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Date:      Sat, 31 May 2003 17:57:26 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <3ED94166.7070300@btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030531142459.A90361@xorpc.icir.org>
References:  <200305311300.h4VD0GUE084477@fledge.watson.org> <20030531142459.A90361@xorpc.icir.org>

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:00:16AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
>>This is an automated bi-daily mailing of the FreeBSD 5.1 open issues list.
>>The live version of this list is available at:
>>
>>    http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/5.1R/todo.html
>>
>>Automated mailing of this list will continue through the release of
>>FreeBSD 5.1.
>>
>>
>>                            FreeBSD 5.1 Open Issues
>>
>>                                  Open Issues
>>
>>   This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD 5.1. If
>>   you have any updates for this list, please e-mail re@FreeBSD.org.
>>
>>  Must Resolve Issues for 5.1-RELEASE
>>
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>   |      Issue       |   Status    | Responsible |       Description       |
>>   |------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------------|
>>   |                  |             |             | There are reports of    |
>>   | ipfw/ipfw2       |             |             | alignment problems with |
>>   | alignment issues | In progress | Luigi Rizzo | ipfw and/or ipfw2 on    |
>>   | on alpha/sparc64 |             |             | 64-bit platforms        |
>>   |                  |             |             | (specifically alpha and |
>>   |                  |             |             | sparc64).               |
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> 
> i posted patches and a detailed description for this item
> 3 weeks ago to re@ and then the same was forwarded a couple of weeks
> ago to the relevant lists (ipfw, sparc64, alpha) and got no 
> useful feedback (in detail, two message: one 'cannot apply the patch',
> the other one 'it dumps core' without further details).
> 
> As i do not have access to these platforms, all i can do is provide
> code and make sure that it compiles (which i did, using a cross-build),
> but for running it (part of the problem involves the kernel) i need
> someone with root&console access to test them.
> 
> I would interpret the absence of feedback as a "nobody cares enough"
> (which is perfectly fine given that these platforms are a negligible
> fraction of the installed base, there are more important issues to
> address and these particular ones should have a relatively trivial
> fix).
> 
> 	cheers
> 	luigi
> 

Luigi,

It's been a matter of not having enough time, nothing more.  I *will*
address this one way or another before the release.  I apologize for
taking so long.

Scott


> 
>>  Desired Features for 5.1-RELEASE
>>
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>   |    Issue     |    Status     |    Responsible     |    Description     |
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>  Documentation items that must be resolved for 5.1
>>
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>   |    Issue     |    Status     |    Responsible     |    Description     |
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>  Areas requiring immediate testing
>>
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>   |       Issue       | Status |  Responsible  |        Description        |
>>   |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>>   |                   |        |               | The 20030228 vendor       |
>>   | Fresh ACPI-CA     | --     | --            | sources have been         |
>>   | import            |        |               | imported. Further testing |
>>   |                   |        |               | is appreciated.           |
>>   |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>>   |                   |        |               | PAE support allows the    |
>>   |                   |        |               | use of up to 64GB of RAM  |
>>   | PAE support for   | --     | --            | on Pentium Pro and above  |
>>   | i386              |        |               | systems. Virtual          |
>>   |                   |        |               | addresses are still       |
>>   |                   |        |               | constrained to 32-bits.   |
>>   |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>>   |                   |        |               | The recently upgraded     |
>>   |                   |        |               | if_wi driver is more      |
>>   |                   |        |               | tuned to Prism hardware   |
>>   |                   |        |               | than to Lucent hardware,  |
>>   | if_wi problems on |        |               | resulting in system       |
>>   | Lucent hardware   | --     | --            | lockups and poor          |
>>   |                   |        |               | performance when using    |
>>   |                   |        |               | Lucent hardware. These    |
>>   |                   |        |               | problems are believed to  |
>>   |                   |        |               | be fixed but more testing |
>>   |                   |        |               | is welcome.               |
>>   |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>>   |                   |        |               | For 5.1-RELEASE, the      |
>>   |                   |        |               | default file system type  |
>>   |                   |        |               | for newly created file    |
>>   |                   |        |               | systems is UFS2 rather    |
>>   | UFS2 as           |        |               | than UFS1. newfs(8) and   |
>>   | installation,     | --     | Robert Watson | sysinstall(8) have been   |
>>   | newfs default     |        |               | updated to use this new   |
>>   |                   |        |               | default. Testing to make  |
>>   |                   |        |               | sure all goes well after  |
>>   |                   |        |               | the change (committed on  |
>>   |                   |        |               | April 20, 2003) is vital. |
>>   |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>>   |                   |        |               | Support for pluggable     |
>>   |                   |        |               | directory services using  |
>>   |                   |        |               | NSS, including            |
>>   |                   |        |               | adaptations of current    |
>>   |                   |        | Jacques       | directory services (local |
>>   | NSSwitch support  | --     | Vidrine       | databases, NIS), and      |
>>   |                   |        |               | support for new services  |
>>   |                   |        |               | (LDAP, Active Directory,  |
>>   |                   |        |               | etc). This change has     |
>>   |                   |        |               | been committed, and       |
>>   |                   |        |               | requires broader testing. |
>>   |-------------------+--------+---------------+---------------------------|
>>   |                   |        |               | Kris Kennaway reports     |
>>   |                   |        |               | that he has seen several  |
>>   |                   |        |               | unique panics on the      |
>>   | Spurious alpha    |        |               | alpha machines, but since |
>>   | panics            | --     | --            | gdb -k doesn't work on    |
>>   |                   |        |               | alpha I haven't been able |
>>   |                   |        |               | to get more than a DDB    |
>>   |                   |        |               | traceback. No-one has     |
>>   |                   |        |               | looked into them.         |
>>   +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>>     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
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