Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:43:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45773 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201410102043.s9AKh642089154@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Fri Oct 10 20:43:06 2014 New Revision: 45773 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45773 Log: Add arm64 report. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Fri Oct 10 20:28:22 2014 (r45772) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Fri Oct 10 20:43:06 2014 (r45773) @@ -1487,4 +1487,62 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat="arch"> + <title>FreeBSD/arm64</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Andrew</given> + <common>Turner</common> + </name> + <email>andrew@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/arm64/" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Arm64 is the name of the in-progress port of &os; to the + ARMv8 CPU when it is in AArch64 mode. Until recently, all ARM + CPU designs were 32-bit only. With the introduction of the + ARMv8 architecture, ARM has added a new 64-bit mode. This new + mode has been named AArch64.</p> + + <p>Since the last status report, &os; has started to execute + userland instructions. This includes implementing more of the + needed kernel functions to handle creation of processes. + Using clang to compile userland has found a few issues with + the version in the base system. These issues are expected to + be resolved when clang 3.5 is imported.</p> + + <p>Initial support for device drivers has been added. This + includes the start of the <tt>bus_space</tt> functions and + interrupt handling. This allowed the existing timer and + interrupt controller drivers from armv6 to be used as these + devices are similar. The FDT data is now being passed from + the loader to the kernel using the standard mechanism.</p> + + <p>The pmap implementation has been changed to be based on the + amd64 code. This fixes a number of issues with the old + implementation.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Boot to multi-user mode</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Get dynamic libraries working</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Test on real hardware</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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