Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 23:41:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46176 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201501092341.t09NfLiE057430@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Fri Jan 9 23:41:20 2015 New Revision: 46176 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46176 Log: Add Xen report Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Fri Jan 9 22:10:32 2015 (r46175) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Fri Jan 9 23:41:20 2015 (r46176) @@ -1207,4 +1207,72 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat='kern'> + <title>FreeBSD Xen</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Roger</given> + <common>Pau Monné</common> + </name> + <email>royger@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Justin T.</given> + <common>Gibbs</common> + </name> + <email>gibbs@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_PVH">FreeBSD PVH DomU wiki page</url> + <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0">FreeBSD PVH Dom0 wiki page</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>During this quarter almost all pending Xen changes have been + committed, enabling the usage of FreeBSD as Dom0 under the new + PVH mode. The set of features supported by FreeBSD is still limited, + but it should allow for basic usage of FreeBSD as Dom0. Support for + booting Xen from the FreeBSD boot loader will be committed very soon + to HEAD.</p> + + <p>Apart from testing on a variety of hardware, work has now + shifted to improve PVH support in Xen itself in order to have feature + parity with a traditional PV Dom0 and to declare the PVH ABI as + stable.</p> + + <p>Regarding guest improvements (running FreeBSD as a DomU), + there's also ongoing work to add unmapped IO support to Xen blkfront, + which is blocked pending some modifications to the generic bounce + buffer code.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor>Citrix Systems R&D</sponsor> + <sponsor>Spectra Logic Corporation</sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Test on different hardware.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Improve backends (netback, blkback) performance.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Work with upstream Xen to improve PVH and make it stable.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Improve generic bounce buffer code for unmapped bios in order + to support blkfront alignment requirements.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> + </report>
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