Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:17:39 GMT From: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: b7652065c4 - main - In Memoriam: Hans Petter Selasky Message-ID: <202503172117.52HLHd1N013372@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by ziaee: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=b7652065c4c73db4aa48ff5b71a66b1c38637567 commit b7652065c4c73db4aa48ff5b71a66b1c38637567 Author: Jim Brown <jpb@jimby.name> AuthorDate: 2025-03-17 21:08:00 +0000 Commit: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-03-17 21:08:04 +0000 In Memoriam: Hans Petter Selasky Discussed with: gallatin, imp Reviewed by: dbaio, lwhsu Approved by: gallatin Approved by: carlavilla, mhorne (mentors) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49215 --- .../articles/contributors/contrib-develinmemoriam.adoc | 18 +++++++++++++++++- shared/authors.adoc | 2 +- shared/contrib-additional.adoc | 1 - shared/contrib-committers.adoc | 1 - shared/contrib-develalumni.adoc | 1 + 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/content/en/articles/contributors/contrib-develinmemoriam.adoc b/documentation/content/en/articles/contributors/contrib-develinmemoriam.adoc index 8234751115..1d2030e11b 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/articles/contributors/contrib-develinmemoriam.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/articles/contributors/contrib-develinmemoriam.adoc @@ -1,4 +1,20 @@ - +* Hans Petter Selasky (1982 - 2023; RIP 2023) ++ +The FreeBSD community remembers Hans Petter Selasky who passed away in Lillesand, Norway on June 23, 2023 at the age of 41. +Hans was an incredibly brilliant and kind person, and made many valuable contributions to FreeBSD. +He was best known for re-writing and maintaining the USB stack and the webcamd package which enables modern teleconferencing on FreeBSD. +Most recently, he worked for Mellanox (now Nvidia) to support their ConnectX series of high speed NICs on FreeBSD. +Hans’s work included major contributions to the kernel TLS framework, as well as support for NIC kTLS send and receive offload in the mce(4) driver. ++ +One example improvement was his idea to sort incoming TCP packets using the NIC provided RSS flow identifiers in order to present LRO with all packets from the same TCP connection back to back. +This idea was crucial to Netflix's ability to serve 100Gb/s of video traffic from a single machine. ++ +Outside of FreeBSD, Hans’s hobbies included music and mathematics. +He was active in his church, and contributed to its sound team. +He was a loving and dedicated uncle to his nieces and nephews. +He loved animals, especially his cat Pumba. ++ +A longer edition of this remembrance can be found on link:https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/in-memoriam-hans-petter-william-sirevag-selasky.89697/[this FreeBSD Forum page]. * Bruce D. Evans (1991 - 2019; RIP 2019) + Bruce was a programming giant who made FreeBSD his home. diff --git a/shared/authors.adoc b/shared/authors.adoc index bc17f39cb7..e4aae99c88 100644 --- a/shared/authors.adoc +++ b/shared/authors.adoc @@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ :hrs: {hrs-name} <{hrs-email}> :hselasky-name: Hans Petter Selasky -:hselasky-email: hselasky@FreeBSD.org +:hselasky-email: \hselasky@FreeBSD.org :hselasky: {hselasky-name} <{hselasky-email}> :hsu-name: Jeffrey Hsu diff --git a/shared/contrib-additional.adoc b/shared/contrib-additional.adoc index 50a5dc3f58..17b301c641 100644 --- a/shared/contrib-additional.adoc +++ b/shared/contrib-additional.adoc @@ -804,7 +804,6 @@ * Hannu Savolainen <mailto:hannu@voxware.pp.fi[hannu@voxware.pp.fi]> * Hans Huebner <mailto:hans@artcom.de[hans@artcom.de]> * Hans Petter Bieker <mailto:zerium@webindex.no[zerium@webindex.no]> -* Hans Petter Selasky <mailto:hselasky@c2i.net[hselasky@c2i.net]> * Hans Zuidam <mailto:hans@brandinnovators.com[hans@brandinnovators.com]> * Hans-Christian Ebke <mailto:hans-christian_ebke@gmx.de[hans-christian_ebke@gmx.de]> * Hansjoerg Pehofer <mailto:hansjoerg.pehofer@uibk.ac.at[hansjoerg.pehofer@uibk.ac.at]> diff --git a/shared/contrib-committers.adoc b/shared/contrib-committers.adoc index 884310bd9b..deed0b794e 100644 --- a/shared/contrib-committers.adoc +++ b/shared/contrib-committers.adoc @@ -308,7 +308,6 @@ * {matthew} * {tmseck} * {stas} -* {hselasky} * {lev} * {phil} * {gshapiro} diff --git a/shared/contrib-develalumni.adoc b/shared/contrib-develalumni.adoc index 98ffa7cb85..9bb4dead56 100644 --- a/shared/contrib-develalumni.adoc +++ b/shared/contrib-develalumni.adoc @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +* {hselasky} (2010 - 2024) * {jmd} (2018 - 2024) * {pfg} (2011 - 2024) * {gjb} ( - 2023)
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