Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:42:51 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: My wish list for 6.1 Message-ID: <43A26FFB.9080405@samsco.org>
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Guys, With code freeze for 6.1 about 6 weeks away, I'd like to put out my 'wish list' for it: 1. working kbdmux. We need this for the growing number of systems that assume that USB is the primary keyboard. Current status appears to be that the kbdmux driver breaks very easily. We need this working well enough where it can be enabled by default, and all attached keyboards Just Work. 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, for performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. It should also select the correct one for the target system and make that the default on boot. The easiest way to do this would be to have sysinstall boot an SMP kernel and then look at the hw.ncpu sysctl. The only problem is being able to have sysinstall fall back to booting a UP kernel for itself if the SMP one fails. This can probably be 'faked' by setting one of the SMP-disabling variables in the loader. But in any case, the point is to make the process Just Work for the user, without the user needing to know arcane loader/sysctl knobs. SMP laptops are right around the corner, and we should be ready to support SMP out-of-the-box. 3. Full review and update of the install docs, handbook, FAQ, etc. There are sections that are embarrassingly out of date (one section of the handbook apparently states that we only support a single brand of wifi cards). A co-worker of mine tried to install 6.0 using just the handbook install guide, and discovered that it really doesn't match reality anymore, in both big and small ways. Contact me directly if you would like his list of comments. Thanks! Scott
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