Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 03:52:36 +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: r50090 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201703270352.v2R3qaeF057153@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Mar 27 03:52:36 2017 New Revision: 50090 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50090 Log: Add 2017Q1 s390x entry from bz Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Sun Mar 26 22:11:05 2017 (r50089) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Mon Mar 27 03:52:36 2017 (r50090) @@ -148,4 +148,50 @@ via the po system.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>&os; s390x attempt III</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Bjoern A.</given> + <common>Zeeb</common> + </name> + <email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>A long time ago, in the &os; 5 times, there was an initial + port of &os; to s390 (32bit) and s390x (64bit) + which booted past init on good days in an emulator.</p> + + <p>As an attempt to revive the s390x/systemz efforts I started + to get &os; s390x to build with clang/llvm 3.90. + At this time it is possible to build world and a GENERIC kernel + skeleton (not doing anything yet) using external binutils.</p> + + <p>The primary idea of this initial work was to allow to + incrementally add the neccessary architecture-specific code. + Having the build framework done will allow third-party + developers to simply type <tt>make</tt>, as they are willing + to contribute to the port without having to know &os; build + specifics. After some cleanup and further updates to a more + recent HEAD I am planning to push the current work to a public + repo to allow collaboration.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Write a wiki page with per-architecture specific tasks + that need to be done based on the current work and the experience + from arm64 and riscv.</task> + + <task>Implement both the user space and kernel per-architecture + gaps.</task> + + <task>Figure out a way to get access to IBM's zPDT or better + emulators to ease implementation, testing, and debugging.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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