Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:04:51 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DTrace for FreeBSD - status Message-ID: <20080124020451.C7D924500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:50:33 GMT." <20080123235033.GA3126@what-creek.com>
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--==_Exmh_1201140291_84737P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:50:33 +0000 > From: John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:05:23 -0600, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> > wrote: > > What is the status of Dtrace in FreeBSD? I thought the original port > > was permantly stalled due to licensing conflicts over CDDL, and > > that John was starting from scratch. > > Cisco is currently funding the port of DTrace to FreeBSD part of their > move to FreeBSD. > > I am probably a week away from putting up a set of diffs for the > initial integration into CURRENT. See: > <http://people.freebsd.org/~jb/reasons/reasons.html>; for the list > of changes/reasons. That page is still a work in progress. > > As of today, the port passes 752 of Sun's DTrace tests. > > FreeBSD developers with p4 access can build //depot/projects/dtrace/src > and get an up-to-date CURRENT with DTrace built in. "make universe" > works for all arches. The kernel modules are limited to amd64 and i386 > at the moment. John, Thanks you and Cisco very much for this work. It should be incredibly valuable to a large number of FreeBSD users as well as the FreeBSD development community. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1201140291_84737P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHl/JDkn3rs5h7N1ERApZOAKC0BZ8EceNl6VQSaaMw3L/GNLoD6QCeK7Ab nI9x1ON03Z/5bGrn/vMU65c= =3D9T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1201140291_84737P--
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