Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:24:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42205 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201307090724.r697ORBx093838@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 2013 New Revision: 42205 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42205 Log: - Further improvements and fixes, suggested by theraven Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:11:14 2013 (r42204) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 2013 (r42205) @@ -173,12 +173,15 @@ </links> <body> - <p>A VT-d driver was developed that implements the - <tt>busdma(9)</tt> interface using the DMA Remap units (DMARs) - found in current Intel chipsets. The driver provides - reliability and security improvements for the system by - facilitating restricted access to main memory from busmastering - devices.</p> + <p>Intel VT-d is a set of extensions that were originally designed + to allow virtualizing devices. It allows safe access to physical + devices from virtual machines and can also be used for better + isolation and performance increases. A VT-d driver was + developed that implements the <tt>busdma(9)</tt> interface using + the DMA Remap units (DMARs) found in current Intel chipsets. + The driver provides reliability and security improvements for + the system by facilitating restricted access to main memory from + busmastering devices.</p> <p>It also eliminates bounce buffering (copying) by allocating remapped regions that satisfy a device's access limitations.</p> @@ -187,7 +190,7 @@ driver will also provide PCI pass-through functionality for hypervisors.</p> - <p>This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p> + <p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p> </body> <help> @@ -240,7 +243,7 @@ <p>Testing on diverse workloads and on real multi-socket machines is required.</p> - <p>This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p> + <p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p> </body> <help> @@ -251,7 +254,7 @@ </project> <project cat='bin'> - <title>HAST Module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt></title> + <title><tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> Support in <tt>hastd(8)</tt></title> <contact> <person> @@ -266,9 +269,11 @@ <links/> <body> - <p>HAST module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> has been committed to - -CURRENT and merged to 8.x and 9.x -STABLE branches. The module - allows to monitor and manage HAST via the SNMP protocol.</p> + <p>A <tt>hastd(8)</tt> module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> has been + committed to &os; <tt>head</tt> and merged to <tt>stable/8</tt> + and <tt>stable/9</tt> branches recently. This module makes it + possible to monitor and manage <tt>hastd(8)</tt> via the SNMP + protocol.</p> </body> </project> @@ -356,7 +361,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>The KDE/&os; Team have continued to improve the experience of + <p>The KDE/&os; Team has continued to improve the experience of KDE software and Qt under &os;. During this quarter, the team has kept most of the KDE and Qt ports up-to-date, working on the following releases:</p> @@ -434,8 +439,8 @@ <p>The Documentation Project has been using old versions of markup standards until recently when we switched to a real XML toolchain and DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsolete - technologies — DSSSL and Jade. Besides, DocBook 5.0 - provides cleaner markup and some nice new features.</p> + technologies — DSSSL and Jade. DocBook 5.0 provides + cleaner markup and some nice new features.</p> <p>The objective of this project is to upgrade the documentation set to DocBook 5.0 and to find a way to properly render our @@ -787,8 +792,8 @@ user-friendly administration utilities, for example <tt>iscsictl(8)</tt> which displays SCSI device nodes for each iSCSI session. This frees the user from getting the same - information through <tt>camcontrol(8)</tt>. But there are - improvements in logging and manual pages as well.</p> + information through <tt>camcontrol(8)</tt>. There are also + improvements in logging and manual pages.</p> <p>Once the iSER support becomes stable, the work will focus on performance optimizations. The plan is to commit both the new @@ -797,7 +802,7 @@ iWARP stack (useful mostly for testing and development), SCSI passthrough and various other improvements.</p> - <p>This project is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p> + <p>This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p> </body> <help> @@ -836,14 +841,14 @@ <tt>&os;.org</tt> until the zone signatures were refreshed.</li> - <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-dtrace</tt> mailing list per George - Neville-Neil.</li> + <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-dtrace</tt> mailing list, requested + by George Neville-Neil.</li> - <li>Resurrected the <tt>freebsd-testing</tt> mailing list per - Garrett Cooper.</li> + <li>Resurrected the <tt>freebsd-testing</tt> mailing list, + requested by Garrett Cooper.</li> - <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-tex</tt> mailing list per Hiroki - Sato.</li> + <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-tex</tt> mailing list, requested by + Hiroki Sato.</li> <li>In response to another comment that our message rejection message was unclear in the case that greylisting was the @@ -860,7 +865,7 @@ </ul> </li> - <li>Initiated de-orbit for <tt>freebsd-mozilla</tt> in favor of + <li>Began replacing <tt>freebsd-mozilla</tt> with <tt>freebsd-gecko</tt>.</li> </ul> </body> @@ -893,9 +898,9 @@ </links> <body> - <p>Capsicum (lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework) is - being actively worked on. In the last few months the following - tasks have been completed:</p> + <p>Capsicum, lightweight OS capability and sandboxing framework, + is being actively worked on. In the last few months the + following tasks have been completed:</p> <ul> <li>Committed Capsicum overhaul to &os; <tt>head</tt> (r247602). @@ -953,7 +958,7 @@ for example. This requires deep understanding of how the tool in question works, not necessarily only Capsicum.</p> - <p>This work is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p> + <p>This work is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p> </body> <help> @@ -1126,25 +1131,25 @@ they are working on these days. There was a detour this year to visit the beautiful city of Naples of Italy, the home of pizza. Fortunately, the event has again gained support from numerous - and generous sponsors, such as the &os; Foundation, the EMC + and generous sponsors, such as The &os; Foundation, the EMC Corporation, iXsystems, FreeBSDMall, BSD Magazine, and many others which enabled us to cover the costs of travel and accommodation for the speakers. We are really grateful for - this!</p> + this.</p> <p>Similarly to the previous years, the whole event started with a - common dinner in the downtown (somewhere around the Ireland - Irish Pub) on Friday which suddenly turned into a do-it-yourself - pizza-fest. Then it was followed by the Saturday event at the - Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging. There we had a lot - of attendees for the associated BSDA exam in the morning — - 8 persons! The event itself had many interesting topics as - well, for example moving MCLinker into the BSD world, - organization and culture of the &os; Project, the new - <tt>callout(9)</tt> framework, building and testing ports with - Poudriere and Tinderbox, &os; in the embedded space, or building - reliable VPN networks with OpenBSD. See the links in the report - for more.</p> + dinner in the downtown (somewhere around the Irish Pub) on + Friday which suddenly turned into a do-it-yourself pizza-fest. + Then it was followed by the Saturday event at the Institute of + Biostructures and Bioimaging. There we had a lot of attendees + for the associated BSDA exam in the morning — 8 persons. + The event itself had many interesting topics as well, for + example moving MCLinker into the BSD world, organization and + culture of the &os; Project, the new <tt>callout(9)</tt> + framework, building and testing ports with Poudriere and + Tinderbox, &os; in the embedded space, or building reliable VPN + networks with OpenBSD. See the links in the report for + more.</p> </body> </project>
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