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A variety of - accomplishments have been made over the last couple of months, - including strong progress relating to the KSE project, which - brings Scheduler Activations to the FreeBSD kernel, as well - as less visible infrastructure projects such as improvements - to the mount interface, PAM integration work, and translation - efforts. Shortly following the deadline for this status - report, the BSD Conference and FreeBSD Developer Summit were - held, and will be covered in the next bi-monthly report at - the end of March. Plans are already under way for the USENIX - Annual Technical Conference in Monterey, CA, later this year, - and all and sundry are encouraged to attend to get further - insight in FreeBSD development.</p> - - <p>Robert Watson</p> - </section> - - - <project> - <title>USB stack maintenance</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Josef</given> - - <common>Karthauser</common> - </name> - - <email>joe@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>I've been working to integrate recent improvements in the - NetBSD usb stack to FreeBSD -current. Both NetBSD and OpenBSD - currently share the same source, as FreeBSD did too at once point - before it diverged. The goal is to get back to that state, but - there are many improvements on both sides that need to be merged - before this is complete.</p> - - <p>I'm currently looking for someone to help maintain usb in - -stable. Please let me know if you're interested.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD ACLs</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Chris</given> - - <common>Faulhaber</common> - </name> - - <email>jedgar@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.fxp.org/jedgar/ACL/"> - </url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Patches for cp(1), ls(1), and mv(1) to bring in - POSIX.1e-compliant Access Control List support have been updated - to patch against builds of -CURRENT. Other system utilities are - currently being evaluated for ACL support including install(1) - (patch available) and mtree(8). Work is in progress to verify the - native getfacl(1), setfacl(1), and other utilities build and work - correctly on other ACL-enabled systems (e.g. Linux w/ACL patches) - and to help verify POSIX-compliance of the continuing TrustedBSD - work along with other systems. Finally, experimental Perl and PHP - modules are available allowing limited access to native ACLs for - languages other than C.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD (Netgraph - implementation)</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Maksim</given> - - <common>Yevmenkin</common> - </name> - - <email>m_evmenkin@yahoo.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The project is making progress. The goal is to design and - implement Host Controller Interface (HCI) and Link Layer Control - and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) layers using Netgraph framework. - More distant goal is to write support for Service Discovery - Protocol (SDP) and RFCOMM protocol (Serial port emulation over - Bluetooth link) . All information was obtained from Bluetooth - Specification Book v1.1.</p> - - <p>Project status: In progress. 1) Design: mostly complete, there - are some minor issues to be resolved. 2) Implementation: Kernel - - HCI and L2CAP Netgraph nodes have been implemented; 3) User space - (API, library, utilities) - in progress. 4) Testing: In progress. - I do not have real Bluetooth hardware at this point, so i wrote - some tools that allow me to test the code. Some of them will be - used as foundation for future user space utilities.</p> - - <p>Issues: 1) Bluetooth hardware; I do not have real Bluetooth - hardware, so if people can donate hardware/specs it would be - great. I promise to write all required drivers and make them - available. I also promise to return hardware/specs on first - request. 2) Project name; I would like to see the name that - reflects the following: it is a Bluetooth stack, implementation - is for FreeBSD and implementation is based on Netgraph - framework</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>"GEOM" - generalized block storage manipulation</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Poul-Henning</given> - - <common>Kamp</common> - </name> - - <email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~phk/Geom/">Old concept paper - here.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>This project is now finally underway, thanks to DARPA and NAI - getting a sponsorship lined up. The infrastructure code and data - structures are currently taking form inside a userland simulation - harness. Basic MBR and BSD methods have been written and device - attach/taste/dettach algorithms been implemented and - validated.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Makoto</given> - - <common>Matsushita</common> - </name> - - <email>matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/">Project - Webpage</url> - - <url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/notes.html"> - SNAPSHOTs Notes (in Japanese)</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>I've update OS of buildboxes to the latest FreeBSD 5-current - and 4-stable. Everything goes fine. From January 2002, I've - started a webzine, SNAPSHOTS Notes (only Japanese version is - available). SNAPSHOTs Notes pickups tips and information - especially for the people living with FreeBSD 5-current/4-stable. - Article or idea for SNAPSHOTs notes are always welcome (you don't - need to write in Japanese :-).</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD Audit</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>trustedbsd-discuss</given> - </name> - - <email>trustedbsd-discuss@TrustedBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD project - website</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Robert Watson created the TrustedBSD audit perforce tree, - which is a branch from the TrustedBSD base tree, in order to - start pushing development efforts towards using a revision - control system. Andrew Reiter started to merge in some framework - related code for generation of audit records, enqueueing writes, - and handling data writing. There is a great deal of work to be - done with updates and discussion on the - trustedbsd-discuss@TrustedBSD.org mailing list.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>KSE Status Report</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Julian</given> - - <common>Elischer</common> - </name> - - <email>julian@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~julian/">Links from - here.</url> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/kse/">Links from - here.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The KSE project (an attempt to support scalable thread in - FreeBSD using kernel support), has reached What I call "milestone - 3". At this milestone it is possible to run a multithreaded - program on a single CPU but with full concurrency of threads on - that CPU. In other words the kernel supports the fact that one - thread can block by allowing another thread to run in its place. - A test program that demonstrates this is available at the above - website.</p> - - <p>Milestone 4 will be to allow threads from the same program to - run on multiple CPUs but may require more input from the SMPng - project. I am at the moment (Feb 6) getting ready to commit a - first set of changes for milestone 3, that have no real effect - but serve to drastically reduce the complexity of the remaining - diff so that others can read it more easily. After changes to - libkvm to support this diff have been added it should be possible - to run 'ps' and look at multiple threads in a treaded process. I - will be demonstrating KSE/M3 at BSDcon.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Netgraph ATM</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Harti</given> - - <common>Brandt</common> - </name> - - <email>brandt@fokus.gmd.de</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url - href="ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/cc/cats/usr/harti/ngatm/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The Netgraph ATM package has been split into a number of - smaller packages: bsnmp is a general-purpose SNMP daemon with - support for loadable modules. Two modules come with it: one - implementing the standard network-interface and IP related parts - of MIB-2 and one for interfacing other modules to the NetGraph - sub-system. ngatmbase contains the drivers for the ATM hardware, - the ng_atm netgraph type and a few test tools. This package - allows one to use ATM PVCs. It should be possible, for example, - to do PPP over ATM with this package. Both bsnmp and ngatmbase - are available in version 1.0 under the link above. Two other - modules will be released in February: ngatmsig containing the - UNI-4.0 signalling stack as netgraph nodes and ngatmip containing - CLIP and LANE-2.0.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mike</given> - - <common>Barcroft</common> - </name> - - <email>mike@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <common>FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List</common> - </name> - - <email>standards@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/c99/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>A significant amount of progress was made in December and - January, particularly in the area of utility conformance. Several - utilities were updated to conform to SUSv3, they include: at(1), - mailx(1), pwd(1), split(1), and uudecode(1). Several patches have - been submitted to increase conformance in other utilities, they - include: fold(1), patch(1), m4(1), nice(1), pr(1), renice(1), - wc(1), and xargs(1). These are in the process of being reviewed - and committed. Two new utilities have been written, specifically - pathchk(1) and tabs(1). These are also being reviewed and will be - committed shortly.</p> - - <p>A patch which implements most of the requirements of scanf(3) is - being reviewed and is expected to be committed shortly. This will - allow us to MFC a number of new functions and headers. - Additionally, work has started on wide string and complex number - support.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>jpman project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kazuo</given> - - <common>Horikawa</common> - </name> - - <email>horikawa@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/man-jp/">jpman project (in - Japanese)</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>For 4.5-RELEASE, port ja-man-doc-4.5.tgz is in sync with base - system except for OpenSSH pages (OpenSSH 2.3 based instead of - 2.9) and perl5 pages (jpman project do not maintain). Section 3 - updating has 55% finished.</p> - - <p>OKAZAKI Tetsurou has incorporated changes on base system's - groff into port japanese/groff. MORI Kouji has fixed two bugs of - port japanese/man.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>KAME</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>KAME core team</given> - - <common> - </common> - </name> - - <email>core@kame.net</email> - - <name> - <given>KAME Users Mailing List</given> - - <common> - </common> - </name> - - <email>snap-users@kame.net</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.kame.net/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The KAME project is currently focusing on the scoped - addressing architecture, the advanced API implementation, NATPT - and the mobile ipv6 implementation. Though these stuffs are not - stable enough to be merge into the FreeBSD tree, you can get and - try them from the above URL.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD in Bulgarian</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Peter</given> - - <common>Pentchev</common> - </name> - - <email>roam@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD-bg.ringlet.net/" /> - - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/bg/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The FreeBSD in Bulgarian project aims to bring a more - comfortable working environment to Bulgarian users of the FreeBSD - OS. This includes, but is not limited to, font, keymap and locale - support, translation of the FreeBSD documentation into Bulgarian, - local user groups and various forms of on-line help channels and - discussion forums to help Bulgarians adopt and use FreeBSD.</p> - - <p>A guide for using FreeBSD with Bulgarian settings has been put - up on the project's website. The CVS repository will be made - public shortly, linked to on the URL's above.</p> - - <p>An independent project for making FreeBSD easier to use by - Bulgarians has appeared, <a - href="http://www.FreeBSD-bg.org/">http://www.FreeBSD-bg.org/</a>. - It also hosts a mailing list for discussions of FreeBSD in - Bulgarian, <a href="mailto:stable@FreeBSD-bg.org"> - stable@FreeBSD-bg.org</a>. For more information about the mailing - list, send an e-mail with "help" in the message body to - <a href="mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD-bg.org"> - majordomo@FreeBSD-bg.org</a>.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD Java Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Greg</given> - - <common>Lewis</common> - </name> - - <email>glewis@eyesbeyond.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/java" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The past two months have been an exciting time in the FreeBSD - Java Project with the signing of a license between the FreeBSD - Foundation and Sun allowing us access to updated JDK source code - and the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK). This license will also - allow the project to release a binary version of both the JDK and - JRE once JCK testing is complete. Work on this testing is under - way with the project hopeful of being able to make a binary - release in the not too distant future.</p> - - <p>In lieu of the binary release which was hoped for with FreeBSD - 4.5 the project will release an updated source patchset this - weekend. This patchset will feature further work on the FreeBSD - "native" threads subsystem from Bill Huey. Also, thanks to hard - work by Joe Kelsey and Fuyuhiko Maruyama, the patchset will for - the first time feature a working Java browser plugin!</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Revised {mode,log}page support for camcontrol</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kelly</given> - - <common>Yancey</common> - </name> - - <email>kbyanc@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Extending camcontrol's page definition file format to include - both modepage and logpage definitions; adding support to - camcontrol to query and reset log page parameters. Consideration - is being made to possibly include support for diagnostic and - vital product data pages, but that is outside the current project - scope. New page definition file format includes capability to - conditionally include page definitions based on SCSI INQUIRY - results allowing vendor-specific pages to be described also. - Approximately 90% complete.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Pluggable Authentication Modules</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mark</given> - - <common>Murray</common> - </name> - - <email>markm@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Dag-Erling</given> - - <common>Smørgrav</common> - </name> - - <email>des@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://openpam.sourceforge.net/">OpenPAM</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>OpenPAM, a new library intended to replace Linux-PAM in - FreeBSD, has been written and is undergoing integration testing. - It is available for download from the URL listed above.</p> - - <p>In addition to this, a couple of new modules have been written - (pam_lastlog(8), pam_login_access(8)), and the pam_unix(8) module - has been extended to perform most of the tasks normally performed - by login(1), which is now fully PAMified.</p> - - <p>The PAM FDP article has been put on hold until OpenPAM - replaces Linux-PAM in CVS, to avoid wasting effort on soon-to-be - obsolete documentation.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD MAC Implementation</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Robert</given> - - <common>Watson</common> - </name> - - <email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD Project Web - Site</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Substantial progress has been made towards a working MAC - implementation. The focus over the last two months has been - moving from a hard-coded series of MAC policies to a more - flexible implementation. A pluggable policy framework has been - created (and is still under development), supporting Biba, MLS, - TE, a "BSD Extended" model, and a sample mac_none module. Some - modules must be compiled in or loaded prior to boot; others may - be introduced at run-time. Support for networking has improved, - with improved handling of IP fragmentation in IPv4, support for - various pseudo-interfaces such as if_tun and if_tap, improved - integration into userland, NFS-related fixes, moving the VFS - enforcement out of individual filesystems, support for a - 'multilevel' mount flag, support for explicit labeling in procfs - and devfs, addition of an 'extattrctl lsattr' argument to list - EAs on a filesystem, support for label ranges in the Biba and MAC - policies, and much more.</p> - - <p>Targets for the next two months include more universal - enforcement of VFS-related calls, improved support for - alternative ABIs, improved flexibility of in-kernel subject and - object labels, support for IPv6 and IPsec, and improved support - for NFS serving.</p> - - <p>Development continues in the FreeBSD Perforce repository, - which may be accessed using cvsup.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>New mount(2) API</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Poul-Henning</given> - - <common>Kamp</common> - </name> - - <email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Maxime</given> - - <common>Henrion</common> - </name> - - <email>mux@sneakerz.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Now that the patch has been mailed to the - freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org mailing list, and that there were no - objections, the commit will happen soon. Poul is currently - testing it in his own tree. After it has been committed, it will - be time to modify the filesystems in the tree to use VFS_NMOUNT - instead of VFS_MOUNT. Mount(8) will also need some modifications. - Some new manpages -- nmount(2) and kernel_vmount(9) -- are being - created in the meantime.</p> - </body> - </project> - - - <project> - <title>SMPng</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>smp@FreeBSD.org</given> - </name> - - <email>smp@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/smp/">SMPng project - website</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Alfred Perlstein committed file descriptor locking code - which was definitely a good push towards trying to lock down - some important pieces of global data. Peter Wemm has made - progress on pmap cleanups for x86 SMP TLB shootdowns. Matt - Dillon and John Baldwin have made progress on getting patches - done for moving accesses to ucred's out from under Giant's - protection. John Baldwin has also made some commits in order - to get the alpha port's SMP working. Matt Dillon has plans - for hunting down fileops locking issues in order to continue - his previous Giant pushdown work.</p> - </body> - </project> - -</report> - |