From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 18:46:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F871065693 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:46:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (www.scsiguy.com [70.89.174.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B091E8FC1F for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Deb-Goodkins-MacBook-Pro.local (c-71-196-153-166.hsd1.co.comcast.net [71.196.153.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q21IjwnB011161 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 11:45:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from deb@freebsdfoundation.org) Message-ID: <4F4FC3E1.5040700@freebsdfoundation.org> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:45:53 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 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]); Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:46:00 -0700 (MST) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:25:32 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Foundation Announces NAND File System for FreeBSD Project X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:46:02 -0000 The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to bring their comprehensive NAND Flash file system and storage stack to FreeBSD. This technology enables FreeBSD to natively manage NAND Flash devices, satisfying a crucial requirement for many applications needing access to fast, reliable, non-volatile storage. FreeBSD is widely used as the OS foundation of embedded appliances both small and large. Semihalf's NAND Flash stack opens new opportunities for FreeBSD in this space, where size, cost, or performance, mandate the use of direct attached NAND Flash. Made possible by matching funds from Juniper Networks, this FreeBSD Foundation grant covers the costs of transferring technology developed for Juniper Networks by Semihalf to the FreeBSD project. This will ensure that the NAND framework meets community standards and can be easily maintained and enhanced. Highlighting the return on investment offered by this kind of technology transfer, FreeBSD Foundation president Justin T. Gibbs, noted: "Open sourcing enhancements that do not expose 'business critical intellectual property' reduces the cost of managing a FreeBSD distribution that has been customized for a product. The NAND subsystem is a perfect example of how technology transfer benefits both the FreeBSD community and its commercial users. We'd like to thank Semihalf and Juniper for partnering with us to make the code available under a BSD license" The NAND Flash subsystem consists of a driver framework for NAND controllers and memory chips, a NAND device simulator and a fault tolerant, log-structured file system, tailored to meet the unique challenges of NAND flash storage. The package includes all the tools, utilities and documentation needed to deploy this technology in custom applications. "A reliable file system that supports NAND Flash is critical for Juniper's ongoing success," said Marcel Moolenaar, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks. "But since storage isn't Juniper's core business, we were eager to find a solution that would put the implementation and support of the file system in the most capable hands. We reached out to Semihalf and ultimately the Foundation to help us achieve our goals. Juniper cannot be more pleased to have the NAND Flash file system and NAND Flash framework present in the next major FreeBSD version as a standard feature and under the care of the community." "We are very glad to have the NAND framework made available for the general FreeBSD audience, reaffirming the system as a versatile platform for appliances and other embedded and industrial designs," said Rafal Jaworowski of Semihalf. The Foundation is pleased to be working with Semihalf again. They were previously awarded a grant to bring "Flattened Device Tree" support to FreeBSD. This new feature in FreeBSD 9.0 has been well received by the FreeBSD community. From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 10:40:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: announce@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3399106567B for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pawel@dawidek.net) Received: from mail.dawidek.net (60.wheelsystems.com [83.12.187.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B86E8FC17 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (58.wheelsystems.com [83.12.187.58]) by mail.dawidek.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 34F9F506 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:24:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:23:37 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: announce@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20120302102337.GD1313@garage.freebsd.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vni90+aGYgRvsTuO" Content-Disposition: inline X-OS: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:58:11 +0000 Cc: Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Announcing EuroBSDcon 2012 X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:40:07 -0000 --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable EuroBSDcon 2012 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers on BSD-based systems. The EuroBSDcon 2012 conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland from Thursday 18 October 2012 to Sunday 21 October 2012, with tutorials on Thursday and Friday and talks on Saturday and Sunday. Call for Proposals ------------------ The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting developers and users of BSD-based systems to submit innovative and original papers not submitted to other European conferences on BSD-related topics. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational aspects of BSD use. Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes. Call for Tutorial Proposals --------------------------- The EuroBSDcon conference is inviting qualified practitioners in their field to submit proposals for half or full day tutorials on topics relevant to development, implementation and use of BSD-based systems. Submission address ------------------ Proposals should be submitted by email to . Important dates --------------- The EuroBSDcon conference is accepting abstracts and tutorial proposals until 20 May 2012. Other important dates will be announced soon at the conference website http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://tupytaj.pl --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk9Qn6gACgkQForvXbEpPzRuEACg5TGz2ogaSVopZXWWYG9Eg8hj a0kAoKC3ZG1kYV1W5qmqAHrluj8/ELst =vKIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vni90+aGYgRvsTuO--