From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 16:59:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DC9106566B; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:59:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540CF8FC08; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:59:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A126746BB4; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:59:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:59:51 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Advanced warning: virtualization work will be afoot X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:59:52 -0000 Dear all: This weekend is the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Cambridge, UK, and one of the focuses of the meetings will be the on-going network stack virtualization. We hope to have several days in a row to focus on known issues, understand (and possible address) various concerns about the approach, and possibly expand the focus to further subsystems. We also hope to explore doing some amount of virtualization below the language level, and hopefully have the right set of people there to talk about that. With all this in mind, it may well be that we begin some of the heavy lifting on virtualization in the base Subversion tree, whereas to date this work has occurred almost entirely in Perforce. The outcome of the meetings will depend a lot on what we find and what progress we make, so this isn't exactly a "HEADS UP: Virtualization going into SVN", but it could well be that there is quite a bit of committing going on. Thanks, Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge