Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:04:52 +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: r49973 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201702112004.v1BK4qTq046050@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Feb 11 20:04:52 2017 New Revision: 49973 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49973 Log: Finish second editing pass over the 2016Q4 report Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Sat Feb 11 19:49:07 2017 (r49972) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Sat Feb 11 20:04:52 2017 (r49973) @@ -1155,8 +1155,8 @@ <body> <p>Good progress on graphics support was made during the weeks - around Christmas and the new year with the import of Linux's - 4.9 DRM for <tt>i915</tt> and <tt>amdgpu</tt> into the + around Christmas and the new year with the import of Linux + 4.9's DRM for <tt>i915</tt> and <tt>amdgpu</tt> into the drm-next branch of the github repository. The <tt>amdgpu</tt> KMS driver is already somewhat usable, with a few major known issues remaining. It now supports GPUs as far back as @@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ <p>LLD developers made significant progress over the last quarter. With changes committed to both LLD and &os; we reached a major milestone: it is now possible to link the - entire &os;/amd64 base system (kernel and userland world) + entire &os;/amd64 base system (kernel and userland) with LLD.</p> <p>Now that the base system links with LLD, we have started @@ -1291,7 +1291,9 @@ ports collection with LLD on amd64.</p> </body> - <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> + <sponsor> + The &os; Foundation + </sponsor> <help> <task>Fix <tt>libtool</tt> to detect LLD and pass the same @@ -1339,7 +1341,7 @@ practices which create a verifiable path from human readable source code to the binary code used by computers. A build is reproducible if given the same source code, build environment - and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit + and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-for-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts.</p> <p>Baptiste Daroussin and Ed Maste attended the second @@ -1354,14 +1356,18 @@ although it currently requires a few non-default settings.</p> <p>Approximately 80% of the ports tree builds reproducibly, - with a few work in progress patches. Now that the base system - can be built reproducibly, focus will move to the ports + with a few work-in-progress patches. Now that the base system + can be built reproducibly, focus will move on to the ports tree.</p> </body> - <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> - - <sponsor>The Linux Foundation</sponsor> + <sponsor> + The &os; Foundation + </sponsor> + + <sponsor> + The Linux Foundation + </sponsor> <help> <task>Integrate &os; ports builds into the @@ -1412,8 +1418,8 @@ <body> <p>Long awaited, the update to GCC 4.9 as the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection (<tt>lang/gcc</tt> port, - <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, up from GCC - 4.8. This brings quite a number of improvements, see + <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, an update from GCC + 4.8. This brings quite a number of improvements; see <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html">https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html</a>; for details.</p> @@ -1452,7 +1458,7 @@ <links> <url href="http://www.mono-project.com/">Mono Homepage</url> - <url href="https://github.com/dotnet/core">Dotnet Core Homepage</url> + <url href="https://github.com/dotnet/core">.NET Core Homepage</url> <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Mono">Mono Project Page</url> </links> @@ -1461,15 +1467,11 @@ have been updated:</p> <ul> - <li> - Mono: 4.6.2.7 - </li> - <li> - MonoDevelop: 6.1.1.15, 6.1.2.44 - </li> - <li> - FSharp: 4.0.1.20 - </li> + <li>Mono: 4.6.2.7</li> + + <li>MonoDevelop: 6.1.1.15, 6.1.2.44</li> + + <li>FSharp: 4.0.1.20</li> </ul> <p><tt>USES=mono</tt> has been extended to allow for easier use @@ -1477,7 +1479,7 @@ FSharp, MonoDevelop and OpenRA.</p> <p>Work has started on porting Microsoft's open-sourced - Dotnet Core. Thanks to the work of another team, the native + .NET Core. Thanks to the work of another team, the native components of <tt>coreclr</tt> and <tt>corefx</tt> already support &os;, however, there is further work required in bootstrapping the build process and compiling the managed @@ -1485,7 +1487,7 @@ </body> <help> - <task>Port Dotnet Core.</task> + <task>Port .NET Core.</task> <task>Test patches for Mono.</task> </help> @@ -1517,7 +1519,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>Support for accessing floating-point registers has been + <p>Support for accessing floating-point registers from the kernel has been added. This uses the same KPI as i386 and amd64. This will allow for handling places where the floating-point state may be modified, for example when calling into UEFI.</p> @@ -1542,9 +1544,13 @@ these are attached via an as-yet unsupported SDIO bus.</p> </body> - <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor> - - <sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor> + <sponsor> + The FreeBSD Foundation + </sponsor> + + <sponsor> + ABT Systems Ltd + </sponsor> </project> <project cat='team'> @@ -1775,7 +1781,7 @@ quarter:</p> <ul> - <li>Ohio LinuxFest October, Columbus, Ohio</li> + <li>Ohio LinuxFest, October, Columbus, Ohio</li> <li>Grace Hopper 2016, October, Houston, TX</li> @@ -1784,9 +1790,9 @@ <li>Bay Area &os; Vendor and Devoloper's Summit and MeetBSD 2016, November, Berkely, CA</li> - <li>USENIX LISA '16, December 2016, Boston, MA</li> + <li>USENIX LISA '16, December, Boston, MA</li> - <li>OSC 2016, December 2016, Beijing, China</li> + <li>OSC 2016, December, Beijing, China</li> </ul> <p>Get the whole list of conferences we supported in 2016 at:
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