Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:42:46 -0500 From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org> To: vendors@freebsd.org Subject: Welcome to the FreeBSD Vendor Mailing list... Message-ID: <57CA0E31-B26C-42D7-B662-78638298C609@freebsd.org>
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Howdy, Now that we have achieved a reasonable critical mass on the mailing list = I wanted to send out this initial welcome letter and get a couple of things moving forwards. = At the end of this message I'm going to re-attach my notes from the last meeting, because some of the = people on the list were unable to attend the meeting and therefore were not in my original = addressee list. One thing I'd like to get started on is to try and pick 2 or 3 of the = top items off the "wants" list from the last meeting and try to figure it if we can get them = finished before our next=20 meeting, at BSDCan, in May of 2012. I also will start contacting people who volunteered to bring stuff back, = off list, in the next week or so to see how that is going and what they might need. =46rom the list of wants I would suggest that the following be our 2-3 = targets for May: Optimized bzero from NetBSD Infiniband Integration and Hardware in the Testlab VMDK Support The reason behind these is that I think they're achievable and they're = spread over the various areas in the notes. I'd love it if we could get more of the = things in the list done by May, and I also think that others need to chime in on this so we = can get this stuff moving along. Best, George NOTES As you remember the meeting was broken up into 3 sections, excluding the = tutorials. We tried to cover what people wanted to see in FreeBSD in upcoming releases, as = well as listing code and systems that could be given back to the community. The third = section was our discussion of HyperVisors with the presentation given by the folks from Microsoft = leading that discussion off. Below you will find three lists which represent the wants, give = backs and things required to do a good job with hypervisors. I have made up my own list of the = give backs and will be contacting people who signed up to that list, out of band, to try to = coordinate getting that work back to the community. Wants ----- Appliance Features Lights Out Remote Debug Power Management Thermal Management RAID Monitoring Environment Monitoring Suitable versions of mail and DNS Driver and Chipsets MFI, MPS, 5720 MIPS64 EFI Booting Intel Server Chipset Support Embedded Need Smaller Kernel Embedded Flash FS ports cross build Release as !root More MIPS Testing OpenWRT on MIPS Proper Debug and Profiling on MIPS Filesystems ZFSD ZFS Performance NFS Performance Dynamic Growth UFS Networking Infiniband Integration and Hardware in the Testlab Sockets in multiple VNETS VNETS and jails more independent netisr RSS API QLogic/Emulex CNA 802.11N TCP Quick Start CongesgMon (lstewart) AltQ Mmer Net Protocol Updates FIB/RIB IPv6 iptables + IPv6 More protocol stack hooks Packaging and Build Changes Reusable sysinstall upgrade FreeBSD Upgrade Scaling and Performance Multicore SMP NUMA Vimage More NUMA Core Aware Scheduling Latest CPU Features HPC Features 512G+ Scalability Optimized bzero from NetBSD VNET Scalability GPU Support CPU Queueing PCI Hot Plug HPZ800 Support Shared System Memory Tools GPLv3 Tools External Toolchain Support GDB Support Continued DTrace Support valgrind Google Perf Tools lldb Virtualization VMWare Efficiences VxNet Support VMDK Support Contributions ------------- I have incuded names or freebsd.org emails where I had them for this = list. I am also tracking this separately and will begin to ask people for things = directly in the coming weeks. gif improvements | rrs | security moduleMon | rrs | MIPS work [Cavium] | rrs | rtld enhancements | Doug A | libraries hints | Doug A | Driver/OS Updates | Doug A | graid SATA/NQQ | Matt or Mav | Xen/VMWare | Tom G | Multipathing | mav | Drivers ATA,SCSI,RAID | Xin Li | ZFS Improvments | Xin Li | SES | Josh P. | BHive->Head | Peter Grehan | PCI Errors | Peter G. | Kernel text segment write protect | Peter G. | Per CPU Interrupt Stack | Peter G. | GDB Server Multithread | Peter G. | VMDQ | rstone@ | disk firmware | current@ | enhanced memtest | bz@ | winbond watchdog | bz@/Xin Li | rasum system error | emaste | netdump | gnn, Atillio, rwatson | in kernel fast packet path (BSDCan paper) | emaste | Kexec | John G. (Isilon) | NFS 4.1 | John G. | OFED | John G. | CAM Multipath | gibbs@ | Dom 0 64 Bit | gibbs@ | 802.11n | adrian@ | MIPS 24K pmc | adrian@ | ARM v6/v7 | raj@ | Applied Micro | raj@ | FreeScale | raj@ | NAND Flash File System | raj@ | cypto accel | raj@ | FUSE | gnn@ | Virtualization -------------- These items came out of our discussion of virtualization. Paravirtualization vs. HVM Cloud Tools What about OpenStack? Time Keeping (patch by Alexander Motin) Growable FS makefs for UFS2 netfront drivers
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