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X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:51:17 -0000 FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, July-September, 2012. Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and September 2012. This is the third of the four reports planned for 2012. Highlights from this quarter include successful participation in Google Summer of Code, major work in areas of the source and ports trees, and a Developer Summit attended by over 30 developers. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * FreeBSD on Altera FPGAs * Native iSCSI Target * Parallel rc.d execution FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Bugbusting Team * FreeBSD Foundation * The FreeBSD Core Team Kernel * FreeBSD on ARMv6/ARMv7 Documentation * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project Ports * KDE/FreeBSD * Ports Collection Miscellaneous * FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code * Google Summer of Code 2012 __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Bugbusting Team URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#gnats URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting Contact: Eitan Adler Contact: Gavin Atkinson Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko In August, Eitan Adler (eadler@) and Oleksandr Tymoshenko (gonzo@) joined the Bugmeister team. At the same time, Remko Lodder and Volker Werth stepped down. We extend our thanks to Volker and Remko for their work in the past, and welcome Oleksandr and Eitan. Eitan and Oleksandr have been working hard on migrating from GNATS, and have made significant progress on evaluating new software, and creating scripts to export data from GNATS. The bugbusting team continue work on trying to make the contents of the GNATS PR database cleaner, more accessible and easier for committers to find and resolve PRs, by tagging PRs to indicate the areas involved, and by ensuring that there is sufficient info within each PR to resolve each issue. As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR queue is welcome to join us in #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet. We are always looking for additional help, whether your interests lie in triaging incoming PRs, generating patches to resolve existing problems, or simply helping with the database housekeeping (identifying duplicate PRs, ones that have already been resolved, etc). This is a great way of getting more involved with FreeBSD! Open tasks: 1. Further research into tools suitable to replace GNATS. 2. Get more users involved with triaging PRs as they come in. 3. Assist committers with closing PRs. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/201208DevSummit Contact: Robert Watson In the end of August, there was an "off-season" Developer Summit held in Cambridge, UK at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. This was a three-day event, with a documentation summit scheduled for the day before. The three days of the main event were split into three sessions, with two tracks in each. Some of them even involved ARM developers from the neighborhoods which proven to be productive, and led to further engagement between the FreeBSD community and ARM. The schedule was finalized on the first day, spawning a plethora of topics to discuss, followed by splitting into groups. A short summary from each of the groups was presented in the final session and then published at the event's home page on the FreeBSD wiki. This summit contributed greatly to arriving to a tentative plan for throwing the switch to make clang the default compiler on HEAD. This was further discussed on the mailing list, and has now happened, bringing us one big step closer to a GPL-free FreeBSD 10. As part of the program, an afternoon of short talks from researchers in the Cambridge Computer Laboratory involved either operating systems work in general or FreeBSD in particular. Robert Watson showed off a tablet running FreeBSD on a MIPS-compatible soft-core processor running on an Altera FPGA. In association with the event, a dinner was hosted by St. John's college and co-sponsored by Google and the FreeBSD Foundation. The day after the conference, a trip was organized to Bletchley Park, which was celebrating Turing's centenary in 2012. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Foundation URL: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2012Jul-newsletter.shtml Contact: Deb Goodkin The Foundation hosted and sponsored the Cambridge FreeBSD developer summit in August 2012. We were represented at the following conferences: OSCON July 2012, Texas LinuxFest, and Ohio LinuxFest. We negotiated/supervised Foundation funded projects: Distributed Security Audit Logging, Capsicum Component Framework, Native iSCSI Target Scoping, and Growing UFS Filesystems Online. We negotiated, supervised, and funded hardware needs for FreeBSD co-location centers. We welcomed Kirk McKusick to our board of directors. He took over the responsibility of managing our investments. We visited companies to discuss their FreeBSD use and to help facilitate collaboration with the Project. We managed FreeBSD vendor community mailing list and meetings. We created a high quality FreeBSD 9 brochure to help promote FreeBSD. Published our semi-annual newsletter that highlighted Foundation funded projects, travel grants for developers, conferences sponsored and other ways the Foundation supported the FreeBSD Project. We hired a technical writer to help with FreeBSD marketing/promotional material. We began work on redesigning our website. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD on Altera FPGAs URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/ URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri.html Contact: Brooks Davis Contact: Robert Watson Contact: Bjoern Zeeb In the course of developing the CHERI processor as part of the CTSRD project SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory and the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have developed support for a number of general purpose IP cores for Altera FPGAs including the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet (ATSE) MAC core, the Altera University Program SD Card core, and the Altera JTAG UART. We have also added support for general access to memory mapped devices on the Avalon bus via the avgen bus. We have implemented both nexus and flattened device tree (FDT) attachments for these devices. In addition to these softcore we have developed support for the Terasic multi-touch LCD and are working to provide support for the Terasic HDMI Transmitter Daughter Card. Both of these work with common development and/or reference boards for Altera FPGAs. They do require additional IP cores which we plan to release to the open source community in the near future. With exception of the ATSE and HDMI drivers we have merged all of these changes to FreeBSD-CURRENT. We anticipate that these drivers will be useful for users who with to run FreeBSD on either hard or soft core CPUs on Altera FPGAs. This work has been sponsored by DARPA, AFRL, and Google. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD on ARMv6/ARMv7 Contact: freebsd-arm mailing list Support for ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture has been merged from project branch to HEAD. This code covers the following parts: * General ARMv6/ARMv7 kernel bits (pmap, cache, assembler routines, etc...) * ARM Generic Interrupt Controller driver * Improved thread-local storage for cpus >=ARMv6 * Driver for SMSC LAN95XX and LAN8710A ethernet controllers * Marvell MV78x60 support (multiuser, ARMADA XP kernel config) * TI OMAP4 and AM335x support (multiuser, no GPU or graphics support, kernel configs for Pandaboard and Beaglebone) * LPC32x0 support (multiuser, frame buffer works with SSD1289 LCD controller. Embedded Artists EA3250 kernel config) This work was a result of a joint effort by many people, including but not limited to: Grzegorz Bernacki (gber@), Aleksander Dutkowski, Ben R. Gray (bgray@), Olivier Houchard (cognet@), Rafal Jaworowski (raj@) and Semihalf team, Tim Kientzle (kientzle@), Jakub Wojciech Klama (jceel@), Ian Lepore (ian@), Warner Losh (imp@), Damjan Marion (dmarion@), Lukasz Plachno, Stanislav Sedov (stas@), Mark Tinguely and Andrew Turner (andrew@). Thanks to all, who contributed by submitting code, testing and giving valuable advice. Open tasks: 1. More hardware bring-ups and more drivers 2. Finish SMP support 3. VFP/NEON support __________________________________________________________________ Google Summer of Code 2012 URL: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012 Contact: FreeBSD Summer of Code Administrators Over the Summer of 2012, FreeBSD were once again granted a place to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. We received a total of 32 project proposals, and were ultimately given 15 slots for university students to work on open source projects mentored by existing FreeBSD developers. We were able to accept a wide spread of proposals, covering both the base system and the ports infrastructure. We had students working on file systems, file integrity checking, and parallelization in the ports collection. Students worked on kernel infrastructure, including one project to support CPU resource limits on users, processes and jails, and one student improving the BSD callout(9) and timer facilities. Two students worked on the ARM platform, widely used in embedded systems and smart phones; one student worked on a significant cleanup and improvements to the Flattened Device Tree implementation code, while the other ported FreeBSD to the OMAP3-based BeagleBoard-xM device. One student worked on improving IPv6 support in userland tools, whilst another worked on BIOS emulation for the BHyVE BSD-licensed hypervisor, new in FreeBSD 10. Other students worked on EFI boot support, userland lock profiling and an automated kernel crash reporting system. Overall, a significant proportion of the code produced has or will be integrated into FreeBSD in one form or another. All of the work is available in our Summer Of Code Subversion repository, and some of the work has already been merged back into the main repositories. FreeBSD is once again grateful to Google for being selected to participate in Summer of Code 2012. __________________________________________________________________ KDE/FreeBSD URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org/area51.php Contact: KDE FreeBSD The KDE/FreeBSD team have continued to improve the experience of KDE software and Qt under FreeBSD. The latest round of improvements include: * Fixes for building Qt with libc++ and C++11 * Fixes for Solid-related crashes * Fix battery detection in battery monitor plasmoid The team has also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes and patches. The latest round of releases include: * KDE SC: 4.9.1 (area51) and 4.8.4 (ports) * Qt: 4.8.3 (area51) * PyQt: 4.9.4 (area51); QScintilla 2.6.2 (area51); SIP: 4.13.3 (area51) * Calligra: 2.4.3, 2.5-RC2, 2.5.0. 2.5.1, 2.5.2 (area51) and 2.4.3, 2.5.0, 2.5.1 (ports) * Amarok: 2.6.0 (area51) * CMake: 2.8.9 (ports) * Digikam (and KIPI-plugins): 2.7.0, 2.8.0, 2.9.0 (area51) and 2.7.0, 2.9.0 (ports) * QtCreator: 2.6.0-beta (area51) * many smaller ports The team is always looking for more testers and porters so please contact us at kde@FreeBSD.org and visit our home page at http://FreeBSD.kde.org. Open tasks: 1. Please see 2012 Q4 Status Report 2. Updating out-of-date ports, see PortScout for a list __________________________________________________________________ Native iSCSI Target Contact: Edward Tomasz Napieral/a During the July-September time period, the Native iSCSI Target project was officially started under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. Before the end of September I've written ctld(8), the userspace part of the target, responsible for handling configuration, accepting incoming connections, performing authentication and iSCSI parameter negotiation, and handing off connections to the kernel. For the time being, I've reused some parts of protocol-handling code from the istgt project; since ctld(8) only handles the Login phase, the code can be rewritten in a much simpler and shorter way in the future. __________________________________________________________________ Parallel rc.d execution URL: https://github.com/buganini/rcexecr URL: https://github.com/kil/rcorder Contact: Kuan-Chung Chiu Contact: Kilian There are two implementations to make rc.d execution parallel. Compared to Kil's rcorder, rcexecr brings more concurrence and provides more flexibility than older "early_late_divider" mechanism but require more invasive /etc patch. Both implementations have switch to toggle parallel execution. Further modification/integration needs more discussion. Open tasks: 1. Refine /etc/rc.d/* to eliminate unnecessary waiting. __________________________________________________________________ Ports Collection URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/ URL: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html URL: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html URL: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/ URL: http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/ URL: http://www.facebook.com/portmgr Contact: Thomas Abthorpe Contact: Port Management Team The ports tree approaches 24,000 ports, while the PR count still is above 1000. In Q3 we added 2 new committers and took in two commits bit for safe keeping. The Ports Management team had performed multiple -exp runs, verifying how base system updates may affect the ports tree, as well as providing QA runs for major ports updates. Beat Gaetzi took over the role of sending out fail mails, a role that Pav Lucistnik had previously held. Beat also undertook the task of converting the Ports tree from CVS to Subversion. Florent Thoumie stepped down from his role on portmgr, he was instrumental in maintaining the legacy pkg_* code. Open tasks: 1. Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on testing, committing and closing. __________________________________________________________________ The FreeBSD Core Team Contact: Core Team Along with the change in the Core Team membership, several related roles changed hands. Gabor Pali assumed the role of core secretary from Gavin Atkinson, and David Chisnall replaced Robert Watson as liaison to the FreeBSD Foundation. The Core Team felt there was no longer a need for a formal security team liaison, so that role was retired. In the third quarter, the Core Team granted access for 2 new committers and took 2 commit bits into safekeeping. The Core Team worked with the Port Management Team and Cluster Administrators to set a date to stop providing CVS exports for the ports repository, which is February 28, 2013. In the meantime, the CVS export for 9.1-RELEASE was restored. __________________________________________________________________ The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/ URL: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/ Contact: Hiroki Sato Contact: Ryusuke Suzuki Web page (htdocs): Newsflash and some other updates in the English version were translated to keep them up-to-date. Especially "security incident on FreeBSD infrastructure" was translated and published in a timely manner. FreeBSD Handbook: Big update in the "advanced-networking". With this update, merging translation results from the handbook in the local repository of Japanese documentation project into the main repository was completed. This chapter is still outdated and needs more work. The other sections have also constantly been updated. Especially, new subsection "Using pkgng for Binary Package Management" was added to "ports" section and "Using subversion" subsection was added to "mirrors" section. Article: Some progress was made in "Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports" and "Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports" articles. Open tasks: 1. Further translation work of outdated documents in the ja_JP.eucJP subtree. __________________________________________________________________ From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 4 13:54:38 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E42895F for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from isabell@issyl0.co.uk) Received: from mail-ve0-f179.google.com (mail-ve0-f179.google.com [209.85.128.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8ACB19C7 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f179.google.com with SMTP id da11so4768791veb.10 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:54:37 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:x-originating-ip:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=TAF5gStlzh2lRTRynJnPHC8g/JD6grypvGawb0QOpBE=; b=UeJBBiqz4TykqPCGOcoqNS4occ/YQK3DpGVlYJT/Lkm0KO8IgjjLBfXRPIxA/ycD7O AAMCL29SinrVfD5n7AQBNSs5xfo8qTghopEmllBo9sA3+rSJfiShY/BMyDoQn8nEPVL3 b9NBEcXrrqGr9UCOK+2i46DnmUOVAUeUcedOa09rkonoW7yNWh8UBGP5eFqHIEGVbvAA rjd14KIok/52CXcwJCWcQm2aV8G5e/YykRA5n32uxwnaNUdTkln/iXD+mASLGOObKTUt fIRifQsl2O1VXrCGB2hDx6vxB4mDS+RHb9Jn6fnveI4NotsHR1dDuOLFtNTlXjk7JjcX bWfw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.20.239 with SMTP id q15mr6757883vde.73.1362405276965; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:54:36 -0800 (PST) Sender: isabell@issyl0.co.uk Received: by 10.220.250.138 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 05:54:36 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [2.29.6.249] Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:54:36 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: szs_4FcNX1kaYx1EFmcMvvccz1o Message-ID: From: Isabell Long To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmtbb8qHibOTmirEAZ57omTuIhwCNCK3yQ11KhqLszoO3Vv+RbUPXJxLCq/OPwROaowVVrm X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:19:01 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, October-December 2012. X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:54:38 -0000 FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, October-December 2012. Introduction This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between October and December 2012. This is the last of four reports planned for 2012. Highlights from this status report include a very successful EuroBSDCon 2012 conference and associated FreeBSD Developer Summit, both held in Warsaw, Poland. Other highlights are several projects related to the FreeBSD port to the ARM architecture, extending support for platforms, boards and CPUs, improvements to the performance of the pf(4) firewall, and a new native iSCSI target. Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it. The deadline for submissions covering the period between January and March 2013 is April 21st, 2013. __________________________________________________________________ Projects * BHyVe * Native iSCSI Target * NFS Version 4 * pxe_http -- booting FreeBSD from apache * UEFI * Unprivileged install and image creation Userland Programs * BSD-licenced patch(1) * bsdconfig(8) FreeBSD Team Reports * FreeBSD Core Team * FreeBSD Documentation Engineering * FreeBSD Foundation * Postmaster Kernel * AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting support * Common Flash Interface (CFI) driver improvements * SMP-Friendly pf(4) * Unmapped I/O Documentation * The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project Architectures * Compiler improvements for FreeBSD/ARMv6 * FreeBSD on AARCH64 * FreeBSD on BeagleBone * FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Ports * FreeBSD Haskell Ports * KDE/FreeBSD * Ports Collection * Xfce Miscellaneous * EuroBSDcon 2012 * FreeBSD Developer Summit, Warsaw __________________________________________________________________ AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting support URL: https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AMD_GPU URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~kib/misc/ttm.1.patch Contact: Alexander Kabaev Contact: Jean-S=E9bastien P=E9dron Contact: Konstantin Belousov Jean-S=E9bastien P=E9dron started to port the AMD GPUs driver from Linux= to FreeBSD 10-CURRENT in January 2013. This work is based on a previous effort by Alexander Kabaev. Konstantin Belousov provided the initial port of the TTM memory manager. As of this writing, the driver is building but the tested device fails to attach. Status updates will be posted to the FreeBSD wiki. __________________________________________________________________ BHyVe URL: https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BHyVe URL: http://www.bhyve.org/ Contact: Neel Natu Contact: Peter Grehan BHyVe is a type-2 hypervisor for FreeBSD/amd64 hosts with Intel VT-x and EPT CPU support. The bhyve project branch was merged into CURRENT on Jan 18. Work is progressing on performance, ease of use, AMD SVM support, and being able to run non-FreeBSD operating systems. Open tasks: 1. 1. Booting Linux/*BSD/Windows 2. 2. Moving the codebase to a more modular design consisting of a small base and loadable modules 3. 3. Various hypervisor features such as suspend/resume/live migration/sparse disk support __________________________________________________________________ BSD-licenced patch(1) URL: http://code.google.com/p/bsd-patch/ Contact: Pedro Giffuni Contact: Gabor Kovesdan Contact: Xin Li FreeBSD has been using for a while a very old version of GNU patch that is partially under the GPLv2. The original GNU patch utility is based on an initial implementation by Larry Wall that was not actually copyleft. OpenBSD did many enhancements to an older non-copyleft version of patch, this version was later adopted and further refined by DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD but there was no centralized development of the tool and FreeBSD kept working independently. In less than a week we took the version in DragonFlyBSD and adapted the FreeBSD enhancements to make it behave nearer to the version used natively in FreeBSD. Most of the work was done by Pedro Giffuni, adapting patches from sepotvin@ and ed@, and additional contributions were done by Christoph Mallon, Gabor Kovesdan and Xin Li. As a result of this we now have a new version of patch committed in head/usr.bin/patch that you can try by using WITH_BSD_PATCH in your builds. The new patch(1) doesn't support the FreeBSD-specific -I and -S options which don't seem necessary. In GNU patch -I actually means 'ignore whitespaces' and we now support it too. Open tasks: 1. Testing. A lot more testing. __________________________________________________________________ bsdconfig(8) URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/head/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/ URL: http://freshports.org/sysutils/bsdconfig/ URL: http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/ Contact: Devin Teske bsdconfig(8) is actively being developed in HEAD under the WITH_BSDCONFIG build-requirement. Snapshots are occasionally taken and made available through the ports system to make testing on 9.0-RELEASE or higher easier on the testers. Currently HEAD is far beyond the version 0.7.3 sitting in ports. Upcoming changes will push this to version 0.8 bringing in the necessary frameworks required for in-depth package management and distribution maintenance (read: one step closer to full 1.0 release). __________________________________________________________________ Common Flash Interface (CFI) driver improvements Contact: Brooks Davis The Common Flash Interface provides a common programming interface for a wide range of NOR flash devices commonly found in embedded systems. I have developed a number of improvements to the cfi(4) device when used on Intel StrataFlash parts. Unnecessary erase cycles are now avoided, devices that require single word writes only write changed words, and multi-word writes are supported for Intel and Sharp devices. Additionally the timeout code has been reworked and no longer imposes unneeded latency on operations taking less than 100us. With all of these changes streaming write speed has improved by more than an order of magnitude. Once these changes are reviewed they will be committed to HEAD. This work was sponsored by DARPA and AFRL. __________________________________________________________________ Compiler improvements for FreeBSD/ARMv6 Contact: Andrew Turner FreeBSD/ARM architecture is now supported by the in-tree clang compiler. ARM EABI support is now available for both clang and gcc along with the older and less documented OABI. There are several outstanding issues, once they are fixed EABI will be made default. Open tasks: 1. Test EABI builds 2. Fix exception handling for EABI 3. Test clang builds 4. Get clang to work natively on EABI-based ARM system. Currently it works only as cross-compiler for ARM EABI. __________________________________________________________________ EuroBSDcon 2012 URL: http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/ URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/eurobsdcon Contact: EuroBSDcon Organizers Contact: Gabor Pali The 11th European BSD Conference took place in Warsaw, Poland at the Warsaw University of Technology with a large number of visitors. It started up with two tracks of tutorials, featuring FreeNAS, pfSense, DTrace, PF, development of NetBSD drivers, and an overall introduction to the FreeBSD operating system given by Kirk McKusick. There we also had opening and closing keynotes, supplemented with 22 talks on different topics related to FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeNAS and PC-BSD: BHyVe, configuration management with puppet, improvements in the OpenBSD cryptographic framework, tuning ZFS, server load balancing in DNS, running FreeBSD on embedded systems, e.g MIPS and ARM, and challenges in identity management and authentication. The conference also had a dedicated track presented by the attendees of the FreeBSD developer summit and open to all, where one could learn more about what is happening currently in the Project: results of Google Summer of Code 2012, architectural changes in the FreeBSD documentation tree, ILNP, advancements in package building and development of pkg(8), and a status report on the USB stack. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Core Team Contact: Core Team In the fourth quarter, the Core Team granted access for 7 new committers, and took 1 commit bit in for safekeeping. The Core Team oversaw the response to the security incident in November in cooperation with the security team, port managers, and cluster administrators. For more information on the fallouts and response see the official announcement. As a result, 9.1-RELEASE was delayed until late December and was released with a limited set of binary packages. The Core Team continues to work with developers to rebuild, review, and restore the package building infrastructure along with redports/QAT. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Developer Summit, Warsaw URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201210DevSummit Contact: Gabor Pali We had 53 FreeBSD developers and invited guests attending the FreeBSD Developer Summit organized as part of EuroBSDcon 2012 in Warsaw, Poland at the Warsaw University of Technology. This year EuroBSDcon organizers again offered us their generous support in helping with keeping the event running smooth, helping with registrations, renting the venue, and providing food for keeping attendees satisfied and happy. The Warsaw developer summit spanned over 3 days and had 9 working groups on various topics. We improved last year's layout inherited from the Canadian summits because it has worked well earlier but could use some further refinements. On both the first and second days, we ran the working groups, ranging from the standard matters, discussing issues with the USB stack, the compiler toolchain, the Ports Collection, or the documentation to some experimental ones, e.g. arranging an operating systems course focusing on FreeBSD. In addition to this, similarly to last year, one of the working groups was about gathering vendors to present their ideas and engage in discussion with the developers on their needs from the Project. Finally, on the third day, there were a number of exciting work-in-progress reports given in a dedicated Developer Summit track at the main conference. Photos and slides for the most of the talks are available on the home page of the summit. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Documentation Engineering URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/internal/doceng.html Contact: Glen Barber Contact: Marc Fonvieille Contact: G=E1bor K=F6vesd=E1n Contact: Hiroki Sato The translations/, projects/ and user/ directories of the doc repository have been opened with the announced policies in effect. These branches are now actively used for translations work, editing the upcoming printed version of the Handbook, and some doc infrastructure improvements. The next phase of the infrastructure improvements is in progress. It will migrate to real XML tools (with the exception of Jade) for validation and rendering. At the same time, the DocBook schema will be updated to 4.5. After long discussions, Google Analytics has been enabled on FreeBSD.org webpages but access to statistical data has to be solicited from the Documentation Engineering Team on an individual and one time basis. Since July, we have added two doc committers and one translator. Open tasks: 1. Help the ongoing work on printed edition of the Handbook. 2. Finish the migration to XML tools. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Foundation Contact: Deb Goodkin A strong year-end fundraising campaign led to the raising $770,000 in 2012. Thank you to everyone who made a donation to support FreeBSD! We published our year-end newsletter that highlighted everything we did to support the FreeBSD Project and community during the second half of the year. We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon. We also attended the conference and developer summit. Erwin Lansing organized and chaired the Ports and Package Summit and Vendor Summit at EuroBSDCon 2012. We attended MeetBSD developer summit November 2012. George Neville-Neil organized and the Foundation sponsored the Bay Area Vendor Summit November 2012. We were represented at LISA. Kirk McKusick taught a tutorial and gave a keynote at EuroBSDCon 2012, and Justin Gibbs gave a talk at ZFS Day, October 2012. We talked to DNS server software vendors and participated in discussions on our DNS implementation, specifically with regard to DNSSEC validation, at CENTR Tech September 2012 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and EuroBSDCon. We visited companies to discuss their FreeBSD use and to help facilitate collaboration with the Project. Robert Watson published ACM Queue and Communications of the ACM: A decade of OS access-control extensibility and Kirk McKusick published ACM Queue and Communications of the ACM: Disks from the Perspective of a File System. We negotiated/supervised Foundation funded projects: porting FreeBSD to the Efika ARM platform, Capsicum Component Framework, Native iSCSI Target implementation, and EUFI. We negotiated/supervised/funded hardware needs in FreeBSD co-location centers. Many board members provided support for recovery efforts following the security compromise of FreeBSD.org systems in late 2012. We completed negotiation and provided legal counsel for the new website privacy policy for the FreeBSD Project. We are now an industrial partner in the Cambridge/Imperial/Edinburgh EPSRC REMS project on the Rigorous Engineering of Mainstream Systems. We coordinated the Foundation's discussion of Jira/Java; conclusion, will continue to be supportive of OpenJDK and not restart proprietary JDK support. We implemented a donor management database to help with our fundraising efforts. We also began working on automating the donation process. We started the Faces of FreeBSD Series where we share the story of a Foundation grant recipient periodically. This allows us to spotlight people who received Foundation funding to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. We hired two technical staff members. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Haskell Ports URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Haskell URL: https://github.com/FreeBSD-haskell/FreeBSD-haskell/ Contact: G=E1bor P=C1LI Contact: Ashish SHUKLA We are proud to announce that the FreeBSD Haskell Team has updated the Haskell Platform to 2012.4.0.0, GHC to 7.4.2 as well as updated existing ports to their latest stable versions. All Haskell ports are also updated to use new OPTIONS framework, and now, building with dynamic libraries (DYNAMIC) is on by default. GHC also uses GCC 4.6 and binutils 2.22 from ports. We also added a number of new Haskell ports, and their count in FreeBSD Ports tree is now 368. Open tasks: 1. Test GHC to work with clang/LLVM. 2. Commit pending Haskell ports to the FreeBSD Ports tree. 3. Add more ports to the Ports Collection. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD on AARCH64 URL: https://github.com/zxombie/aarch64-freebsd-sandbox URL: http://www.arm.com/products/tools/models/fast-models/foundation-model.p hp Contact: Andrew Turner Work has started on porting FreeBSD to AARCH64, ARM's new 64-bit architecture, using the ARMv8 Foundation Model software. GCC and binutils have been ported to FreeBSD and work started on kernel initialization, including MMU setup. Open tasks: 1. Get the MMU working 2. Get system register documentation from ARM 3. Port clang AArch64 to FreeBSD 4. Bring the code into a FreeBSD project branch __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD on BeagleBone Contact: Tim Kientzle Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko Contact: Damjan Marion Contact: Brett Wynkoop FreeBSD on BeagleBone is benefiting from the general work on ARM stability being done by many people, and is proving to be a nice testbed for our ARMv7 support. All ongoing work is happening now directly in -CURRENT and we expect it to be in pretty good shape by the time 10.0 ships. The network driver is now pretty stable; the system should be useful as a small network device. Occasional system snapshots are being built and advertised for people to test. Ask on freebsd-arm@ if you'd like to try the newest one. Open tasks: 1. We need someone to finish the USB driver. Ask if you'd like to take this over. 2. MMCSD performance is still rather poor. 3. There's been discussion of how to improve the GPIO configuration and pinmux handling to simplify hardware experimentation. If we had more people to help build drivers, we could start supporting some of the BeagleBone capes. 4. Mostly we just need people to use it and report any issues they encounter. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Contact: Oleksandr Tymoshenko FreeBSD is running on Raspberry Pi and supports the following peripherals: * USB controller * SDHC controller * Network * Framebuffer (HDMI and composite) * GPIO * VCHI interface Videocore tests (OpenGL, video decoding, audio, display access) work with current VCHI driver implementation. Open tasks: 1. Add DMA mode support to USB driver. Some proof-of-concept code is done but more work required to finish it. 2. Re-implement VCHI driver with more FreeBSD-friendly locking. 3. Implement more drivers: SPI, PWM, audio. __________________________________________________________________ Google Summer of Code 2013 URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/summerofcode.html URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-g oogle-summer-of.html URL: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code Contact: FreeBSD Summer of Code Administrators Since 2005 Google has run its yearly Summer of Code program, in which Google awards stipends to students who successfully complete projects with participating Open Source organisations. FreeBSD has participated in GSoC every year since its inception, and with the announcement that Google will once again run the program in 2013 hopes to participate once more. Google have not yet opened the application period for mentoring organisations, but once it does FreeBSD plans to apply. Assuming that we are successful in our application to participate, we will publish a large list of ideas for possible projects shortly after. Students may then apply to do one of those projects, or suggest their own idea for a project. After the application period, FreeBSD will discover how many student slots we have been allocated, at which point successful students will take some time to plan their project, gather required information and discuss their plans with their mentors, before having around 12 weeks to develop their code. In the eight years of FreeBSD's participation in Google Summer of Code, approximately 150 students have successfully complete projects with us, covering a wide spread of areas of both the source and ports trees. Of these, 22 students continued participating with FreeBSD and subsequently became full FreeBSD committers, many later going on to mentor Summer of Code students themselves. Whether FreeBSD has been successful in being selected to be a participating organisation in Google Summer of Code 2013 should be announced in early April. __________________________________________________________________ KDE/FreeBSD URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org/area51.php Contact: KDE FreeBSD The KDE/FreeBSD team have continued to improve the experience of KDE software and Qt under FreeBSD. The latest round of improvements include: * Fix handling of Removable property in solid engine * Fix management of backlight with UPower (requires acpi_video(4)) * Installing spell-checking dictionaries with a dependency of KDE-locale ports The team has also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes and patches. The latest round of releases include: * KDE SC: 4.9.2 (area51) * PyQt: 4.9.5 (area51); SIP: 4.14 (area51) * KDevelop: 4.4.0, 4.4.1 (area51); KDevPlatform: 1.4.0, 1.4.1 (area51) * Calligra: 2.5.3, 2.5.4 (area51) * CMake: 2.8.10.1 * Many smaller ports The team is always looking for more testers and porters so please contact us at kde@FreeBSD.org and visit our home page at http://FreeBSD.kde.org. Open tasks: 1. Updating out-of-date ports, see PortScout for a list __________________________________________________________________ Native iSCSI Target Contact: Edward Tomasz Napieral/a During the October-December time period, the Native iSCSI Target project progressed to the working prototype stage. Most of this time was spent writing kernel-based part, an iSCSI frontend to the CAM Target Layer. The frontend handles iSCSI Full Feature phase after ctld(8) hands off the connection. The istgt-derived code in ctld(8) was rewritten from scratch; now it's much shorter and more readable. The ctladm(8) utility gained iSCSI-specific subcommands to handle tasks such as listing iSCSI sessions or forcing disconnection. The target works correctly with the FreeBSD initiator. __________________________________________________________________ NFS Version 4 Contact: Rick Macklem The NFSv4.1 client, including support for pNFS for the Files Layout only, has now been committed to head/current. Work on NFSv4.1 server support has just been started and will hopefully be ready for head/current this summer. The client side disk caching of delegated files is progressing and the code is under projects/nfsv4-packrats in the subversion repository. Someone is working on server side referrals and, as such, I hope this might make it into 10.0 as well. __________________________________________________________________ Ports Collection URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/ URL: http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/portmgr/index.html URL: http://blogs.FreeBSDish.org/portmgr/ URL: http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/ URL: http://www.facebook.com/portmgr Contact: Thomas Abthorpe Contact: Port Management Team The ports tree crossed the threshold of 24,000 ports, while the PR count still is close to 1600. In Q4 we added five new committers and took in two commit bits for safe keeping. In the tradition of recruiting new portmgr@ at conferences, we added Bernhard Froehlich to our ranks. He is the one responsible for redports.org Pav Lucistnik stepped down from his role on portmgr, he was one of our principles doing -exp runs and well known for sending failmails. In the well publicised compromise, the pointyhat machines were broken into and subsequently taken down, isolated and sanitised. As a pre-emptive move redports/QAT were also taken down. Work is under way to restore the services. Mark Linimon began a from-scratch test install on one of his own spare machines with the purpose of documenting all the missing steps from the portbuild article. While doing so, he further overhauled the codebase to both make it easier to install, and to further refactor it in light of a security review (still ongoing at time of this writing). Once this is complete, the next task will be to reinstall all existing machines from scratch. Open tasks: 1. Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on testing, committing and closing. __________________________________________________________________ Postmaster Contact: David Wolfskill The postmaster team has expanded, with the addition of Florian Smeets (flo@FreeBSD.org). We have implemented a Mailman "handler" to drop duplicate messages when both copies are sent to the same list (under both the "long" (e.g., "freebsd-current") and "short" (e.g., "current") names). We have created several new mailing lists: * freebsd-course: educational course on FreeBSD * freebsd-numerics: Discussions of high quality implementation of libm functions. * freebsd-snapshots: FreeBSD Development Snapshot Announcements * freebsd-tcltk: FreeBSD-specific Tcl/Tk discussions We have also removed old mailing lists: * freebsd-binup * freebsd-www (merged into freebsd-doc) __________________________________________________________________ pxe_http -- booting FreeBSD from apache URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/user/sbruno/pxe_http_head/ Contact: Sean Bruno Currently works with VirtualBox VMs and Apache 2.2 port. Open tasks: 1. Lots and lots of compile warnings exist with clang and gcc. This really needs to be investigated. 2. Better support for other webservers. Currently needs Apache to work. 3. Needs another pass at basic documentation. Current documentation is actually quite good from the original 4. Network stack needs audit. I'm not sure if the HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP code is original or based on something else. __________________________________________________________________ SMP-Friendly pf(4) Contact: Gleb Smirnoff The project is aimed at moving the pf(4) packet filter out of a single mutex, as well as in general improving of the FreeBSD port. The project has reached its main goal. The pf(4) is no longer covered by single mutex and contention on network stack on pf(4) is now very low. The code is production ready. The projects/pf branch had been merged to the head branch and will be available in 10.0-RELEASE. __________________________________________________________________ The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/ URL: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/ Contact: Hiroki Sato Contact: Ryusuke Suzuki The ja_JP.eucJP subtree has constantly been updated since the last status report. In FreeBSD Handbook, translation work of the "users" section has been completed. "linuxemu" and "serialcomms" were updated and subsection "Subversion mirror site" was newly added to "mirrors" section. Open tasks: 1. Further translation work of outdated documents in the ja_JP.eucJP subtree. __________________________________________________________________ UEFI URL: https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/UEFI URL: http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/projects/uefi/ Contact: Benno Rice There is code in the projects/uefi branch that can build a working 64-bit loader for UEFI. This loader can load a kernel and boot to a mountroot prompt on a serial console on a system with <=3D 1GB of RAM. Full multiuser has not yet been tested. Work is progressing towards having a working syscons. The issue preventing boot on systems with > 1GB of RAM has not yet been found. UEFI-compatible boot media can be generated using in-tree tools, however there are issues with detecting the CD filesystem and using it as the load default. The 64-bit UEFI loader can load a 32-bit kernel but currently cannot hand over to it due to a lack of code to switch to 32-bit mode. Further research is required into Secure Boot. __________________________________________________________________ Unmapped I/O URL: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~kib/misc/unmapped.13.patch Contact: Jeff Roberson Contact: Konstantin Belousov A well-known performance problem of FreeBSD on large SMP hardware is the need to invalidate TLB for all CPUs when instantiating and destroying the VMIO buffers. Invalidation is performed by sending inter-processor interrupt broadcast, which disrupts the execution path of each CPU, and induces latency on the request itself. Since most I/O requests processing require creation of the buffers to hold the data in the kernel, TLB invalidation becomes an obstacle for I/O scalability on many-CPU machines. The work done for flushing the TLBs is especially meaningless since most mappings created are not used for anything but copying the data from the usermode to the kernel page cache forth and back. Most architectures have already established facilities to perform such copies using much faster techniques, for instance, the direct map on amd64, or specially reserved per-CPU page frames or TLB entries on other architectures. Jeff Roberson unified the machine-specific parts of the busdma(9), making a common set of low-level functions available on each architecture. This was committed as r246713. The end result is that the new types of the load functions can be added in the single, machine-independent place. In particular, it is easy to modify the drivers to accept the 'unmapped' bio requests, which lists the vm pages for the device dma engine, instead of the virtual address of the kernel buffer. Konstantin Belousov developed the changes for buffer cache which allow the VMIO buffers to not map the referenced pages, and used the feature for UFS. Per-architecture pmap_copy_pages(9) methods were added to facilitate fast copying between user I/O buffers and pages of unmapped buffers. The unmapped buffers create the unmapped bio requests for the drivers, support for which was made possible by Jeff's patch. Tests show that even on a small 4-core machine, the system time for reading files on UFS is reduced by 30%. Open tasks: 1. Test the patch, in particular, on non-x86 architectures. __________________________________________________________________ Unprivileged install and image creation Contact: Brooks Davis In order to make it easier to build releases and embedded system disk images I have been adding infrastructure to allow the install and packaging stages to the FreeBSD build progress to run without root privilege. To this end I have added two options to the toplevel build system: The -DDB_FROM_SRC option allows the install to proceed when the required set of passwd and group entires does not match the host system. The -DNO_ROOT option causes files to be installed as the running user and for metadata such as owner, group, suid bits, and file flags to be logged in a ${DESTDIR}/METALOG file. This work required the import of NetBSD's mtree and the addition of a number of features from NetBSD to install. I have added all FreeBSD features to NetBSD's mtree and imported it as nmtree. Before FreeBSD 10.0 is released I will replace our version. I have also added all required features to install. Changes to makefs were required to parse the contents of the METALOG file. These new features required importing new versions of the pwcache(3) and vis(3) APIs from NetBSD so those portions of libc. In addition to modifying build infrastructure to use the new features of mtree and install. I corrected a number of cases of files being installed by programs other than install or being installed more than once. A few known instances of duplicate directories in the output exist, but the results are usable in some contexts. I plan to MFC these changes as far back as the stable/8 branch to make it possible to build all supported releases without root privilege. This work was sponsored by DARPA and AFRL. Open tasks: 1. Add support for -DNO_ROOT to src/release/Makefile so that releases can be built without root privilege. 2. Create a tool to install partition tables and file system images in disk image files without the use of mdctl, gpart, and dd. __________________________________________________________________ Xfce URL: https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Xfce Contact: A major update has been made to Thunar (file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment). 1.6.x series introduce lots of improvements, most noticeably is tabs support, and the performance has been improved. Open tasks: 1. Try to fix HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) feature in Midori with Vala 0.12.1 (works fine with Vala >=3D 0.14.x) 2. Replace libxfce4gui (deprecated and not maintained by upstream) by libxfce4ui in order to enhance support for Xfce >=3D 4.10. 3. Test core and plugins (panel, Thunar) with GLib >=3D 4.32 (to replac= e deprecated and removed functions introduced since GLib 2.30). 4. Fix gtk-xfce-engine with Gtk+ >=3D 3.6. __________________________________________________________________ From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 5 15:18:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46A7F76 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:18:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deb@freebsd.org) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (ns1.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3D880E for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Deb-Goodkins-MacBook-Pro.local (c-67-173-236-152.hsd1.co.comcast.net [67.173.236.152]) (authenticated bits=0) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r25FIhPN078688 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 08:18:43 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from deb@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <51360CCE.7080001@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:18:38 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130216 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (aslan.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]); Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:18:43 -0700 (MST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:26:02 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Announces UEFI Support Project! X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:18:44 -0000 Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Benno Rice has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to boot FreeBSD in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot environment. The work to be done includes a new version of the loader, kernel modifications to support starting from a UEFI environment and the ability to create install media for pure UEFI systems. "UEFI support is critical for FreeBSD's future on the amd64 platform and I'm really pleased to be able to ensure that FreeBSD gains support for it," said Benno. This project is expected to be completed in March 2013. The FreeBSD Foundation