From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 12:48:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60709BE5; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::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 3FDB8A1A; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s34Cm4HY083716; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:48:04 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s34Cm45J083715; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:48:04 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201404041248.s34Cm45J083715@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:48:04 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44439 - 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: 2.1.17 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: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:48:04 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Fri Apr 4 12:48:03 2014 New Revision: 44439 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44439 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report on FreeBSD/arm64 Submitted by: andrew Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Fri Apr 4 12:32:55 2014 (r44438) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Fri Apr 4 12:48:03 2014 (r44439) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 11 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ + arch + + Architectures + + + bin Userland Programs @@ -621,4 +627,54 @@ driver support to libvirt. + + + &os;/arm64 + + + + + Andrew + Turner + + andrew@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Project branch in the Subversion repository + GitHub repository + + + +

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.

+ +

Progress has been good on getting &os; to build and run on the + ARM Foundation model. &os; is able to be built for this + architecture, however it requires a number of external tools + including objdump(1) and ld(1). These tools + are provided by an external copy of binutils until replacements + can be written.

+ +

&os; will run the early boot on the Foundation model. The + loader has been ported to the AArch64 UEFI environment and can + load and run the kernel. The kernel is able to create the + initial page tables to be able to run from virtual memory. It + can then execute C code to parse the memory map provided by the + loader. This is as far as the kernel currently boots.

+ +

This work is now happening in the &os; Subversion repository in + a project branch, see the links.

+ + + + Implement an initial pmap(9) layer. + Write the missing machine-dependent code. + Test on real hardware. + +