Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:53:05 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@freebsd.org> To: xmj@chaot.net Cc: dchagin@freebsd.org, allanjudge@freebsd.org, emaste@freebsd.org, wblock@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q2/2015 emulation status report -- draft Message-ID: <20150714085305.GA2408@brick> In-Reply-To: <55A4C168.1060907@FreeBSD.org> References: <55A4C168.1060907@FreeBSD.org>
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On 0714T1059, Johannes Jost Meixner wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi there, > > attached a draft for the emulation Q2/15 report due today. > > Feel free to rephrase, clarify, specify, etc. anything (it's a draft. ;- > ) Looks good! Few minor nits inline. > Likewise.. if you could turn the XML soup I created into something an > xmlparser can parse, that'd be nice. I'm not sure if that's actually that important; the Quarterly Reports' editors will probably do that by themselves. [..] > <!-- Required section. --> > <body> > <!-- Do not worry if you are not a native English speaker. --> > <p>The FreeBSD emulation team has done extensive work on polishing > FreeBSD's Linux emulation layer. After more than a year and a half, > <!-- TODO: dimitry, how long did you work on this? --> > we have been able to merge Dmitry Chagin's changes to the Kernel, VM subsystem, > <!-- XXX: I don't which parts are all concerned here, just put them in please ;-) --> I'd change it to just say "... year and a half, Dmitry Chagin's changes to the Linux binary emulation subsystem were merged into ...". > binary emulation into FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT. Before merging the more > than 115 individual changes into base/head, Ed Maste and Edward Tomasz > Napierala were able to help by reviewing and improving the changes' code > quality.</p> s/changes' // > <p>Work has been started on backporting these changes into FreeBSD > 10-STABLE, with the current 10.2 release cycle in mind. We are hoping to bring > have that backport ready before 10.2-PRERELEASE turns into 10.2-RELEASE.</p> > <p>In that same vein, Allan Jude was able to upload and improve a recent > Differential Revision that will eventually lead to our having both 32bit and > 64bit ports for CentOS 6. Port review activity has been started during the > BSDCan conference's developer summit, and will be continued extensively during the Cambridge Developer Summit.</p> > <p>We are currently expecting to have both Fedora 10, Centos 6 32bit, and CentOS 6 > 64bit compatible frameworks available by Q4/2015.</p> > <p>Call for help: Contributing.</p> > <!-- xmj note: > Someone's previously been working on centos7 ports. I do find them > in the cambrige devsummit '14 notes, but don't currently recall who did that or > where they were stored. Let's get a call for help out, so that volunteers can get > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT running, and bring in/polish the CentOS7 64bit-only port versions/etc. > Likewise for recent Fedora; Vassilis had a port for Fedora 19 or 20 - they're at 22 at the moment, I think. > https://wiki.freebsd.org/201407DevSummit/LinuxEmulation --> > <p>You can contribute to the Emulation team by testing the CentOS 64bit changes > on a 11.0-CURRENT system. Please report any bug you may encounter, or any > oddity, via bugzilla.</p> > <p>For the ambitious: We are currently evaluating a CentOS 7 framework, > in addition to the three already-running solutions mentioned above. > Some work in that direction was done by <!-- name here -->, and > <!-- github url here --> includes a highly experimental ports userland > to get that running. We'd like to clean that up, and bring it in before > Q2/2016.</p> > </body> > <sponsor>Perceivon Hosting Inc.</sponsor> > > <sponsor>ScaleEngine</sponsor> > > <!-- was the review of lemul stuff sponsored by a Foundation grant? --> > <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor> Yes, it was. > <!-- Dmitry, think about putting your employer here ;-) --> > <sponsor>Optional sponsor</sponsor> > > <sponsor>Another one</sponsor> > > <!-- Optional section for listing tasks. --> > <help> > <task>Test 64bit Linux emulation on 11.0-CURRENT</task> > <task>Backport 64bit Linux emulation to 10-STABLE</task> > <task>Review 64bit CentOS 6 ports, and merge changes</task> > <task>Create/heavily update existing 64bit CentOS 7 ports</task> > > <task>If you'd like to get in touch, please do not hesitate to contact > any of the emulation@ team members. Similarly, a mail to emulation@FreeBSD.org > is always welcome.</task> > </help> > </project>
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