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From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Wed Apr 13 00:50:12 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37D3B0C687; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A671A19BC; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u3D0oB4j013859; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:50:11 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u3D0oBbK013858; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:50:11 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201604130050.u3D0oBbK013858@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: wblock set sender to wblock@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Warren Block Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:50:11 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48603 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees $except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" $" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:50:13 -0000 Author: wblock Date: Wed Apr 13 00:50:11 2016 New Revision: 48603 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48603 Log: General editing, sentence clarity, and addition of tags every other word or so. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 23:28:54 2016 (r48602) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Wed Apr 13 00:50:11 2016 (r48603) @@ -126,14 +126,6 @@ - Warren - Block - - wblock@FreeBSD.org - - - - Federico Caminiti @@ -155,6 +147,14 @@ raycherng@gmail.com + + + + Warren + Block + + wblock@FreeBSD.org + @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ - NFS server + NFS Server @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ - A new option "-manage-gids" was added to the nfsuserd + A new -manage-gids option was added to the nfsuserd daemon. This option tells the NFS server to use the list of groups for a uid on the server and not the list of groups in the NFS RPC request. Use of this option avoids the 16 group @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ - powerpcspe target + <tt>powerpcspe</tt> Target @@ -270,16 +270,16 @@ - Potentially optimizing setjmp/longjmp to not use SPE unless - it's already been enabled. This would save the kernel - switch for processes that don't otherwise use the SPE. This + Potentially optimizing setjmp/longjmp to not use SPE unless + it has already been enabled. This would save the kernel + switch for processes that do not otherwise use the SPE. This is a low priority task which may not be completed. - The Graphics stack on FreeBSD + The Graphics Stack on FreeBSD @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ "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 + a kernel task, one to redesign libdevq. Six students submitted a proposal for those two ideas, that was unexpected! We now need to decide which one we want to mentor and the choice is difficult. @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ - new "FreeBSD Mastery" books + New "FreeBSD Mastery" Books @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ is now available everywhere, in print and ebook. Lucas and Allan Jude have also finished writing "FreeBSD - Mastery: Advanced ZFS." It's in copyedit now, and should be + Mastery: Advanced ZFS." It is in copyedit now, and should be available before May 2016. Check zfsbook.com for details. @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ and current Cavium firmware. Backward compatibility is maintained. - Moved to using pci_host_generic.c as a main driver for the + Moved to using pci_host_generic.c as a main driver for the internal PCIe bridge. Significant rework of PCIe code to support both generic and ThunderX based platforms. @@ -527,13 +527,13 @@ The driver supports all available Ethernet connections (1, - 10, 30 Gbps) and system can can saturate 10 Gbps link (on Tx) + 10, 30 Gbps) and system can saturate 10 Gbps link (on Tx) using 4 CPU cores. Significantly improved overall I/O performance: - Complete rework of copyin/copyout and bzero + Complete rework of copyin/copyout and bzero functionalities @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ - This work is integrated to the FreeBSD HEAD on on-going + This work is integrated to the FreeBSD HEAD on an on-going basis. @@ -602,19 +602,19 @@ - Add support for $_siginfo. + Add support for $_siginfo. - Add support for ELF auxv data via 'info auxv'. + Add support for ELF auxv data via info auxv. - Implement 'info os' commands. + Implement info os commands. - Implement gdbserver for freebsd. + Implement gdbserver for FreeBSD. @@ -641,14 +641,14 @@ hotplug is present at the URL above. Much of the new code lives in the PCI-PCI bridge driver to handle hotplug events and manage the PCI-express slot registers. Additional changes - in the branch include adding new 'rescan' and 'delete' + in the branch include adding new rescan and delete commands to devctl(8) as well as support for rescanning PCI busses. The current implementation has been tested on systems with ExpressCard but could use additional testing, especially on systems with other PCI-express HotPlug features such as - mechanical latches, attention buttons, indicators, etc. + mechanical latches, attention buttons, indicators, and so on. @@ -686,11 +686,11 @@ that the experience of KDE and Qt on FreeBSD is as good as possible. - While the list of updates is shorter compared to the previous + While the list of updates is shorter than that for the previous quarter, the team remained busy and work on KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 continues. - This quarter, Tobias Berner, who has been driving our KDE + Tobias Berner, who has been driving our KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 efforts from the beginning, received a KDE commit bit, and has been putting it to good use by upstreaming FreeBSD across several KDE repositories. Another @@ -723,17 +723,17 @@ landed to the ports tree. - In our experimental area51 repository, work on Qt 5.6.0 is - underway in our experimental repositories. Additionally, at - the time of writing it also contains KDE Frameworks 5.20.0, - Plasma 5.6.1 and KDE Applications 16.03.80. + Work on Qt 5.6.0 is + under way in our experimental repositories. At + the time of writing, it also contains KDE Frameworks 5.20.0, + Plasma 5.6.1, and KDE Applications 16.03.80. Users interested in testing those ports are encouraged to follow the instructions in our website and report their results to our mailing list. Qt5 5.6.0 is in - our "qt-5.6" branch, and Plasma 5 and the rest is in the - "plasma5" branch. + our qt-5.6 branch, and Plasma 5 and the rest is in the + plasma5 branch. @@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ - Process-Shared locks for libthr + Process-Shared Locks for <tt>libthr</tt> @@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ clang/llvm buildbbot now hosted in the FreeBSD cluster at NYI (sbruno, emaste) - resolved UK mirror outtage with Bytemark (gavin, + resolved UK mirror outage with Bytemark (gavin, peter) @@ -955,20 +955,20 @@ Some highlights include: - WITH_FAST_DEPEND was made default in r296668 and + WITH_FAST_DEPEND was made default in r296668 and later made the only option in r297434. The new depend code - avoids a 'make depend' tree walk and generates .depend files + avoids a make depend tree walk and generates .depend files during build as a side-effect of compiling. This is using - the -MF flags of the compiler. This speeds up the build by + the -MF flags of the compiler. This speeds up the build by 15-35%. PR 196193: - WITHOUT_CROSS_COMPILER was fixed to properly use - --sysroot which allows the option to work in more + WITHOUT_CROSS_COMPILER was fixed to properly use + --sysroot which allows the option to work in more cases. It is still unsafe when major compiler upgrades occur. Further work is planned to improve that still. - WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN now properly builds. + WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN now properly builds. @@ -983,22 +983,22 @@ - Skipping the 'make obj' tree walk. + Skipping the make obj tree walk. - Enabling WITH_META_MODE in buildworld to provide a - reliable incremental build using filemon(4) and bmake's - .MAKE.MODE=meta. This should not be confused with - WITH_DIRDEPS_BUILD which previously was named - WITH_META_MODE and is a drastically different build + Enabling WITH_META_MODE in buildworld to provide a + reliable incremental build using filemon(4) and bmake's + .MAKE.MODE=meta. This should not be confused with + WITH_DIRDEPS_BUILD which previously was named + WITH_META_MODE and is a drastically different build system presented at BSDCan 2014 by Simon Gerraty. - Filemon performance/stability improvements + Filemon Performance/Stability Improvements @@ -1022,25 +1022,25 @@ Filemon is a kernel module for tracing which files a command - creates, reads, writes or executes. It allows tracking build - dependencies in combination with bmake's meta mode. Bmake - will store filemon's output in a .meta file along with the - build command and later use this to check if any of the files - references are missing or modified, or if the build command - changes, to trigger a rebuild of the target. It provides the - same functionality as compiler -MF flags but for everything. - It will be critical for buildworld's WITH_META_MODE + creates, reads, writes, or executes. It allows tracking build + dependencies in combination with bmake's meta mode. bmake + stores filemon's output in a .meta file along with the + build command and later uses this to trigger a rebuild of the target if any of the files + referenced are missing or modified or if the build command + changes. It provides the + same functionality as compiler -MF flags but for everything. + It will be critical for buildworld's WITH_META_MODE (which is the normal buildworld but just using filemon) to provide a reliable incremental build without even the need of - .depend files or compiler -MF flags. This will allow - -DNO_CLEAN to work all of the time. + .depend files or compiler -MF flags. This allows + -DNO_CLEAN to work all of the time. - Over this quarter filemon on head was improved for stability - and performance. It no longer causes every syscall it hooks + Filemon on -HEAD was improved for stability + and performance over this quarter. It no longer causes every syscall it hooks into to loop on processes looking for a matching filemon struct. It now just attaches directly to the struct proc with its own pointer. This improves performance by reducing lock - contention during a build using it. Much other work went into + contention during a build. Much other work went into improving error handling and other stability issues in the module as well. @@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ - AmigaOne X5000 support + AmigaOne X5000 Support @@ -1098,12 +1098,12 @@ peripherals. Currently most code is checked in to enable basic support: - dTSEC (ethernet), core support (e500mc, e5500). Additionally, - as part of this, rman, the kernel resource manager, was - enhanced to use uintmax_t for resources. This allows devices + dTSEC (ethernet), core support (e500mc, e5500). + As part of this, rman, the kernel resource manager, was + enhanced to use uintmax_t for resources. This allows devices to be physically above the 4GB boundary on 32-bit systems. With a statically compiled device tree, it boots to multiuser - mode, with nfsroot, and can be used as normal (serial and ssh + mode with nfsroot, and can be used as normal (serial and SSH logins once configured). @@ -1113,48 +1113,48 @@ - eSDHC driver. Work has been started on this, hijacking the - imx_sdhc.c from Ian Lepore, but there are still bugs: + eSDHC driver: Work has been started on this, hijacking the + imx_sdhc.c from Ian Lepore, but there are still bugs: missing DMA from the iMX driver, and odd timeouts after the system starts up. - SATA support. There is a WIP driver for the SATA - controller, but it's currently very slow, about 11MB/s on a + SATA support: There is a WIP driver for the SATA + controller, but it is currently very slow, about 11MB/s on a SATA 2 link. It currently relies on a 10ms delay on every - SATA transaction, in order for it to be even somewhat + SATA transaction for it to be even somewhat stable. Without this delay, the disk scan never works and I - haven't yet figured out why. + have not yet figured out why. - Local console (VGA) support. It currently boots with a - serial console. vgapci0 is seen if there's a PCIe graphics - card, but vt(4) doesn't attach to it yet. + Local console (VGA) support: It currently boots with a + serial console. vgapci0 is seen if there is a PCIe graphics + card, but vt(4) does not attach to it yet. - 64-bit support. The CPU on the board is a P5020, a 64-bit + 64-bit support: The CPU on the board is a P5020, a 64-bit e5500 dual-core SoC. Currently, booke support in FreeBSD is 32-bit only. - SMP. SMP support on Book-E hardware is currently + SMP: SMP support on Book-E hardware is currently broken. - U-boot support. Currently this uses a compiled-in device - tree, but it would be preferred for it to use the device + U-boot support: Currently this uses a compiled-in device + tree, but it would be preferable to use the device tree provided by u-boot, or at least the Linux-compatible device tree. More work is needed on the DPAA front (Datapath - Acceleration Architecture) to improve the ethernet driver, + Acceleration Architecture) to improve the Ethernet driver and utilize the SEC engine for crypto, random(4), and IPSec. @@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ - Bj??rn + Björn Heidotting bhd@FreeBSD.org @@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ documentation (handbook, articles, website, etc.) into the German language. - Due to the tireless effort of Bj??rn Heidotting, we made huge + Due to the tireless effort of Björn Heidotting, we made huge improvements in catching up with the translation of the German handbook. Benedict helped with reviewing the changes using FreeBSD's review system Phabricator, which helped a lot. We @@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ ways to translate like the PO/gettext-based system. We are always looking for volunteers who are interested in translating small sections or even entire documents. The - process is relatively easy and contributors don't have to know + process is relatively easy and contributors do not have to know much to get started. The members of the FreeBSD German Documentation Team are also willing to mentor people who are interested in helping out. @@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ - ELF Tool Chain tools + ELF Tool Chain Tools @@ -1319,8 +1319,8 @@ Mellanox is working on a big infiniband update towards Mellanox OFED v3.2 of the infiniband stack in &os;. The - updates include both userland and kernel. If you are using - infiniband with &os;, patches are available in the link above + updates include both userland and kernel. + Infiniband patches for &os; are available in the link above which can be downloaded and applied to a recent &os;-head checkout. @@ -1440,11 +1440,11 @@ distinguished, fixing a potential issue. Instead of finding an available IDT vector by hacking, - we're changing to use the normal method, i.e., - lapic_ipi_alloc(). + we are changing to use the normal method, that is, + lapic_ipi_alloc(). - We're modularizing the Hyper-V modules: 1) they will be - loaded in the loader; 2) we're going to enhance devd(8) to + We are modularizing the Hyper-V modules: 1) they will be + loaded in the loader; 2) we are going to enhance devd(8) to improve the hot plug case. @@ -1463,11 +1463,11 @@ Fixed TSC calibration issue (PR 208238 - [Hyper-V] TSC frequency is not correctly detected: "calcru: runtime went - backwards") and we won't see the "runtime went backwards" - messages anymore! + backwards") and we will not see the "runtime went backwards" + messages any more! Fixed the "very slow terminal" issue of 11-CURRENT by - enabling text mode when we're running on hypervisors. + enabling text mode when we are running on hypervisors. Fixed the "unknown dhcp option value 0xf5" issue in dhclient(8) by asking dhclient(8) to @@ -1490,8 +1490,6 @@ We published BIS test cases for Hyper-V on github: https://github.com/FreeBSDonHyper-V/Test-BIS and we are going to publish the test cases for Azure soon. - - This project is sponsored by Microsoft. @@ -1528,7 +1526,7 @@ - As of the end of Q1 the ports tree holds a bit more + As of the end of Q1, the ports tree holds a bit more than 25,000 ports, and the PR count is below 1,900. The activity on the ports tree remains steady, with almost 7,000 commits performed by around 120 active committers. @@ -1539,17 +1537,17 @@ Indeed, almost 2,400 reports were fixed, which allows us to go below the threshold value of 2,000 open PRs. - In Q1 3 commit bits were taken in for safekeeping, + In Q1, three commit bits were taken in for safekeeping, following an inactivity period of more than 18 months (milki, brian), or on committer's request (mmoll). We had one returning committer (fluffy) who had his commit bit reinstated. Two new developers were granted a ports commit bit - (Olivier Cochard-Labbe, Christoph Moench-Tegeder). + (Olivier Cochard-Labbe and Christoph Moench-Tegeder). - On the management side, we had the pleasure to welcome back - miwi to the portmgr team. + On the management side, we had the pleasure to welcome miwi + back to the portmgr team. - On QA side 39 exp-runs were performed to validate sensitive + On the QA side, 39 exp-runs were performed to validate sensitive updates or cleanups. The most noticeable change might be the removal of the now unneeded ${PORTSDIR} when specifying dependencies in Makefiles (see the @@ -1651,7 +1649,7 @@ by default for wider testing). Stack gap, W^X, shared page randomization, KASLR and other - techniques are explicitely out of scope of this work. + techniques are explicitly out of scope of this work. The paxtest results for the run with the previous version 5 of the patch applied and aggresively tuned can be seen at the @@ -1689,7 +1687,7 @@ - RCTL disk IO Limits + RCTL Disk IO Limits @@ -1759,7 +1757,7 @@ - Qt 5.6 is a great framework to build embedded GUI application + Qt 5.6 is a great framework to build embedded GUI applications, so when Qt 5.6 was released it was natural to bring it up on Raspberry Pi. Current Qt support in ports is very Xorg-centric so as a proof of concept I created an @@ -1781,7 +1779,7 @@ - FDT overlay support in ubldr + FDT Overlay Support in UBLDR @@ -1804,7 +1802,7 @@ and the kernel instantiates and attaches drivers according to the information in the blob. - This approach does not work if hardware is expansible. For + This approach does not work when hardware is expandable. For example, the Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black have the concept of capes or shields: snap-on PCBs that are connected to IO headers on the main board and provide additional @@ -1815,8 +1813,8 @@ The proposed patch add this functionality to ubldr. The user can specify a comma-separated list of overlays as U-Boot or - the loader fdt_overlays variable and ubldr will load them from - /boot/dtb/ directory and do the overlaying. + the loader fdt_overlays variable and ubldr will load them from + the /boot/dtb/ directory and do the overlaying. @@ -1853,7 +1851,7 @@ Another feature that the new stack will have is support for sending SD commands from the userland applications using - cam(3). This will allow to build device drivers in + cam(3). This will allow building device drivers in userland and make debugging much easier. The first version of the code was uploaded to Phabricator for @@ -1861,9 +1859,9 @@ bring it to an operational state so it is possible to read and write to the card. - Support for the imx_sdhci SD Host Controller (used on + Support for the imx_sdhci SD Host Controller (used on iMX-based boards, for example Wandboard) was added in 2016Q1, - along with ti_sdhci, which is used on the BeagleBone Black. + along with ti_sdhci, which is used on the BeagleBone Black. Modifying other SDHCI-compliant drivers should not be difficult.