Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45803 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201410122133.s9CLXmXK090555@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Sun Oct 12 21:33:48 2014 New Revision: 45803 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45803 Log: Whitespace-only fixes, translators please ignore. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 (r45802) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:33:48 2014 (r45803) @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ <p>The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for the &os; project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in - &os; 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to improve - the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, - performance improvements feature in several places in this - report and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking to - validate our results.</p> + &os; 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to + improve the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As + usual, performance improvements feature in several places in + this report and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking + to validate our results.</p> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 0 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> @@ -160,9 +160,8 @@ <body> - <p> - Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator stack - released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun + <p>Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator + stack released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun developing an offload interface to take advantage of the hardware offload capabilities of Chelsio T4 and T5 10 and 40 gigabit Ethernet adapters.</p> @@ -256,9 +255,9 @@ <p>The Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next - stable release (no date scheduled). There were no major updates - in the ports tree except for cosmetic changes this quarter.</p> - + stable release (no date scheduled). There were no major + updates in the ports tree except for cosmetic changes this + quarter.</p> <p>Major upcoming changes include:</p> @@ -372,21 +371,22 @@ about ZFS than proper documentation.</p> <p>After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added - to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the - basics of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. - Advanced features like compression, - deduplication, and delegation are covered. The chapter also contains a - glossary of terms, explaining a number of the concepts unique - to ZFS, and documents some of - the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can be used for tuning.</p> - - <p>The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which aims to help - users address the most common questions or problems they might - face with ZFS. We would like to hear experiences, - questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and - suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. A use cases - section that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides - advantages over traditional file systems is also planned.</p> + to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the basics + of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. Advanced + features like compression, deduplication, and delegation are + covered. The chapter also contains a glossary of terms, + explaining a number of the concepts unique to ZFS, and + documents some of the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can + be used for tuning.</p> + + <p>The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which + aims to help users address the most common questions or + problems they might face with ZFS. We would like to hear + experiences, questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling + blocks and suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. + A use cases section that highlights some of the cases where + ZFS provides advantages over traditional file systems is also + planned.</p> <p>Please send suggestions to the docs mailing list.</p> </body> @@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ <p>Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state to be set to 1.</p> - <p>A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the thread - sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel + <p>A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the + thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel programs.</p> </body> </project> @@ -633,13 +633,14 @@ USERS. Network configuration, ZFS options, and others are also included.</p> - <p>The Second part of the project is about booting the <tt>fai</tt> (Fully - Automatic Installer) from the network by PXE. An installer - distro was created based on mfsBSD. After boot, <tt>fai</tt> looks for the - "bootfile-name" parameter from the DHCP server. This - parameter tells <tt>fai</tt> where the <tt>bsdinstall</tt> script is - located. <tt>fai</tt> supports MAC-based configuration, or a default if a - MAC-based configuration file does not exist.</p> + <p>The Second part of the project is about booting the + <tt>fai</tt> (Fully Automatic Installer) from the network by + PXE. An installer distro was created based on mfsBSD. After + boot, <tt>fai</tt> looks for the "bootfile-name" parameter + from the DHCP server. This parameter tells <tt>fai</tt> where + the <tt>bsdinstall</tt> script is located. <tt>fai</tt> + supports MAC-based configuration, or a default if a MAC-based + configuration file does not exist.</p> </body> <sponsor> @@ -650,9 +651,11 @@ <task> <p>Documentation, including a HOWTO and handbook</p> </task> + <task> <p>More tests in different configurations</p> </task> + <task> <p>Support for more than one network interface is planned</p> </task> @@ -686,8 +689,8 @@ <p>MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.</p> - <p>Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, - has been updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin. + <p>Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, has been + updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin. We are currently doing test builds to find ports broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of incompatible updates.</p> @@ -727,8 +730,8 @@ <body> <p>The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the - <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> knob) was enabled on all architectures. The - only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or + <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> knob) was enabled on all architectures. + The only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or 9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and therefore <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> will not work (the last UMS-aware version does not work with xserver 1.12). Users can @@ -1830,6 +1833,7 @@ </task> </help> </project> + <project cat='kern'> <title>Intel GPU Driver Update</title> @@ -1848,16 +1852,14 @@ </links> <body> - <p> - The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver + <p>The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver (i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been made available to test for regressions against current - functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new functions. - The GEM I/O ioctl code path - has been modified to more closely resemble the Linux code - structure (easing future imports). - </p> + functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new + functions. The GEM I/O ioctl code path has been modified to + more closely resemble the Linux code structure (easing future + imports).</p> </body> <sponsor> @@ -1868,6 +1870,7 @@ <task> Fix any bugs reported against the latest versions of the patch. </task> + <task> Make Haswell graphics work with Mesa. </task>
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