From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 15:58:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A08837B401 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7417043FE0 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3GMwEwk057677 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3GMwEVV001121 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3GMwEPg001120 for freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:58:14 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030416225814.GB985@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Subject: 5.1 action items X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:58:15 -0000 Gang, With 5.1-BETA scheduled to be available in 2 weeks, it's probably a good idea to see what we really feel needs to be fixed. I came up with the following list of items (from the top of my head -- roughly in order of priority): 1. Fix the installer to create a GPT instead of an MBR. This solves most of the post-install problems people are having and makes FreeBSD play nice if other OSes already exist. 2. Fix the loader to not hardcode fs0, so that we can install from CD when an AFI partition already exists. Arun has some patches for this already. 3. Finish the EPC syscall implementation and related overhaul. This is a biggy and may not be finished in time, but we really need it if we want to have threading (our current setjmp/longjmp based context switching does not work for the 1:1 and M:N threading implementations. Also, it's a big ABI breaker, so I'd rather have it behind us... 4. Validate the new XFree86-4.3.0 port. Porting the X server would be nice (I already started this, but higher priority work preempted the effort). 5. Fix SMP on the HP boxes. Other random bits and pieces that are a PITA: o Fix the bloody USB on the freakin' BigSur o Port gdb(1) Feedback is appreciated. Anybody willing to attack the first 2 items, should not hesitate giving it a shot (just let everybody know so that we don't have people doing the same thing). -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net