ support is + still immature.

+ +

Ed is maintaining a patchset for the FreeBSD sources to replace + cc(1) by a Clang binary and bootstrap almost all sources with the + Clang compiler.

+ +

The LLVM developers are very helpful fixing most of the bugs + we've reported (over 100). Unfortunately we are currently blocked + on some bug reports that prevent us from building libc, libm, + libcrypto and various CDDL libraries with Clang but the FreeBSD + kernel itself compiles and boots.

+ + + + Testing Clang with compilation of various applications and + reporting bugs. + + Testing the llvm-bmake branch to find more bugs. + + Arranging an experimental ports build. + +
+ + + Hungarian Documentation Project + + + + + Gábor + + Kövesdán + + + gabor@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Gábor + + Páli + + + pgj@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Hungarian Web Page for + FreeBSD + + Hungarian Documentation + for FreeBSD + + + The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project's Wiki Page + + + Perforce Depot for the FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation + Project + + + +

We are proud to announce that the FreeBSD Hungarian web pages + have been extended by the following items:

+ +
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  • Project news entries, staring from 2009 (HTML, RSS, RDF)
  • + +
  • Press releases, starting from 2008 (HTML, RSS)
  • + +
  • Events, starting from 2009 (HTML, RSS)
  • + +
  • Security advisories (HTML, RSS)
  • +
+ +

We are still hoping that having the + FDP + Primer + + translated will encourage others to help our work. Feel free to + contribute, every submitted line of translation or feedback is + appreciated and is highly welcome. For more information on how to + contribute, please read the project's + + introduction + + (in Hungarian).

+ + + + Translate news entries, press releases. + + Translate Release Notes for -CURRENT and 8.X. + + Translate articles. + + Translate web pages. + + Read the translations, send feedback. + +
+ + + German Documentation Project + + + + + Johann + + Kois + + + jkois@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Martin + + Wilke + + + miwi@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

+

In Februay 2009 the German version of the FreeBSD Developer's + handbook went online. Additionally we managed to update large + areas of the FAQ thanks to the contributions of Benedict + Reuschling.

+ +

The website (at least the areas we see as relevant for a + translation) is translated and updated constantly.

+ +

More volunteers are always welcome of course, as there is + still plenty of work to be done.

+

+ + + + Update the existing documentation set (especially the + handbook). + + Read the translations. Check for problems/mistakes. Send + feedback. + +
+ + + + BSD-licensed text-processing tools + + + + + Gábor + + Kövesdán + + + gabor@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + Perforce repository + + + +

Currently, grep is finished and is only waiting for a portbuild + test. It is known to be more or less feature complete, while it is + much smaller than the GNU version.

+ +

As for sort, there has been some progress with the complete + rewrite and it is lacking few options. Performance is to be + measured, as well.

+ + + + Test grep on pointyhat. + + Complete sort with the missing features. + + Do performance measurements for sort and look for possible + optimization opportunities. + + Test sort on pointyhat. + +
+ + + OpenBSM + + + + + Robert + + Watson + + + rwatson@FreeBSD.org + + + + + TrustedBSD audit mailing list + + + trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org + + + + + OpenBSM web page + + + +

The TrustedBSD Project has now released OpenBSM 1.1, the second + production release of the OpenBSM code base. OpenBSM 1.1 has been + merged to FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, and will be merged to 7-STABLE before + FreeBSD 7.3. Major changes since OpenBSM 1.0 include: +

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  • Trail files now include the host where the trail is + generated. Crash recovery has been improved. Trail expiration + based on size and date is now supported; by default trail files + will be expired after 10MB of trails. The default individual + trail limit is now 2MB.
  • + +
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard is now a fully supported platform; + launchd(8) can now be used to launchd auditd(8). Command line + tools and libraries are now supported on Mac OS X Leopard.
  • + +
  • Extended header tokens are now supported, allowing audit + trails to be tagged with a host identifier. IPv6 addresses are + now supported in subject tokens. BSM token and record types have + been further synchronized to OpenSolaris; support for many new + system calls has been added. Local errors and socket types are + mapped to and from BSM values.
  • +
+ + Since the last test release, OpenBSM 1.1 beta 1, 32/64-bit + compatibility has been fixed for the auditon(2) system call. A + default "expire-after" of 10MB is now set in audit_control(5). + Local fcntl(2) arguments are now mapped to wire BSM versions using + new APIs. The audit_submit(3) man page has been fixed. A new audit + event class has been added for post-login authentication and access + control events.

+ + + + Migrate to sbufs in token-encoding. + + Support for auditing NFS RPCs. + +
+ + + FreeBSD/powerpc G5 Support + + + + + Nathan + + Whitehorn + + + nwhitehorn@freebsd.org + + + + + + + +

FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT now has support for PowerPC CPUs operating + in the 64-bit bridge mode. This includes the PowerPC 970 (G5) as + well as the POWER3 and POWER4. Currently only Apple systems are + known to work.

+ + + + IBM systems currently are not supported due to missing + northbridge support. + + Software fan control on SMU-based Apple G5 systems (G5 iMac, + later Powermac G5) is not available. + +
+ + + Release Engineering + + + + + Release Engineering Team + + + re@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

The Release Engineering Team (with lots of help from lots of + other people) released FreeBSD 7.2 on May 4th, 2009. During this + period we have also begun reminding developers of the upcoming + FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle which is scheduled to begin in early June + 2009 with release targetted at early September 2009.

+ +
+ + + Dutch Documentation Project + + + + + Remko + + Lodder + + + remko@FreeBSD.org + + + + + René + + Ladan + + + rene@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + Overview of the project and current status + + Released + documentation + + + Perforce repository + + + +

The &os; Dutch Documentation Project is an ongoing project + to translate &os; Documentation into the Dutch language.

+ +

The translation of the Handbook was completed last January. It + is kept up-to-date with the English version. Furthermore five + articles and the + flyer + + have been translated.

+ +

Some initial work has been done to translate the website, but + most likely more translators are needed to fully realize it.

+ + + + Recruit more translators. + + Keep the translations up-to-date with the English + versions. + + Finish the translation of the FAQ. + + Translate more articles and maybe some books. + +
+ + + Sysinfo - a set of scripts which document your system + + + + + Daniel + + Gerzo + + + danger@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + Public release announcement + + The + FreeBSD Forums thread + + + +

+ Sysinfo + + a shell script which purpose is to automatically gather system + information and document hardware and software configuration of the + given host system. The goal is to provide a system operator with + descriptive information about an unknown FreeBSD installation.

+ +

It consists of several modules (also shell scripts), thus is + easily extensible and provides an easy way to inspect overall + system configuration.

+ +

It has been written as part of my Bachelor thesis and its + development is a work in progress. Therefore, I would appreciate if + you could provide me with some feedback as I will defend my thesis + soon. Your feedback is welcome at the + + forums + + , or alternatively you can send me a private email.

+ +

The tool itself can now be installed using the Ports tree from + the + + sysutils/sysinfo + + port.

+ + + + Receive additional feedback. + + Perform more testing. + + Extend and improve the tool. + +
+ + + TrustedBSD MAC Framework in GENERIC + + + + + Robert + + Watson + + + rwatson@FreeBSD.org + + + + + TrustedBSD discussion mailing list + + + trustedbsd-discuss@TrustedBSD.org + + + + + TrustedBSD MAC home + page + + + +

There is on-going work to allow "options MAC" to be included in + the GENERIC kernel for 8.0 This primarily consists of performance + work to reduce overhead when policies are used, and eliminate when + none are configured. Work to date includes: +

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  • The MAC Framework now detects which object types are labeled + by policies, and MAC label storage is not allocated when it won't + be used.
  • + +
  • Add MAC Framework DTrace probes so allow more easy analysis + of MAC Framework and policy interactions.
  • + +
  • Eliminate mutex-protected reference count used to prevent + module unload during entry point invocation, and replace with an + sx lock and an rwlock, respectively for long-sleepable and + short-sleepable entry points, significantly lowering the overhead + of entering the MAC Framework. If no dynamic policies are loaded, + no locking overhead is taken.
  • +
+

+ + + + Move to rmlocks for non-sleepable entry points to reduce + cache line thrashing under load. + + Macroize invocation of MAC Framework entry points from the + kernel, and perform caller-side determination of whether MAC is + enabled in order to avoid additional function call overhead in the + caller path if MAC is disabled. + +
+ + + FreeBSD/sparc64 UltraSPARC III support + + + + + Marius + + Strobl + + + marius@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Like announced in the previous status report, support for + sun4u-machines based on UltraSPARC III and beyond has been MFC'ed + to stable/7 (the last missing piece was r190297) and thus will be + present in the upcoming 7.2-RELEASE and can be already tested with + 7.2-RC1. Additionally, as of r191076 machfb(4) has been fixed to + work with UltraSPARC III and beyond, that fix unfortunately did not + make it into 7.2-RC1 but will be in the final version. The X.Org + 7.4 and firefox ports as well as some other gecko-based ones like + seamonkey once again have been fixed to also work and package on + sparc64, including on UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC IIIi based + machines equipped with cards driven by creator(4) or machfb(4). The + driver for the Sun Cassini/Cassini+ as well as National + Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn Gigabit NICs found on-board for + example in Fire V440 and as add-on cards is coming along nicely, + the last thing which needs to be implemented before it can hit + CURRENT is support for jumbo frames.

+ +
+ + + VFS/NFS DTrace Probes + + + + + Robert + + Watson + + + rwatson@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + +

A new DTrace provider, dtnfsclient, has been added to the + FreeBSD 8.x kernel, and will be merged to 7.x before 7.3. The + following probes are available: +

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  • nfsclient:{nfs2,nfs3}:{procname}:start - NFSv2 and NFSv3 RPC + start probes
  • + +
  • nfsclient:{nfs2,nfs3}:{procname}:done - NFSv2 and NFSv3 RPC + done probes
  • + +
  • nfsclient:accesscache:: - NFS access cache + flush/hit/miss/load probes
  • + +
  • nfsclient:attrcache:: - NFS attribute cache + flush/hit/miss/done
  • +
+ + In addition, a number of VFS probes have been added: +
    +
  • vfs:vop:{vopname}:entry - VOP entry probe
  • + +
  • vfs:vop:{vopname}:return - VOP return probe
  • + +
  • vfs:namei:lookup:entry - VFS name lookup entry probe
  • + +
  • vfs:namei:lookup:return - VFS name lookup return probe
  • + +
  • vfs:namecache:*:* - VFS namecache + enter/enter_negative/fullpath_enter/fullpath_hit/fullpath_miss/fullpath_return/lookup_hit/lookup_hit_negative/lookup_miss/purge/purge_negative/purgevfs/zap/zap_negative + probes
  • +
+ + These probes make it much easier to trace NFS and VFS events.

+ + + + Add VFSOP tracing. + + Add RPC-layer tracing, such as RPC retransmits. + + Provide decoded NFS RPCs in order to expose transaction IDs + and file handles. + +
+ + + VirtualBox on FreeBSD + + + + + Beat + + Gaetzi + + + beat@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Bernhard + + Froehlich + + + decke@bluelife.at + + + + + Dennis + + Herrmann + + + dhn@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Martin + + Wilke + + + miwi@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + Virtualbox on FreeBSD Annocment + + + Vbox first Screenshots + + + SUCCESS from Bernhard Froehlich + + + +

After the first mail from Alexander Eichner on the vbox-dev + mailinglist, we are started the work on a virtualbox port. 6 Days + was needed to get virtualbox to start with over 20 patches. We'd + like to say thanks to Alexander Eichner all vbox developers, Gustau + Perez and Ulf Lilleengen. If you like to play with the current port + you can checkout the port + + here + + . Please do not ping us about any problems we know about a lot and + still working to get all solved befor we officel call for + testing.

+ + + + Fix kernel crashes on 7.2-RELEASE. + + Code cleanup. + + Fix errors on AMD64. + + Fix user/permission problems. + +
+ + + Device mmap() Extensions + + + + + John + + Baldwin + + + jhb@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

GPU device drivers are increasingly requiring more sophisticated + support for mapping objects into both userland and the kernel. For + example, memory used for textures often needs to be mapped + Write-Combining rather than Write-Back. I have recently created + three patches to provide several extensions.

+ +

The first patch allows device drivers to use a different VM + object to back specific mmap() calls instead of always using the + device pager. The second patch introduces a new VM object type that + can map an arbitrary set of physical address ranges. This can be + used to let userland mmap PCI BARs, etc. The third patch allows + memory mappings to use different caching modes (e.g. + Write-Combining or Uncacheable).

+ +

Together I believe these patches provide the remaining pieces + needed for an Nvidia amd64 driver. They will also be useful for + future Xorg DRM support as well. The current set of patches can be + safely merged back to 7.x as well.

+ +

Currently I am waiting for review and feedback from several + folks. I am hopeful that these patches will be in HEAD soon, prior + to the 8.0 freeze.

+ +
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The FreeBSD Quarterly Development Status Report attempts to address this problem by providing a vehicle that allows developers to make the broader community aware of their on-going work on FreeBSD, both in and out of the central source repository. For each project and sub-project, a one paragraph summary is included, indicating progress since the last summary. If it is a new project, or if a project has not submitted any prior status reports, a short description may precede the status information.

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The January - March, 2009 Status Reports are now + available with 15 entries. + + + 5

New committer, SoC alumnus: Nick Barkas (src)

4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

4 24 FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 Available

The second of two planned Release Candidates for the &os; 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

21 DCBSDCon Videos Posted

All of the technical sessions from the recent DCBSDCon 2009 conference were recorded and are now available in the BSDConferences channel on YouTube. There are now 50 separate videos of technical talks from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, and BSDCan available in the channel.

17 FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available

The first of two planned Release Candidates for the &os; 7.2-RELEASE cycle is now available. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

12

Enhanced commit privileges: Gábor Páli (ports, doc)

10 PC-BSD 7.1 Released

PC-BSD 7.1 has been released. PC-BSD is a successful desktop operating system based on FreeBSD that focuses on providing an easy to use desktop system for casual computer users. A list of new features/updates since the last version can be found here.

The new release may be downloaded or purchased on DVD.

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New committer: Rick Macklem (src)

3 FreeBSD 7.2-BETA1 Available

The final stage of the &os; 7.2-RELEASE cycle has begun with the first beta release. ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on most of the &os; mirror sites.

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New committer: Steven Kreuzer (ports)

22 The &os; Project participates in the Google Summer of Code 2009 program

We are pleased to announce that Google has invited the &os; Project to participate in their Summer of Code 2009 program, which allows students to get paid to work on the &os; source code. We invite students interested in working on &os; to submit their proposals as soon as possible.

For more information please see the &os; Summer Projects page for recommended project ideas and the official announcement.

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New committer: Fabien Thomas (src)

12 Follow FreeBSD on Twitter

There are a number of semi-official Twitter streams available now with the latest updates from the FreeBSD Project. The @freebsdannounce stream provides a short summary and link to the full newsflash posts. @freebsdblogs syndicates the FreeBSD developer blogs from Planet FreeBSD. @freebsd syndicates both of the above sources and more. Finally, the new @bsdevents stream includes all the events from our events page plus additional reminders and notices of BSD gatherings.

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New committer: Andriy Gapon (src)

14 KDE 4.2.0 available for FreeBSD

KDE 4.2.0 has been merged into the ports tree. For a detailed list of improvements, please refer to the announcement. For general information about KDE on FreeBSD, please see the KDE on FreeBSD project page.

1 28 October - December, 2008 Status Reports

The October - December, 2008 Status Reports are now available with 19 entries.

New committer: Beat Gätzi (ports)

New committer: Jamie Gritton (src)

17 FreeBSD Kernel Internals Video Posted

The first lecture from Kirk McKusick's full length FreeBSD Kernel Internals course has been posted to the BSD Conferences channel on YouTube.

9 GNOME 2.24.2 Available for FreeBSD

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.24.2 for FreeBSD. More details can be found on the FreeBSD GNOME Project page.

5 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Available

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.