From owner-p4-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 15:00:18 2010
Return-Path: SUMMARY GOES HERE This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
+ September 2010. It is the third of the four reports planned for
+ 2010. During this period, we were victims of one
+ of the biggest BSD events of the year — EuroBSDCon.
+ We hope that the ones of you who have been able to attend it
+ have enjoyed your stay. Another good news is that work on the
+ new minor versions of &os;, 7.4 and 8.2, is progressing well. This report, with 55 entries, is the longest report in
+ the whole history and shows a good condition of the &os;
+ community. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you
+ enjoy reading it. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you
- enjoy reading. Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period
+ between October and December 2010 is January 15th, 2011. &os;-CURRENT runs on the AR9132 SoC. Minor platform-specific
- tweaks are needed to use it on a given piece of hardware (eg
- where in flash the ethernet MAC address is stored.) The AR910x
+ tweaks are needed to use it on a given piece of hardware (eg.,
+ where in flash the Ethernet MAC address is stored.) The AR910x
wireless MAC/PHY is supported. The only available test platform
- uses a 2.4ghz radio; 5ghz 11a mode has not been tested. As with
- other atheros chipset support in &os;, 11n support is not yet
+ uses a 2.4GHz radio; 5GHz 11a mode has not been tested. As with
+ other Atheros chipset support in &os;, 11n support is not yet
finished. The current development platform is the TP-Link
TP-WN1043ND 802.11n wireless bridge/router. It is currently being
successfully used as a 11bg access point. pkg_patch is an tool meant to be used with the rest of the
+ pkg_patch is a tool meant to be used with the rest of the
pkg_* utilities whose job is to create and apply binary patches
to &os; package archives. The SoC project was successfully
completed but there are some open issues about the integration of
@@ -156,7 +169,7 @@
This project has two goals: pre-allocation algorithm for
- ext2fs and ext4 read-only mode. The aim of pre-allocation
- algorithm is to implement a reservation window mechanism. Now
- this mechanism has been implemented and I have submitted a patch
- file to mailing list (fs@FreeBSD.org). The aim of ext4 read-only
- mode is to make it possible to read ext4 file system in read-only
- mode when disk is formatted with default features. Until now it
- can read data from ext4 filesystem with default features in
- read-only mode. I have submitted a patch to mailing list
- (fs@FreeBSD.org). I am building a new kernel module for it, which
- calls ext4fs. This project has two goals: pre-allocation algorithm for ext2fs
+ and ext4 read-only mode. Aim of the pre-allocation algorithm is
+ to implement a reservation window mechanism. This mechanism has
+ been implemented and a patch have been submitted. The aim of
+ ext4 read-only mode is to make it possible to read ext4 file
+ systems in read-only mode when the disk is formatted with
+ default features. Until now it can read data from ext4 file
+ systems with default features in read-only mode. A patch has
+ been submitted a patch to the freebsd-fs mailing list and there
+ is a new kernel module, called ext4fs, is under development for
+ it. lme
received
+
+
+
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==== //depot/projects/docproj_nl/www/en/news/status/Makefile#11 (text+ko) ====
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.51 2010/07/22 14:20:20 danger Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/Makefile,v 1.52 2010/10/27 00:10:37 danger Exp $
.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
.include "../Makefile.conf"
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
XMLDOCS+= report-2009-10-2009-12
XMLDOCS+= report-2010-01-2010-03
XMLDOCS+= report-2010-04-2010-06
+XMLDOCS+= report-2010-07-2010-09
XSLT.DEFAULT= report.xsl
==== //depot/projects/docproj_nl/www/en/news/status/report-2010-07-2010-09.xml#2 (text+ko) ====
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-
+
Raymond Vetter
+ ATI Radeon 9800
+ fjoe
+ received
+
Mono 2.8 has been released a few days ago and is already - available in the BSD# repository. The updates breaks a few ports - so the lang/mono updated in the &os; ports tree will be delayed + available in the BSD# repository. The update breaks a few ports + so the lang/mono update in the &os; ports tree will be delayed until those programs are fixed for a smoother update experience.
Work is in progress to include some long-awaited ports such as - deskuils/gnome-do but they require a lot of testing and hacking + deskutils/gnome-do but they require a lot of testing and hacking because they have clearly been designed to run on GNU/Linux and portability has never been a priority (which is quite amusing if you consider portability is the main reason to be for mono).
@@ -245,7 +258,7 @@We recently imported the 2.8 release of Clang into head. This - release contains many new features and improvements. The - integrated assembler is in this version too, but it is not ready - for general use yet.
+We recently imported the 2.8 release of Clang into -CURRENT. + This release contains many new features and improvements. The + integrated assembler ships with this version, but it is not + ready for general use yet.
Since r212979, all necessary changes have been committed to be
able to build world with Clang, at least on amd64 and i386. It
@@ -336,8 +349,8 @@
Next up on the list is to finish the implementation for
newsyslog thereby allowing ports that need logs rotated to take
- advantage of that tool
All Octeon development is now ongoing in 9.0-CURRENT and most +
All Octeon development is now ongoing in -CURRENT and most
Octeon-specific and general MIPS changes from the old Octeon
branch have been checked in. The Simple Executive from the Cavium
Octeon SDK has been checked into Subversion and most of the
@@ -414,7 +427,7 @@
Work on new event timers infrastructure continues. In HEAD
+ Work on new event timers infrastructure continues. In -CURRENT
amd64, arm (Marvell), i386, mips, pc98, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v
architectures were refactored to use new timers API. New machine-independent timers management code written. It
+ New machine-independent timers management code was written. It
can utilize both legacy periodic and new one-shot timer
operation modes. Using one-shot mode allows significantly reduce number of
+ Using one-shot mode allows to significantly reduce the number of
timer interrupts and respectively increase CPU sleep time
- during idle periods. Timer interrupts on idle CPUs now
+ during idle periods. Timer interrupts on idle CPUs are now
generated only when they are needed to handle registered
- time-based events. Busy CPUs unluckily still receiving full
+ time-based events. Busy CPUs unluckily still receive the full
interrupt rate for purposes of resource accounting, scheduling
and timekeeping. With some additional tuning it is now possible to have
- 8-core system, receiving only about 100 interrupt per second
- and respectively have CPUs idle periods up to 100ms. This
+ With some additional tuning it is now possible to have an
+ 8-core system, receiving only about 100 interrupts per second
+ and respectively have CPU idle periods up to 100ms. This
allows to effectively use any supported CPU idle states
(C-states), that reduces power consumption and increases effect
of the Intel TurboBoost technology. New manual pages written to document this functionality:
+ New manual pages were written to document this functionality:
eventtimers(7), attimer(4), atrtc(4), hpet(4). Given the current status of fenner@'s Distfiles Survey, a new
+ Given the current status of fenner's Distfiles Survey, a new
distfile checker was written in order to have an overview for the
state of each distfile in the ports tree. The distfile checker is
also able to verify WWW entries in pkg-descr files. This is an
@@ -512,7 +524,7 @@
&os;/powerpc64 now boots multi-user SMP and is self-hosting on the Playstation 3. Booting requires a PS3 console with the OtherOS capability (fat model console with firmware < 3.21). - The only supported hardware at present is the ethernet + The only supported hardware at present is USB and the Ethernet controller.
The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an - ongoing basis, verifying how base system updates may affect the + on-going basis, verifying how base system updates may affect the ports tree, as well as providing QA runs for major ports updates. Of note, -exp runs were done for:
@@ -694,14 +706,14 @@During the last two months the USB stack in &os;-current has - been enhanced to support USB 3.0 and the XHCI USB 3.0 chipset - from Intel. The XHCI chip will eventually replace the EHCI, OHCI - and UHCI chips.
+During the last two months the USB stack in -CURRENT has been + enhanced to support USB 3.0 and the XHCI USB 3.0 chipset from + Intel. The XHCI chip will eventually replace the EHCI, OHCI and + UHCI chips.
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