From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Wed Apr 20 03:34:20 2016
Return-Path: Work is ongoing with respect to development of pNFS support
for the NFS server using GlusterFS as a back end. This will
- be a long term project with the eventual goal of allowing the
+ be a long-term project with the eventual goal of allowing the
NFS server to scale beyond a single server system. Hopefully
it will be available for testing in late Spring 2016. pNFS
- allows a NFSv4.1 client to do reads/writes directly to a data
+ allows an NFSv4.1 client to do reads/writes directly to a data
server and not the NFS server.
The purpose of this is to enable use of the Signal Processing +
This project aims to enable the use of the Signal Processing Engine found in the NXP/Freescale e500v2 SoC. The SPE uses - opcodes overlapping with Altivec, so is mutually exclusive. - Additionally, the e500v2 does not have a traditional FPU, and - instead uses the SPE for all floating point operations (or - emulation as is currently done). Combined with the fact that - the SPE ABI is incompatible with traditional ABI, a new - MACHINE_ARCH is created to address this.
+ opcodes overlapping with those of Altivec, so they are mutually + exclusive. Additionally, the e500v2 does not have a traditional + FPU, and instead uses the SPE for all floating point operations + (or emulation, as is currently done). Combined with the fact + that the SPE ABI is incompatible with the traditional ABI, a new + MACHINE_ARCH has been created to address these + incompatibilities. -A project branch has been created with the work. A - powerpcspe kernel boots on the RouterBoard RB800, and base +
A project branch has been created for the work. A + powerpcspe kernel boots on the RouterBoard RB800, and the base utilities run properly.
@@ -307,7 +308,8 @@ driver in the kernel! The driver now matches Linux 3.8.13, so it includes initial Haswell support. Linux 3.8 is already three years old, but work continues to upgrade DRM further. - In particular, the move to linuxkpi was started. + In particular, work commenced to move to using the + linuxkpi compatibility.In the Ports tree, Mesa was updated to 11.1.2. The next minor release, 11.2.0, is ready for testing in our development tree. @@ -321,21 +323,22 @@ how people can contribute. It was well received and the presentation was followed by interesting discussions. FOSDEM was also a nice occasion to meet and talk again to the nice - "upstream" developers of the graphics stack.
+ upstream developers of the graphics stack.For the first year, we added two ideas for GSoC 2016: one for a kernel task, one to redesign libdevq. Six students - submitted a proposal for those two ideas, that was unexpected! + submitted proposals for those ideas; that was unexpected! We now need to decide which one we want to mentor and the choice is difficult.
-Our blog has moved to - Graphics Team blog.
+Our blog has moved to a + new location + (linked above).
-Allwinner SoC are used in multiple hobbyist devboards and - single board computers. Recently, support for these SoC have +
Allwinner SoCs are used in multiple hobbyist devboards and + single-board computers. Recently, support for these SoCs has received a lot of updates
-Task done during first quarter :
+Task done during first quarter:
Ongoing task :
+Ongoing tasks:
Since the last report &os; support for ThunderX has been +
Since the last report, &os; support for ThunderX has been significantly improved and stabilized. Semihalf contributions include the following items:
@@ -531,14 +534,14 @@ maintained.The driver supports all available Ethernet connections (1, - 10, 30 Gbps) and system can saturate 10 Gbps link (on Tx) + 10, 30 Gbps) and the system can saturate a 10 Gbps link (on Tx) using 4 CPU cores.
This work is integrated to the FreeBSD HEAD on an on-going +
This work is integrated to &os; HEAD on an on-going basis.
@@ -584,7 +587,7 @@Support for multi Queue Set operation in VNIC
+Add support for multi-Queue Set operation in VNIC.