HAST Module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt>

From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D923F9A9; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:24:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgj@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 BCCEA1CF3; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r697ORQh093839; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:24:27 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id r697ORBx093838; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:24:27 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201307090724.r697ORBx093838@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:24:27 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:24:27 -0000 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 @@ -

A VT-d driver was developed that implements the - busdma(9) 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.

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 busdma(9) 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.

It also eliminates bounce buffering (copying) by allocating remapped regions that satisfy a device's access limitations.

@@ -187,7 +190,7 @@ driver will also provide PCI pass-through functionality for hypervisors.

This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.

This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.

@@ -240,7 +243,7 @@

Testing on diverse workloads and on real multi-socket machines is required.

This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.

This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.

@@ -251,7 +254,7 @@ - HAST Module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> + <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> Support in <tt>hastd(8)</tt> @@ -266,9 +269,11 @@ -

HAST module for bsnmpd(1) 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.

A hastd(8) module for bsnmpd(1) has been + committed to &os; head and merged to stable/8 + and stable/9 branches recently. This module makes it + possible to monitor and manage hastd(8) via the SNMP + protocol.

@@ -356,7 +361,7 @@ -

The KDE/&os; Team have continued to improve the experience of +

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:

@@ -434,8 +439,8 @@

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.

+ technologies — DSSSL and Jade. DocBook 5.0 provides + cleaner markup and some nice new features.

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 iscsictl(8) which displays SCSI device nodes for each iSCSI session. This frees the user from getting the same - information through camcontrol(8). But there are - improvements in logging and manual pages as well.

+ information through camcontrol(8). There are also + improvements in logging and manual pages.

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.

This project is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.

This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.

@@ -836,14 +841,14 @@ &os;.org until the zone signatures were refreshed. -

Created the freebsd-dtrace mailing list per George - Neville-Neil.

Created the freebsd-dtrace mailing list, requested + by George Neville-Neil.

Resurrected the freebsd-testing mailing list per - Garrett Cooper.

Resurrected the freebsd-testing mailing list, + requested by Garrett Cooper.

Created the freebsd-tex mailing list per Hiroki - Sato.

Created the freebsd-tex mailing list, requested by + Hiroki Sato.

In response to another comment that our message rejection message was unclear in the case that greylisting was the @@ -860,7 +865,7 @@

Initiated de-orbit for freebsd-mozilla in favor of +

Began replacing freebsd-mozilla with freebsd-gecko.

@@ -893,9 +898,9 @@ -

Capsicum (lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework) is - being actively worked on. In the last few months the following - tasks have been completed:

Capsicum, lightweight OS capability and sandboxing framework, + is being actively worked on. In the last few months the + following tasks have been completed:

Committed Capsicum overhaul to &os; head (r247602). @@ -953,7 +958,7 @@ for example. This requires deep understanding of how the tool in question works, not necessarily only Capsicum.
-
This work is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.
+
This work is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.
@@ -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!
+ this.

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 - callout(9) 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.
+ 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 callout(9) + 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.