Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:41:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49560 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201610240241.u9O2frFq091559@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Oct 24 02:41:53 2016 New Revision: 49560 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49560 Log: Add arm64 entry from andrew Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Mon Oct 24 02:01:00 2016 (r49559) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Mon Oct 24 02:41:53 2016 (r49560) @@ -1107,4 +1107,70 @@ <tt>evdev</tt>-dependent ports.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='arch'> + <title>&os;/arm64</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Andrew</given> + <common>Turner</common> + </name> + <email>andrew@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Jared</given> + <common>McNeill</common> + </name> + <email>jmcneill@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/arm64">&os; arm64 Wiki Entry</url> + <url href="https://github.com/wca/crochet/tree/add-pine64-support">Using Crochet to Build &os; Images</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Transparent superpage support has been added. This will allow + &os; to create 2MiB blocks with a single pagetable and TLB entry. + This has shown a small but significant improvement in the + buildworld time on ThunderX machines. Superpages have been + enabled in head with and merged to stable/11, but they are + disabled by default on stable/11 due to a lack of testing + there.</p> + + <p>Support for the pre-INTRNG interrupt framework has been + removed. This means that arm64 requires INTRNG to even build. + This has allowed various cleanups within the arm64 drivers that + interact with the interrupt controller.</p> + + <p>The cortex Strings library from Linaro has been imported. The + parts of this that have been shown to be improvements over the + previous C code were attached to the libc build.</p> + + <p>There is ongoing work to add ACPI support to the kernel. On + ThunderX, &os; can get to the mountroot prompt, however, due to + incomplete ACPI tables the external PCIe support needed to support + the netboot setup in the test cluster is not functional.</p> + + <p>Pine64 support has been committed to head. &os; can now boot + to multiuser with SMP enabled. This includes support for clocks, + the secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs, non-maskable + interrupts, the AXP81x power management unit, cpu freqency and + voltage scaling, MMC, UART, gigabit networking, the watchdog, and + the thermal sensors.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + The FreeBSD Foundation + </sponsor> + + <sponsor> + ABT Systems Ltd + </sponsor> + </project> </report>
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