diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/hackathon.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/hackathon.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f41bd79d01 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/hackathon.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +=== Hackathon 202606 -- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/202606[Hackathon/202606 Wiki Page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/202606[] + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon[FreeBSD Hackathon Wiki Page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon[] + +Contact: Joe Mingrone + +After link:https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/[BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa], some members of the community gathered for a hackathon at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. +Across the three repositories, 93 commits landed with the tag `Event: Halifax Hackathon 202606`. + +Much of this work is described in separate report entries, but here is a high-level summary. +The bulk of the src work focused on CPU power management. +Most of it landed in man:hwpstate_intel[4], which received fixes for several MSR and uninitialized variable bugs, moved the energy performance preference to an 8-bit scale, and replaced `thread_lock()` and `sched_bind()` with IPIs. +A new `cpu_get_pcpuid()` KPI was also added and adopted by both man:hwpstate_intel[4] and `hwpstate_amd`. +A sweep through the ACPI code tightened the types of the sleep and wake event handlers, removed unused disable flags from `acpi_cpu`, man:acpi_hpet[4], and `acpi_timer`, and made the kernel refuse S4 when S4BIOS is not supported. +For laptop support, a new `hrfkill` driver was committed for the airplane key on some Framework laptops, evdev reporting of the microphone mute key was added to man:acpi_ibm[4], and man:iichid[4] was changed to always release its interrupt resource. +Other src commits touched libusb, libdtrace, libcxxrt, man:ifconfig[8], `sched_ule`, and a number of manual pages. +In ports, the default Python was switched to 3.12, a new package:databases/py-oracledb[] port was added, and a package:sysutils/consolekit2[] change enabled S0ix suspend on 16-CURRENT. +The Emacs ports received various updates and improvements; the R, Jenkins, and some bioinformatics ports were updated. +The documentation work added a Handbook section on ZFS native encryption, updated the geli encrypted swap instructions, and improved the FDP Primer guidance on generating patches with context. + +Here are the raw hackathon commits across the link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/?qt=grep&q=Event%3A.*Halifax+Hackathon+202606[doc], link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/?qt=grep&q=Event%3A.*Halifax+Hackathon+202606[ports], and link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=grep&q=Event%3A.*Halifax+Hackathon+202606[src] repositories. + +While most of the time was spent hacking, it was not all work, as link:https://p.obiw.ac/s/hfx[the photos] show. +Participants spent some evenings and half a day on fun. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation (meal)