Introduction

From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 13 19:31:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2AB8DF; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:31:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D9879F; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r0DJVuCX066207; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:31:56 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from gjb@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id r0DJVuG5066206; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:31:56 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201301131931.r0DJVuG5066206@svn.freebsd.org> From: Glen Barber Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:31:56 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40615 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:31:57 -0000 Author: gjb Date: Sun Jan 13 19:31:56 2013 New Revision: 40615 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40615 Log: Add the April-June 2012 status report. Prepared by: pgj Minor tweaks by: gjb Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2012-04-2012-06.xml (contents, props changed) Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2012-04-2012-06.xml ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2012-04-2012-06.xml Sun Jan 13 19:31:56 2013 (r40615) @@ -0,0 +1,1005 @@ + + + + + + April-June + + 2012 + + +

+ Introduction + +

This report covers &os;-related projects between April and June + 2012. This is the second of the four reports planned for + 2012.

+ +

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report + contains 17 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ +

Please note that the deadline for submissions covering the period + between July and December 2012 is January 15th, 2013.

+ + + proj + + Projects + + + + bin + + Userland Programs + + + + team + + &os; Team Reports + + + + kern + + Kernel + + + + net + + Network Infrastructure + + + + docs + + Documentation + + + + arch + + Architectures + + + + ports + + Ports + + + + misc + + Miscellaneous + + + + &os;/arm on ARM Fast Models Simulator for Cortex-A15 MPCore + Processor + + + + + Zbigniew + Bodek + + zbb@semihalf.com + + + + + Rafal + Jaworowski + + raj@semihalf.com + + + + + Tomasz + Nowicki + + tn@semihalf.com + + + + + Cortex-A15 product page + Fast Models product page + + + +

ARM Fast Models is platform which helps software developers + debug systems in parallel with SoC design, speeding up and + improving system development. This work is bringing up &os; on + ARM Fast Models system based on ARM Cortex-A15 and peripheral + components. It works in single user mode, using a compiled-in + kernel RAM disk minimal root file system.

+ +

Current &os; support includes:

+ +

L1, L2 cache, Branch Predictor
Dual-core (SMP) support setup in WB cache mode
Cortex-A15 integrated Generic Timer
Drivers for ARM peripheral components: +
- PL011 UART controller
- PL390 GIC - Generic Interrupt Controller
- SP804 Dual Timer
+

+ +

Next steps:

+ +

Quad-core (SMP) support
Multi-user mode

+ + + + + &os;/at91 Improvements + + + + + Warner + Losh + + imp@FreeBSD.org + + + + + &os; on ATMEL AT91 Wiki + + + +

&os;'s Atmel support has languished for some time. A number of + improvements were urgently needed as demand for newer SoCs has + materialized. New SoC support is not hard, but it does wind up + copying a lot of code. I have started down the path to make it + easier to do. I had planned on making it table driven. But + then I discovered with dts files that Atmel was producing.

+ +

So, I plan on moving to using Atmel's .dsti files, or + variations on them. They have .dsti files for all the AT91SAM9 + parts. This should allow us to support new SoCs and boards + faster.

+ +

However, there are some challenges with this approach. Pin + multiplexing seems undefined in Atmel's dts file. Only a few of + the devices are well-defined at the present time. And the + encoding seems to be immature.

+ +

So we have a target-rich port that is quite ripe for + refactoring.

+ + + + Update the base system libfdt to a version that supports + include. + Write a .dtsi for Atmel AT91RM9200. + Write .dti files for all supported boards. + Help sort out the pin multiplexing issue. + Refactor existing board files to make new ones easier in the + interim. + Knock yourself out and implement board support for new + CPUs. + + + + + BSD-Day 2012 + + + + + Gábor + Páli + + pgj@FreeBSD.org + + + + + BSD-Day 2012 web site + Video recordings of the talks at YouTube + Event photo album + + + +

For this year, we moved the time of the event earlier by six + months, so it was held on May 5, 2012 and it was co-located with + the Austrian Linuxweeks (Linuxwochen Österreich) in Vienna. + We had many sponsors, like the freshly joined &os; Foundation, + iXsystems, FreeBSDMall, BSD Magazine, allBSD.de Projekt, that + enabled us to continue our previously launched series of + multi-project BSD developer summits all around Central + Europe.

+ +

To kick off, there was a "stammtisch" (local beer meetup) + organized in the downtown of Vienna, at Kolar on the Friday + evening before the event — as usual. Then it was followed + by the event on Saturday that brought many interesting topics + from the world of &os;, OpenBSD and NetBSD: running NetBSD as an + embedded system for managing VOIP applications, introduction to + the Capsicum security framework, relayd(8), the load balancer + and proxy solution for OpenBSD, status update of the + developments around the &os; ports tree, using DVCSs in clouds, + firewalling with pfSense, and mfsBSD. Please consult the links + in the report for the details.

+ + + + + The &os; Core Team + + + + + Core Team + + core@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Announcement + + + +

The &os; Project is pleased to announce the completion of the + 2012 Core Team election. The &os; Core Team acts as the + project's "Board of Directors" and is responsible for approving + new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, + appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security + officer, release engineering, port managers, webmaster, et + cetera), and making any other administrative or policy decisions + as needed. The Core Team has been elected by &os; developers + every 2 years since 2000.

+ +

Peter Wemm rejoins the Core Team after a two-year hiatus, with + new members Thomas Abthorpe, Gavin Atkinson, David Chisnall, + Attilio Rao and Martin Wilke joining incumbents John Baldwin, + Konstantin Belousov and Hiroki Sato.

+ +

The complete newly elected core team is:

+ +

Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org>
Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org>

+ +

The new Core Team would like to thank outgoing members Wilko + Bulte, Brooks Davis, Warner Losh, Pav Lucistnik, Colin Percival + and Robert Watson for their service over the past two (and in + some cases, many more) years.

+ +

The Core Team would also especially like to thank Dag-Erling + Smørgrav for running the election.

+ + + + + The &os; Japanese Documentation Project + + + + + Hiroki + Sato + + hrs@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Ryusuke + Suzuki + + ryusuke@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Japanese &os; Web Page + The &os; Japanese Documentation Project Web Page + + + +

Our translation work has slightly moved on to handbook from the + www/ja (CVS) or htdocs (SVN) subtree, since + almost translated web page contents were updated to the latest + English counterparts.

+ +

During this period, we translated the 8.3-RELEASE announcement + and published it in a timely manner. Newsflash and some other + updates in the English version were also translated as soon as + possible.

+ +

For &os; Handbook, translation work of the "cutting-edge" and + "printing" sections have been completed. Some updates in the + "linuxemu" and "serialcomms" section were done. At this moment, + "bsdinstall", "cutting-edge", "desktop", "install", + "introduction", "kernelconfig", "mirrors", "multimedia", + "pgpkeys", "ports", "printing", and "x11" chapters are + synchronized with the English versions.

+ + + + Further translation work of outdated documents in + ja_JP.eucJP subtree. + + + + + &os; Documentation Project + + + + freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + + +

We continue to make progress in committing the work produced as + part of Google Code-In 2011; an overview of the status is at http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Status. + Doc committers and GCIN mentors are encouraged to go through the + list and help shepherd outstanding tasks into the tree.

+ +

We are planning a full day of Documentation Summit on the day + preceding the August 2012 DevSummit in Cambridge, UK. This + follows a successful DocSummit day held at BSDCan in May 2012. + Further details are available at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/201208DevSummit.

+ +

A doc sprint took place over IRC (#bsddocs on EFnet) + in early July, setting out plans for reviving the marketing team + and a strong desire for a new, more organized website.

+ +

A lot of progress and momentum has built up with creating and + updating documentation and website content over the last few + months. Also read the doceng report for the recent + infrastructure improvements.

+ +

Anyone wishing to help with this effort is welcome to join us + and say hello either on the freebsd-doc mailing list, or + #bsddocs on EFnet IRC.

+ + + + Review the website content and remove outdated parts or + update when applicable. + + Go through the doc idea list on the wiki and start working + them out. + + + + + &os; Services Control (fsc) + + + + + Tom + Rhodes + + trhodes@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

FSC has been moved into the ports system (see + sysutils/fsc) and continues to improve outside of the + ports tree. Some interesting work is being done in the area of + services control, system boot, and a simplification of the + process. Stay tuned for more information in status reports that + follow.

+ + + + Test, test, test. Feedback is really important to this + project. + + + + + &os; Haskell Ports + + + + + Gábor + PÁLI + + pgj@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Ashish + SHUKLA + + ashish@FreeBSD.org + + + + + &os; Haskell wiki page + &os; Haskell ports repository + + + +

We are proud to announce that the &os; Haskell Team has updated + the Haskell Platform to 2012.2.0.0, GHC to 7.4.1 as well as + updated existing ports to their latest stable versions. We also + added a number of new Haskell ports, and their count in &os; + Ports tree is now 336.

+ + + + Test GHC to work with clang/LLVM. + Add an option to the lang/ghc port to be able to + build it with already installed GHC instead of requiring a + separate GHC bootstrap tarball. + Commit pending Haskell ports to the &os; Ports tree. + Add more ports to the Ports Collection. + + + + + KDE/&os; + + + + + KDE + FreeBSD + + kde@FreeBSD.org + + + + + KDE/&os; home page + area51 + + + +

The team has made many releases and upstreamed many fixes and + patches. The latest round of releases include:

+ +

KDE SC: 4.8.3, 4.8.4 (in ports) and 4.8.95 (in area51)
Qt: 4.8.1, 4.8.2
PyQt: 4.9.1; SIP: 4.13.2; QScintilla 2.6.1
KDevelop: 2.3.1; KDevPlatform: 1.3.1
Calligra: 2.4.2, 2.4.3
Amarok: 2.5.90 (in area51)
CMake: 2.8.8
Digikam (and KIPI-plugins): 2.6.0

+ +

As a result — according to PortScout — kde@ has 393 + ports, of which 91% are up-to-date.

+ +

The team is always looking for more testers and porters so + please contact us and visit our home page.

+ + + + Test KDE SC 4.8.95. + Test KDE PIM 4.8.95. + Update out-of-date ports, see PortScout for a + list. + + + + + Multipath TCP (MPTCP) for &os; + + + + + Nigel + Williams + + njwilliams@swin.edu.au + + + + + Lawrence + Stewart + + lastewart@swin.edu.au + + + + + Grenville + Armitage + + garmitage@swin.edu.au + + + + + + TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses (draft) + "MultiPath TCP — Linux Kernel implementation" home page + + + +

Work is underway to create an IETF draft-compatible Multipath + TCP implementation for the &os; kernel.

+ +

A key goal of the project is to create a research platform to + investigate a range of multipath related transport issues + including congestion control, retransmission strategy and packet + scheduling policy. We also aim to provide full interoperability + with the Linux kernel implementation being developed at + Université catholique de Louvain.

+ +

We expect to release code and results at the project's home + page as it progresses.

+ + + + + SMP-Friendly pf(4) + + + + + Gleb + Smirnoff + + glebius@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Project SVN branch + + Alpha announcement email thread + + + +

The project is aimed at moving the pf(4) packet filter + out of single mutex, as well as in general improving of its &os; + port.

+ +

The project is near its finish, the code is planned to go into + head after more testing and benchmarking. If you are interested + in details, please see the corresponding email thread on + freebsd-pf (see links).

+ + + + Rewrite the pf(4) ioctl() interface so + that it does not utilize in-kernel structures. That would make + ABI more stable and ease future development. + + + + + Portbuilder + + + + + David + Naylor + + naylor.b.david@gmail.com + + + + + Git Repository + README + TODO + + + +

Since the last update there has been 2 feature releases and 4 + bug-fix releases. A highlight of the changes made:

+ +

Support has been added for:

-j: controlling concurrency per stage
pkgng: next generation package manager
installing packages via repository
dynamic defaults (loaded from + /etc/make.conf)
new options framework (aka OptionsNG)

Some of the fixes include:

correct assertions
correct build logic
retry when kevent receives EINTR
correctly detecting installed ports
many fixes in the build logic

+ +

A benchmark was run timing portbuilder against a standard ports + build of KDE (x11/kde4) in a clean chroot(8) + environment. Portbuilder achieved a build time of 2:21:16 + compared to ports build time of 4:47:21 for an decreased build + time of 51% from using portbuilder.

+ + + + + The &os; Port Management Team + + + + + Thomas + Abthorpe + + portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Port + Management Team + + portmgr@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

The ports tree slowly approaches 24,000 ports. The PR count + still is close to 1200.

+ +

In Q2 we added 7 new committers and took in one commit bit for + safe keeping.

+ +

The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an + ongoing 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:

+ +

automake update
cmake update
xorg update
png update
Fix make reinstall
Implement USE_QT4 in bsd.ports.mk
KDE4 update
XFCE4 update
bison update
perl5.14 as default
ruby1.9 as default
ruby1.8 update
bsdsort regression test

+ +

A lot of focus during this period was put into getting the + ports tree into a ready state for &os; 9.1.

+ +

A significant step forward was the implementation of + OptionsNG.

+ +

A record number of Port Managers attended BSDCan 2012, with + five being present to partake in the week of events, culminating + in a portmgr PR closing session that dealt with 18 PRs in one + day. You can see a group photo at . While you are + there, please click on the "Like" icon.

+ +

Beat Gaetzi has been doing ongoing tests with the ports tree to + ensure a smooth transition from CVS to Subversion. The tree was + successfully migrated the weekend of June 14, 2012.

+ + + + Looking for help getting ports to build with + clang. + + Looking for help fixing ports + broken on CURRENT. (List needs updating, too.) + + Looking for help with Tier-2 + architectures. + + ports + broken by src changes. + + ports + failing on pointyhat. + + ports + failing on pointyhat-west. + + ports that are + marked as BROKEN. + + When + did that port break? + + Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on + testing, committing and closing. + + + + + Redports + + + + + Bernhard + Froehlich + + decke@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + +

There was good progress in the last half a year and a lot of + support from different parties to make redports a stable and + fast service.

+ +

A long known security concern within tinderbox was raised at + the BSD-Day in Vienna which was addressed by beat. That + improves security and isolation of the concurrent running jobs a + lot and gives me peace of mind.

+ +

We also recently got two beefy machines from the &os; + Foundation which increases computing power a lot. So no more + backlogs and your jobs finish much quicker.

+ +

But as usual now that we have enough power I was able to make + another promise come true and integrated Ports QAT functionality + into redports. Ports QAT was an automated services that did a + buildtest after each commit to the official &os; ports tree. If + a build fails it sends out mails and logfiles to the committer. + That finds bad commits quickly and allows the committer to fix + it before the first user notices. The former service stopped + about 2 years ago and we had no proper replacement for that task + at hand. Now that this is fully integrated into redports it + also gives us all the nice benefits of a common platform.

+ + + + Automatic build incoming patches from Ports PRs in redports + and send results to GNATS database. + + People want an GCC testing environment on redports where all + ports are build with lang/gcc47. To make that happen + we need to patch the ports framework to handle that and + correctly bootstrap with base GCC. This also gives us the + possibility to build all our binary packages with a modern gcc + and is easy to use for regular users. Contributors? + + + + + Replacing the Regular Expression Code + + + + + Gábor + Kövesdán + + gabor@FreeBSD.org + + + + + TRE home page + + + +

It has been decided to implement the optimizations and + extensions as a more isolated layer and not directly in TRE + itself. Since the last report there has been some progress in + this direction and the code has been significantly refactored. + It does not work yet in this new form but it is close to a + working state. Apart from this, the multiple pattern matching + needs some debugging and some minor features are missing.

+ + + + Finish multiple pattern heuristic regex matching. + Implement GNU-specific regex extensions. + Test performance, standard-compliance and correct + behavior. + + + + + BSD-licensed Sort Utility (GNU sort(1) Replacement) + + + + + Oleg + Moskalenko + + oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com + + + + + Gábor + Kövesdán + + gabor@FreeBSD.org + + + + + &os; port of BSD sort(1) + IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 sort(1) specification + + + +

BSD sort(1) has been made the default sort utility in + 10-CURRENT. It is compatible with the latest GNU + sort(1), version 8.15, except that the multi-threaded + mode is not enabled by default.

+ + + + When the track record of the BSD sort(1) allows, + remove GNU sort(1) from -CURRENT. + + Improve reliability of the multi-threaded sort and + investigate the possibility of making it the default compilation + mode. + + Investigate possibility of factoring out the sort + functionality into a standalone library so that other utilities + can also make use of it. + + + + + Xorg on &os; + + + + + Martin + Wilke + + miwi@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Koop + Mast + + kwm@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Niclas + Zeising + + zeising@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Eitan + Adler + + eadler@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + +

During the beginning of this period, an update to the xorg + distribution for &os; was made, dubbed xorg 7.5.2. This update + included a new flag, WITH_NEW_XORG, to get a more + recent xorg distribution for those with modern hardware. To get + KMS support for recent Intel graphics chipsets WITH_KMS + must also be set. This requires a recent &os; 10-CURRENT or + &os; 9-STABLE.

+ + + + Switch to use FreeGLUT instead of libGLUT, since the latter + is old and has there is no upstream support or releases any + more. Work on this is mostly done. + + Update the xorg distribution to what is in the development + repository. The xorg project recently did a new release, and + the development repository contains this release. It needs more + testing before it can be merged, and a CFT was sent out in the + beginning of June. Work on this is ongoing. + + Decide how to handle the new and old xorg distributions. In + recent xorg, a lot of legacy driver support has been dropped, + therefore we need to maintain two xorg distributions to not + loose a lot of hardware drivers. Currently, this is done by *** DIFF OUTPUT TRUNCATED AT 1000 LINES ***