Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:18:08 +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: r48021 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601150418.u0F4I8B2074352@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Fri Jan 15 04:18:08 2016 New Revision: 48021 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48021 Log: Add entry on armv6/v7 improvements from zbb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Fri Jan 15 03:54:50 2016 (r48020) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Fri Jan 15 04:18:08 2016 (r48021) @@ -2393,4 +2393,82 @@ Mellanox Technologies </sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>Improvements for ARMv6/v7 support</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Dominik</given> + <common>Ermel</common> + </name> + <email>der@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Wojciech</given> + <common>Macek</common> + </name> + <email>wma@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Zbigniew</given> + <common>Bodek</common> + </name> + <email>zbb@semihalf.com</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>Numerous improvements for the ARMv6/v7 kernel and tools + have been developed by the Semihalf team. Those include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Fixes for KGDB support.</li> + + <li>Support for branch instructions in <tt>ptrace</tt> single + stepping.</li> + + <li>Fixes for kernel minidumps.</li> + + <li>Improvements for LIBUSBBOOT.</li> + + <li>Support for Exynos EHCI in the loader.</li> + + <li>A fix for instruction single stepping in DDB.</li> + + <li>Support for hardware watchpoints, including watchpoints + on SMP systems.</li> + + <li>Single stepping using the ARM Debug Architecture.</li> + + <li>Support for gzip-compressed kernel modules in + <tt>kldload</tt>.</li> + + <li>Backport of the new pmap VM code to &os; 10-STABLE (not + yet sent to upstream).</li> + </ul> + + <p>Most of the introduced changes have been committed to HEAD + and more are on the way.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Juniper Networks Inc. + </sponsor> + + <sponsor> + Semihalf + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Finish upstreaming the hardware watchpoints support.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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