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We hope you - enjoy reading.</p> - </section> - - <category> - <name>soc</name> - - <description>Google Summer of Code</description> - </category> - - <category> - <name>proj</name> - - <description>Projects</description> - </category> - - <category> - <name>arch</name> - - <description>FreeBSD Architecture</description> - </category> - - <category> - <name>ports</name> - - <description>The Ports Collection</description> - </category> - - <category> - <name>docs</name> - - <description>Documentation</description> - </category> - - <project cat='arch'> - <title>ARM/Marvell port</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Rafal</given> - - <common>Jaworowski</common> - </name> - - <email>raj@semihalf.com</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Bartlomiej</given> - - <common>Sieka</common> - </name> - - <email>tur@semihalf.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/&c=0h4@//depot/projects/arm/src/sys/arm/orion/?ac=83">Orion in Perforce</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>After the last couple of months of intensive development going - on towards FreeBSD support for Marvell System-on-Chip devices, we - have FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT running on the following systems:</p> - <ul> - <li>Orion (already available in Perforce):</li> - <ul> - <li>88F5281</li> - <li>88F5181</li> - <li>88F5182</li> - </ul> - <li>Kirkwood - 88F6281</li> - <li>Discovery - MV78100</li> - </ul> - <p>The above families of SOCs are built around CPU - cores compliant with ARMv5TE instruction set architecture - definition. They share a number of integrated peripherals, for most - of which we already have operational and stable drivers:</p> - <ul> - <li>UART</li> - <li>EHCI USB 2.0</li> - <li>Ethernet</li> - <li>IDMA (general purpose DMA engine)</li> - <li>XOR</li> - <li>TWSI (I2C)</li> - <li>Timers, watchdog, RTC</li> - <li>GPIO</li> - <li>Interrupt controller</li> - <li>L1, L2 cache</li> - </ul> - <p>High level functional summary:</p> - <ul> - <li>Production Quality</li> - <li>Error-free Operation</li> - <li>Multiuser</li> - <li>Self-hosted kernel/world builds</li> - <li>NFS- or USB-mounted root filesystem</li> - </ul> - <p>The code is partially available (Orion in Perforce), other - variants will also be integrated with Perforce/SVN soon.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Drivers that are In-progress: PCI and PCIE.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='proj'> - <title>Graphics support for the boot loader</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Oliver</given> - - <common>Fromme</common> - </name> - - <email>olli@freebsd.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>This project aims to implement graphics support for FreeBSD's - boot loader. It will replace the existing ASCII menu. (Note that - the ASCII menu will still be available when graphics mode cannot be - used, such as on serial console or on unsupported hardware.)</p> - - <p>For a more detailed description and screen shots please refer to - the project's Wiki URL above.</p> - - <p>Progress is slow (due to lack of time) but steady. The code - currently lives in the Perforce repository. I'll try to prepare a - first public CFT as soon as possible.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Implement a platform switch.</task> - - <task>Implement "themes" support (in FORTH).</task> - - <task>Documentation.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='proj'> - <title>FreeBSD Bugbusting Team</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Ceri</given> - - <common>Davies</common> - </name> - - <email>bugmeister@</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Remko</given> - - <common>Lodder</common> - </name> - - <email>bugmeister@</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Mark</given> - - <common>Linimon</common> - </name> - - <email>bugmeister@</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats">GNATS</url> - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting">BugBusting</url> - <url - href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html"> - PRs indexed by manpage</url> - <url - href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_tag_index.html"> - PRs indexed by tag</url> - <url - href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_possibly_committed.html"> - PRs which may have already been committed</url> - <url - href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html"> - Well-Known PRs as determined by the bugbusting team</url> - <url - href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues"> - Commonly Reported Issues</url> - maintained by Jeremy Chadwick (includes commentary and - analysis)</links> - - <body> - <p>We have granted Bruce Cran (bruce@) direct access to GNATS and - Volker Werth (vwe@) has been released from mentorship. We - appreciate their help!</p> - - <p>We had a third bugathon in June, which resulted in the closing - of a number of bugs and the investigation/classification of several - others. We are still trying to find ways to get more committers - helping us with closing PRs that the team has already analyzed.</p> - - <p>We continue to make good progress in categorizing PRs as they - arrive with 'tags' that correspond to manpages. (Special thanks go - to Dylan Cochran for the help.) As a result, we now have created - some prototype reports that allow browsing the database - <url - href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/pr_manpage_index.html"> - by manpage</url>.</p> - - <p>In addition, another new report, oriented towards PR submitters, - summarizes the - <url - href="http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/well_known_prs.html"> - most commonly reported issues</url>. - Many of these issues persist because they are difficult to fix. - Before filing a PR, you may want to check through this list.</p> - - <p>Mark Linimon summarized the good technical suggestions from the - bugathons so far this year to the wiki. As a part of this, he - rearranged the wiki pages, so if you have not seen them for a - while, please see - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting">BugBusting</url>. - In particular, the Resources page is much more complete.</p> - - <p>Jeremy Chadwick (koitsu@) is now maintaining a - <url - href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues"> - page</url> - - that summarizes some of the commonly reported issues. This - complements some of the reports, above, but includes a great deal - more information, including how-tos.</p> - - <p>The overall PR count has been holding at around 5300 since the - last release.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Think of some way for committers to only view PRs that have - been in some way 'vetted' or 'confirmed'.</task> - - <task>Generate more publicity for what we've already got in place, - and for what we intend to do next.</task> - - <task>Define new categories, classifications, and states for PRs, - that will better match our workflow.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='proj'> - <title>Build cluster</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kris</given> - - <common>Kennaway</common> - </name> - - <email>kris@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - </links> - - <body> - <p>For the past couple of months I have been working on - generalizing the package build cluster to allow it to host other - batch and interactive jobs. Currently we make an inefficient use of - build machines because various projects have dedicated machines - that are either underloaded or overloaded for their particular - tasks. The goal is to provide a framework for combining all of - these machine resources into a single cluster that can be shared by - many users, reducing dead time and allowing distributed build tasks - to take advantage of extra build resources when available. - Developers will be able to obtain on-demand interactive access to a - jail running on any of the available architectures, with root - access. Similarly, batch jobs will specify their resource - requirements and be dispatched to run on a suitable machine in the - cluster. Current status: The job queue manager is working and is - now being used to map package builds to machines. Various package - build scripts have been rewritten to use it instead of the previous - build scheduler. The generic job dispatcher is being prototyped and - will be validated with several existing services such as INDEX - builds. Various support services like ZFS snapshot replication have - been written.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project cat='docs'> - <title>The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Remko</given> - - <common>Lodder</common> - </name> - - <email>remko@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Rene</given> - - <common>Ladan</common> - </name> - - <email>r.c.ladan@gmail.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.freebsd-nl.org">Main documentation site</url> - - <url href="http://www.evilcoder.org/freebsd_nl/">Project site</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p> - <p>The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project is an ongoing project - to translate the FreeBSD Documentation resources to the Dutch - language.</p> - - <p>The project is currently progressing very well in translating - the FreeBSD Handbook to the Dutch language, the last chapter is - being translated by the project members.</p> - - <p>Recent achievements include the translation of the Jails - chapter, and the Virtualization chapter, as well as progression - on the Advanced Networking chapter. Rene Ladan is a keyplayer in - that region.</p> - - <p>We also started with the FAQ translation, which is another - major target which we should be reaching at some point.</p> - - <p>If you care to helpout with the translation(s) and/or want to - know something about it, please do not hesitate to contact us, we - are glad to help where possible.</p> - </p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Finish the Handbook translation.</task> - - <task>Finish the FAQ translation.</task> - - <task>Finish the Website translation.</task> - - <task>Keep the projects in sync with the English version(s).</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='docs'> - <title>FreeBSD FAQ Renovation</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Gábor</given> - - <common>Páli</common> - </name> - - <email>pgj@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Manolis</given> - - <common>Kiagias</common> - </name> - - <email>manolis@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/faq/"> - </url> - - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/faq-renewal">FreeBSD FAQ Renewal - Proposal</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>An extensive work on renovating the FreeBSD FAQ has been started - to support its Greek and Hungarian translations. Further - improvements and content changes are still possible, we hope other - committers will help us to keep the FAQ updated and tuned - further.</p> - - <p>We have launched a renewal proposal to collect and organize the - ideas around a more interactive, accurate, open for comments, - consistent across several views etc. FAQ document. We would like to - experiment with methods to implement the goals mentioned before, - and help is more than welcome.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Review the renovated FAQ.</task> - - <task>Add more question and answers to the FAQ.</task> - - <task>Refine the FAQ renewal proposal.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='proj'> - <title>finstall</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Ivan</given> - - <common>Voras</common> - </name> - - <email>ivoras@freebsd.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/finstall" /> - - <url href="http://www.sf.net/projects/finstall" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Between the last report and this one, the project has yielded a - LiveCD installer for i386 containing FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. The - project was presented at BSDCan 2008. The development is - progressing slowly due to the lack of free time. I'm looking for - funding that will allow me more involvement in the project. The big - item currently in development is documentation and description of - the protocol used between the front-end and the back-end, which - will result in more robustness in the implementation and could - support third-party clients. This sub-project is near completion. - The project is currently hosted at SourceForge to allow - contribution from non-FreeBSD developers.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Partition editor.</task> - - <task>Package selection.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='docs'> - <title>The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Gábor</given> - - <common>Kövesdán</common> - </name> - - <email>gabor@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Gábor</given> - - <common>Páli</common> - </name> - - <email>pgj@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://FreeBSD.org/hu">Hungarian Web Site for - FreeBSD</url> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/hu_HU.ISO8859-2/">Hungarian - Documentation for FreeBSD</url> - - <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HungarianDocumentationProject"> - The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project's Wiki Page</url> - - <url - href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_hu/&c=aXw@//depot/projects/docproj_hu/?ac=83"> - Perforce Depot for The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation - Project</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Hungarian translation of the - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hu/books/handbook"> - FreeBSD Handbook</a> - - has been finally committed to the doc repository. The translation - of the - <em>FreeBSD FAQ</em> - - has also been started, however, the original document needed to be - brought up to date first. Two other article translations has been - added, - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hu/articles/compiz-fusion"> - compiz-fusion</a> - - and - <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hu/articles/linux-users"> - linux-users</a>.</p> - - <p>Our Perforce depot was reorganized for the better layout, giving - newcomers more space to play. The - <a - href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/el_GR.ISO8859-7/share/tools/checkupdate/checkupdate.py"> - checkupdate</a> - - script written by Giorgos Keramidas, a new tool for checking - translations has been adopted to help the project's work.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X.</task> - - <task>Translate more articles.</task> - - <task>Translate books/fdp-primer.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='ports'> - <title>Qt/KDE4 Status Report</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Martin</given> - - <common>Wilke</common> - </name> - - <email>miwi@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>FreeBSD KDE Team</given> - </name> - - <email>kde@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://freebsd.kde.org" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Qt4 has been updated to 4.4.1 in our test repository. We ran - into some runtime problems with Qt 4.4.0, so it was never committed - it to the ports tree. Most of the problems have been fixed in 4.4.1 - and we plan to commit it in a few days.</p> - - <p>At the moment, the KDE 4.1 ports are ready for testing before - they are committed to the FreeBSD ports tree. We have already had - the first Call for Public Testing on July 17th, 2008 with KDE 4.1 - beta2. The feedback has been positive so far. If you want to help - to test them to speed up the process, please visit the - <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/install">Wiki page</a> - - and provide feedback.</p> - - <p>We plan to have it all committed by the middle of August.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project cat='soc'> - <title>Layer2 filtering</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Gleb</given> - - <common>Kurtsou</common> - </name> - - <email>gk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Andrew</given> - - <common>Thompson</common> - </name> - - <email>thompsa@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url - href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/GlebKurtsov/Improving_layer2_filtering" /> - - <url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gleb/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Project aims to improve layer2 filtering in ipfw and pf. So far - following project goals are achieved: pfil framework is extended to - handle ethernet packets, ipfw layer2 filtering is greatly - simplified, added l2filter and l2tag per interface flags. Both ipfw - and pf firewalls support filtering by ethernet addresses, support - stateful filtering with ethernet addresses and firewall's lookup - tables are extended to contain ethernet addresses.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Implement ARP filtering options in IPFW.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='ports'> - <title>Ports Collection</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mark</given> - - <common>Linimon</common> - </name> - - <email>linimon@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">The FreeBSD Ports - Collection</url> - - <url - href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/"> - Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection</url> - - <url href="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">FreeBSD - ports unfetchable distfile survey (Bill Fenner's report)</url> - - <url href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html">FreeBSD ports - monitoring system</url> - - <url href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html">The FreeBSD - Ports Management Team</url> - - <url href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com">marcuscom - Tinderbox</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The ports count has jumped to over 19,000. The PR count has been - holding steady at around 900.</p> - - <p>KDE has been updated to 4.1. Special thanks go to Martin Wilke - for a great deal of pre-testing.</p> - - <p>GNOME has been updated three times, first to 2.22.1 and then to - 2.22.2 and 2.22.3.</p> - - <p>Other notable updates are automake, gettext, libtool, and - m4.</p> - - <p>Florent Thoumie has been working on some updates to the pkg_* - tools.</p> - - <p>Ion-Mihai Tetcu has set up a tinderbox with several purposes: - first, to quickly try to build packages as changes are committed; - secondly, to build them with a non-standard set of environment - variables; and thirdly, to build older packages with the non- - standard set of environment variables. As a result of all this - work, and work by various committers, we are much closer to - building packages corrected in the NOPORTDOCS case.</p> - - <p>Kris Kennaway has done a substantial rewrite of the package - building tools, including moving as a default to ZFS, which allows - quick cloning of src and ports directories. It is now much easier - to manage and monitor the builds. Work on this is continuing. See - the commits to - <url - href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Tools/portbuild/scripts/"> - Tools/portbuild/scripts</url> - - for more information. (Work is ongoing to update the Package - Building article.) Related work has involved cleaning up some of - the ports infrastructure; in particular, the INDEX builds are now - much faster.</p> - - <p>We have been able to do many -exp runs since the last report, - including those for bsd.cmake.mk, autotools update, CC environment - passing, the KDE 4.1 pre-integration and post-integration checks, - lockmgr changes, tty changes, and others.</p> - - <p>Although a number of PRs have been closed, we are still at 57 - portmgr PRs, the same as the last report.</p> - - <p>The following large changes are in the pipeline: - <ul> - <li>Introduction of Perl 5.10</li> - </ul> - </p> - - <p>We are currently building packages for amd64-6, amd64-7, - amd64-8, i386-6, i386-7, i386-8, sparc64-6, and sparc64-7. RELENG_5 - has reached the end of its supported life.</p> - - <p>We have added 4 new committers since the last report.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Most of the remaining ports PRs are "existing port/PR - assigned to committer". Although the maintainer-timeout policy is - helping to keep the backlog down, we are going to need to do more - to get the ports in the shape they really need to be in.</task> - - <task>Although we have added many maintainers, we still have over - 4,000 unmaintained ports (see, for instance, the list on portsmon). - We are always looking for dedicated volunteers to adopt at least a - few unmaintained ports. As well, the packages on amd64 and sparc64 - lag behind i386, and we need more testers for those.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='soc'> - <title>Porting BSD-licensed text-processing tools from - OpenBSD</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Gábor</given> - - <common>Kövesdán</common> - </name> - - <email>gabor@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2008">Wiki - page</url> - - <url - href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&c=Kqj@//depot/projects/soc2008/gabor_textproc/?ac=83"> - Perforce depot</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The grep utility is ready for a thorough test on the portbuild - cluster. It is almost compatible with GNU grep, but there are - differences in the regex handling at the level of the regex - libraries of GNU and the base system one, thus a better - compatibility is very hard to implement.</p> - - <p>Some progress has been made on diff, but some important options - are still missing. The sort utility seems to be very problematic in - the aspect of the wide character support by design, thus it was - given a lower priority.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Finish the incomplete options of diff and optimize it.</task> - - <task>Investigate about the opportunities to fix sort.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='docs'> - <title>The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>José Vicente</given> - - <common>Carrasco Vayá</common> - </name> - - <email>carvay@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Gábor</given> - - <common>Kövesdán</common> - </name> - - <email>gabor@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://FreeBSD.org/es">Spanish Web Site for - FreeBSD</url> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/">Spanish - Documentation for FreeBSD</url> - - <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SpanishDocumentationProject">The - FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project's Wiki Page</url> - - <url - href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_es/&c=S1s@//depot/projects/docproj_es/?ac=83"> - Perforce Depot for The FreeBSD Spanish Documentation Project</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>We have not made any significant progress in this period. We - definitely need more active translators to progress with the - translation project.</p> - </body> - - <help> - <task>Complete renovation of the Spanish web site.</task> - - <task>Update Handbook translation.</task> - - <task>Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X.</task> - </help> - </project> - - <project cat='proj'> - <title>USB</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Hans Petter</given> - - <common>Sirevaag Selasky</common> - </name> - - <email>hselasky@freebsd.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url - href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/&c=oDu@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/?ac=83"> - Current USB files</url> - - <url - href="http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//&cdf=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT&c=Vfw@//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb2/core/README.TXT?ac=64&rev1=2"> - Current USB API README file</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>During the last three months there has been a number of changes. - Most notably all global USB symbols have been renamed to "usb2_" to - allow for co-existence with the old USB stack. Also there is now a - completely new and reworked UGEN driver which allows multiple - drivers to hook onto the same USB device. No more need to unload - any kernel drivers. For example it is now possible to have a - userland Mouse driver stealing half of the mouse events at the same - time "ums" is loaded. The only disadvantage is that your mouse - cursor will move slower on the screen. This is maybe not the most - common use-case, but it illustrates that kernel USB drivers are no - longer locking out other USB userland drivers. A new userland - libusb is in the works for FreeBSD. The USB stack now also has - support for independent USB BUS, USB Device, and USB Interface - permissions. That means you can more easily give USB permissions to - USB device drivers at either USB BUS, USB Device or USB Interface - level. All USB modules have now been grouped into functional - categories: usb2_bluetooth, usb2_ndis, usb2_controller, usb2_quirk, - usb2_core, usb2_serial, usb2_ethernet, usb2_sound, usb2_image, - usb2_storage, usb2_input, usb2_template, usb2_misc, and - usb2_wlan.</p> - - <p>Ideas and comments with regard to the new USB API are welcome - on the <a - href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb"> - FreeBSD-USB Mailing List</a>.</p> - </body> - </project> -</report> - |