ClonOS: New &os;-Based Free/Open Hosting Platform

From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Mon Oct 31 03:55:45 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64C3C26971; Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A35A133C; Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u9V3tibp085525; Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:55:44 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u9V3tiGe085524; Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:55:44 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201610310355.u9V3tiGe085524@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:55:44 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49613 - 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-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 03:55:45 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Mon Oct 31 03:55:44 2016 New Revision: 49613 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49613 Log: Make an editing pass through the 2016Q3 report Remove empty categories, and try to standardize on markup and capitalization for certain classes of things. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Sun Oct 30 09:50:53 2016 (r49612) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Mon Oct 31 03:55:44 2016 (r49613) @@ -66,12 +66,6 @@ - bin - - Userland Programs - - - ports Ports @@ -83,12 +77,6 @@ Documentation - - misc - - Miscellaneous - - ClonOS: New &os;-Based Free/Open Hosting Platform @@ -144,7 +132,7 @@ We would like to see ClonOS in real-world use. In this regard we are interested in finding more people and companies - who used &os; in hosting tasks. In addition, it could be + that use &os; in hosting tasks. In addition, it could be great to work with the developers of existing NAS solutions (zfsGuru, NAS4Free). @@ -272,7 +260,7 @@ Play around with CloudABI and let us know what you think of it! Full support for amd64 and arm64 is part of &os; 11.0. - i686 and armv6 support is only available on HEAD, but will be + i686 and armv6 support is only available on head, but will be merged to the stable/11 branch in the future. Interested in Python programming? Give our copy of Python @@ -616,8 +604,8 @@ I need more examples of rare Linux Audit logs; please send me some examples if you have any. It is much easier to - improve the conversion process with real-life examples of the - audit events you try to convert. + improve the conversion process with real-life examples of + audit events as you write the code to convert them. Configure auditdistd to be able to communicate with some software on CentOS over TLS in order to receive @@ -643,7 +631,7 @@ -

Non-Transparent Bridges allow creation of memory windows +

Non-Transparent Bridges allow the creation of memory windows between different systems using the regular PCIe links of CPUs as a transport. During the last quarter, the NTB subsystem gained a significant set of improvements and fixes:

@@ -674,7 +662,7 @@ - The project is sponsored by iXsystems, Inc. + iXsystems, Inc. @@ -714,20 +702,20 @@

The ZFS code base in &os; regularly gets merges of new code, - staying in sync with latest OpenZFS/Illumos sources. Among + staying in sync with the latest OpenZFS/Illumos sources. Among other things, the latest merge included the following improvements:

The ARC now mostly stores compressed data, the same as is - stored on disks, decompressing them on demand.
The L2ARC now stores the same (compressed) data as ARC +
The L2ARC now stores the same (compressed) data as the ARC without recompression, and its RAM usage was further reduced.
The largest size of indirect block possible has been - increased from 16KB fo 128KB, and speculative prefetching of + increased from 16KB to 128KB, and speculative prefetching of indirect blocks is now performed.
Improved ordering of space allocation.

The primary focus areas of the Alpine platform are - high-performance networking, storage and embedded + high-performance networking, storage, and embedded applications. The network subsystem features 10-, 25-, and 50-Gbit Ethernet controllers with support for virtualization, load-balancing, hardware offload and other advanced features.

A basic patch set has already been committed to HEAD +

A basic patch set has already been committed to head including:

I began with working through the man pages in &os;, verifying +

I began working through the man pages in &os;, verifying the details in pages which already had a history section and making patches for those which did not.

Good progress was made over last few months. Developers were +

Good progress was made over the last few months. Developers were able to mount a filesystem in read-only mode and, with some limitations, in read-write mode. The implementation still lacks some critical pieces, but the roadmap is clear.

evdev support was started by Jakub Klama as a Google SoC 2014 project, and later picked up and finished by Vladimir Kondratiev. General API and evdev support bits for - ukbd and ums were committed to HEAD. + ukbd and ums were committed to head. Support was also added for TI's AM33xx touchstreen controller (the popular BeagleBone is based on the AM33xx) and the official touschreen for the Raspberry Pi. Multitouch support @@ -1183,10 +1171,10 @@

Pine64 support has been committed to head. &os; can now boot to multiuser with SMP enabled. This includes support for - clocks, the secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs, - non-maskable interrupts, the AXP81x power management unit, cpu + clocks, secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs, + non-maskable interrupts, AXP81x power management unit, cpu freqency and voltage scaling, MMC, UART, gigabit networking, - the watchdog, and the thermal sensors.

@@ -1345,9 +1333,11 @@

The item that has absorbed the largest portion of Core's attention this quarter concerns the project's handling of - security vulnerabilities in bspatch(1), libarchive(3), - FreeBSD-update(8) and portsnap(8). A partial fix was applied - in &os;-SA-16:25.bspatch but this lacks fixes to libarchive + security vulnerabilities in bspatch(1), + libarchive(3), + freebsd-update(8) and portsnap(8). + A partial fix was applied + in &os;-SA-16:25.bspatch but this lacks fixes to libarchive code that were not yet available from upstream.

SecTeam receives privileged early reports of many @@ -1356,11 +1346,11 @@ published. Early access to information about vulnerabilities is contingent on their ability to avoid premature disclosure, and without such, they could not have security advisories and - patches ready to go immediately when the vulnerability is + patches ready to go immediately when a vulnerability is published.

However, in this case, vulnerabilities were already public - and the lack of any official response from the &os; project + and the lack of any official response from the &os; Project was leading to concern amongst users and some critical press coverage. Core stepped in and published a statement clarifying the situation and the particular difficulties @@ -1489,7 +1479,7 @@ while the loader is effectively still in control. In technical terms, the SetVirtualAddressMap() call must be made with the 1:1 physical:virtual mapping on amd64 - systems, which for &os; means that the call can be only issued + systems, which for &os; means that the call can only be issued by the loader. But the loader needs to know intimate details of the kernel address map to provide the requested information. This creates a new, unfortunate, coupling @@ -1532,12 +1522,12 @@ coded and the kernel interface to access runtime services is based on it.

During the development, particularly when trying to make +

During development, particularly when trying to make the loader modifications, it was quickly realized that there were no fault-reporting facilities in loader.efi. Machine exceptions resulted in a silent hang. Curiosly, in such a situation the Intel firmware outputs the error code - over the serial port on 115200/8/1 settings, regardless of + over the serial port over 115200/8/1 settings, regardless of UEFI console configuration, which was discovered by accident. Unfortunately, the error code alone is not enough to diagnose most problems.

@@ -1547,7 +1537,7 @@ the firmware IDT and dumps the machine state to the loader console. Due to the complexity of the interception and possible bugs which might do more harm than good there, the - dumper is only activated with explicit administrator + dumper is only activated on explicit administrator action.

Note that the described work only provides the kernel @@ -1653,7 +1643,7 @@ branch. This branch should be used for radeon and amdgpu cards. The drm-next-4.7 branch should be used for i915 cards due to instabilities - in the intel driver in drm-next branch.

+ in the intel driver in the drm-next branch.

Johannes Lundberg has been working on getting the Wayland environment running on &os;. The Wayland ports are in @@ -1715,7 +1705,7 @@ November. As you can see, we need your donations to continue supporting &os; at our current level. Please consider making a donation at https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/.

+ href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/donate/.

OS Improvements

@@ -1733,7 +1723,7 @@

Provided kernel support for EFI Runtime Services - calls.
Implemented getttimeofday(2) purely in userspace for HPET timers

As part of the Cluster Administration team, Glen worked with the amazing on-site staff at NYI to rack and install two Cavium ThunderX machines, one of which is used for native - package builds for the &os;/aarch64 architecture, and the + package builds for the &os;/arm64 architecture, and the other of which is targeted to be used as a reference machine in the &os; infrastructure.

https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/

http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience

We created new handouts to promote TeachBSD.org (https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf) + href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf) and the Google Summer of Code program (https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf).

We published the July/August issue of the &os; Journal: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/.

We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and - other information to keep you in the loop of what we’re doing + provide other information to keep you in the loop of what we’re doing to support the &os; Project and community https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/.

Conferences and Events

We welcomed Kylie Liang and Philip Paeps to the Board of Directors. More information and interviews can be found at: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/.

George attended the ARM Partner Meeting in Cambridge.

Second, a common challenge occurs where applications need @@ -2060,9 +2050,9 @@

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