From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 25 18:33:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@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 C0FCFD9B; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:33:27 +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)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0AC517AA; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s0PIXRMa039774; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:33:27 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s0PIXRTh039772; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:33:27 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201401251833.s0PIXRTh039772@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:33:27 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43642 - 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-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:33:27 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Sat Jan 25 18:33:27 2014 New Revision: 43642 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43642 Log: - Add introduction for the 2013Q4 report - Further minor nits Assisted by: wblock, Allan Jude Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Sat Jan 25 10:27:24 2014 (r43641) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Sat Jan 25 18:33:27 2014 (r43642) @@ -12,12 +12,30 @@ Introduction

This report covers &os;-related projects between October and - December 2013. This is the fourth of four reports planned for + December 2013. This is the last of four reports planned for 2013.

- +

The last quarter of 2013 was very active for the &os; + community, much like the preceding quarters. Many advances were + made in getting &os; to run on ARM-based System-on-Chip boards + like Cubieboard, Rockchip, Snapdragon, S4, Freescale i.MX6 and + Vybrid VF6xx. &os; is also becoming a better platform for Xen + and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. There are plans for &os; + to become a fully supported compute host for OpenStack. The I/O + stack has again received some performance boosts on + multi-processor systems through work touching the CAM and GEOM + subsystems, and through better adaptation of UMA caches to + system memory constraints for ZFS. The &os; Foundation did an + excellent job in this quarter, and many of their sponsored + projects like VT-d and UEFI support, iSCSI stack, Capsicum, and + auditdistd are about to complete. At the same time, new projects + like Automounter and Intel GPU updates have just been launched. + The Newcons project has been merged into -CURRENT, which will + make it possible to finally move to the latest version of X.Org + in the Ports Collection. Efforts are also under way to improve + testing with Jenkins and Kyua. It is an exciting time for users + and developers of &os;!

-

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 37 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

@@ -596,7 +614,7 @@

As part of this project, cam(4) (the ATA/SCSI subsystem) has received more fine-grained locking for better utilization of multi-core systems. In addition, the locking in geom(4) - (the block storage subsystem) has been also polished, and a new + (the block storage subsystem) has also been polished, and a new direct dispatch functionality was implemented to spread the load between multiple threads and processors, and reduce the number of context switches.

@@ -609,7 +627,7 @@ iXsystems, Inc - Some CAM controller drivers (SIMs) could be also optimized + Some CAM controller drivers (SIMs) could also be optimized to get more benefits from this project, utilizing the new locking models and direct command completions from multiple interrupt threads. @@ -921,7 +939,7 @@ The &os; Foundation - Resolve a 32- vs 64-bit libstand(3) build issue. + Resolve a 32- versus 64-bit libstand(3) build issue. Merge kernel parsing of EFI memory map metadata. Integrate the EFI framebuffer with vt(9) (also known as Newcons). @@ -982,7 +1000,7 @@ which GNOME 2 components will be gone or be replaced with their newer GNOME 3 versions. This task is current halted until we can get the documentation into a shape good enough to - gather the issues and document the migration, including how to + gather the issues and document the migration, including how to avoid the migration if the upgrade is not preferred. (This does not mean we do not want to know about issues with upgrading, though). @@ -1361,7 +1379,7 @@ device vt_vga
  • IA64 — untested.
  • MIPS — untested.
  • PPC and PPC64 — Works, but without X.Org yet.
    • -
  • SPARC — works on certain hardware (eg. Ultra 5).
    • +
  • SPARC — works on certain hardware (e.g., Ultra 5).
  • vesa(4) — in progress.
  • i386/amd64 nVidia driver — need testing.
  • Xbox framebuffer driver — need testing.
    • @@ -1371,7 +1389,7 @@ device vt_vga
    • Switching to vty0 from X.Org on Fatal events will not work.
      • -
    • Certain hardware (eg. Lenovo X220) get a black screen when +
    • Certain hardware (e.g., Lenovo X220) get a black screen when i915kms is preloaded.
    • Scrolling can be slow;
    • Screen borders are not cleared when changing fonts.
      • @@ -1524,7 +1542,7 @@ device vt_vga four-month duration. The first two candiates are Mathieu Arnold (mat) and Antoine Brodin (antoine).

      -

      Ongoing maintainence goes into redports.org, including +

      Ongoing maintenance goes into redports.org, including QAT runs, ports and security updates.

      @@ -1667,7 +1685,7 @@ device vt_vga files. There still seem to be some issues surrounding 2 GHz - vs. 5 GHz association attempts leading to firmware + versus 5 GHz association attempts leading to firmware assertions, especially on the Intel 4965 NIC.