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Date:      Sat, 31 May 2003 14:24:59 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        re@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <20030531142459.A90361@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <200305311300.h4VD0GUE084477@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:00:16AM -0400
References:  <200305311300.h4VD0GUE084477@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:00:16AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> This is an automated bi-daily mailing of the FreeBSD 5.1 open issues list.
> The live version of this list is available at:
> 
>     http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/todo.html
> 
> Automated mailing of this list will continue through the release of
> FreeBSD 5.1.
> 
> 
>                             FreeBSD 5.1 Open Issues
> 
>                                   Open Issues
> 
>    This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD 5.1. If
>    you have any updates for this list, please e-mail re@FreeBSD.org.
> 
>   Must Resolve Issues for 5.1-RELEASE
> 
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>    |      Issue       |   Status    | Responsible |       Description       |
>    |------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------|
>    |                  |             |             | There are reports of    |
>    | ipfw/ipfw2       |             |             | alignment problems with |
>    | alignment issues | In progress | Luigi Rizzo | ipfw and/or ipfw2 on    |
>    | on alpha/sparc64 |             |             | 64-bit platforms        |
>    |                  |             |             | (specifically alpha and |
>    |                  |             |             | sparc64).               |
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

i posted patches and a detailed description for this item
3 weeks ago to re@ and then the same was forwarded a couple of weeks
ago to the relevant lists (ipfw, sparc64, alpha) and got no 
useful feedback (in detail, two message: one 'cannot apply the patch',
the other one 'it dumps core' without further details).

As i do not have access to these platforms, all i can do is provide
code and make sure that it compiles (which i did, using a cross-build),
but for running it (part of the problem involves the kernel) i need
someone with root&console access to test them.

I would interpret the absence of feedback as a "nobody cares enough"
(which is perfectly fine given that these platforms are a negligible
fraction of the installed base, there are more important issues to
address and these particular ones should have a relatively trivial
fix).

	cheers
	luigi

>   Desired Features for 5.1-RELEASE
> 
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>    |    Issue     |    Status     |    Responsible     |    Description     |
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
>   Documentation items that must be resolved for 5.1
> 
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>    |    Issue     |    Status     |    Responsible     |    Description     |
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
>   Areas requiring immediate testing
> 
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>    |       Issue       | Status |  Responsible  |        Description        |
>    |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>    |                   |        |               | The 20030228 vendor       |
>    | Fresh ACPI-CA     | --     | --            | sources have been         |
>    | import            |        |               | imported. Further testing |
>    |                   |        |               | is appreciated.           |
>    |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>    |                   |        |               | PAE support allows the    |
>    |                   |        |               | use of up to 64GB of RAM  |
>    | PAE support for   | --     | --            | on Pentium Pro and above  |
>    | i386              |        |               | systems. Virtual          |
>    |                   |        |               | addresses are still       |
>    |                   |        |               | constrained to 32-bits.   |
>    |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>    |                   |        |               | The recently upgraded     |
>    |                   |        |               | if_wi driver is more      |
>    |                   |        |               | tuned to Prism hardware   |
>    |                   |        |               | than to Lucent hardware,  |
>    | if_wi problems on |        |               | resulting in system       |
>    | Lucent hardware   | --     | --            | lockups and poor          |
>    |                   |        |               | performance when using    |
>    |                   |        |               | Lucent hardware. These    |
>    |                   |        |               | problems are believed to  |
>    |                   |        |               | be fixed but more testing |
>    |                   |        |               | is welcome.               |
>    |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>    |                   |        |               | For 5.1-RELEASE, the      |
>    |                   |        |               | default file system type  |
>    |                   |        |               | for newly created file    |
>    |                   |        |               | systems is UFS2 rather    |
>    | UFS2 as           |        |               | than UFS1. newfs(8) and   |
>    | installation,     | --     | Robert Watson | sysinstall(8) have been   |
>    | newfs default     |        |               | updated to use this new   |
>    |                   |        |               | default. Testing to make  |
>    |                   |        |               | sure all goes well after  |
>    |                   |        |               | the change (committed on  |
>    |                   |        |               | April 20, 2003) is vital. |
>    |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>    |                   |        |               | Support for pluggable     |
>    |                   |        |               | directory services using  |
>    |                   |        |               | NSS, including            |
>    |                   |        |               | adaptations of current    |
>    |                   |        | Jacques       | directory services (local |
>    | NSSwitch support  | --     | Vidrine       | databases, NIS), and      |
>    |                   |        |               | support for new services  |
>    |                   |        |               | (LDAP, Active Directory,  |
>    |                   |        |               | etc). This change has     |
>    |                   |        |               | been committed, and       |
>    |                   |        |               | requires broader testing. |
>    |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>    |                   |        |               | Kris Kennaway reports     |
>    |                   |        |               | that he has seen several  |
>    |                   |        |               | unique panics on the      |
>    | Spurious alpha    |        |               | alpha machines, but since |
>    | panics            | --     | --            | gdb -k doesn't work on    |
>    |                   |        |               | alpha I haven't been able |
>    |                   |        |               | to get more than a DDB    |
>    |                   |        |               | traceback. No-one has     |
>    |                   |        |               | looked into them.         |
>    +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
>      ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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