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<!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
Report//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/xml/statusreport.dtd">
<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>October-December</month>
<year>2006</year>
</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>Happy New Year. This Report covers the last quarter of a exciting
year 2006 for FreeBSD development. FreeBSD 6.2 is finally out of the
door and work towards FreeBSD 7.0 is gearing up. Some of the projects
in this report will be part of that effort, others are already in the
tree. Many projects need your help with testing and otherwise. Please
see the "Open tasks" sections for more information.</p>
<p>The BSD crowd will meet at
<a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon</a>
March 8-10th in Tokyo and a two day FreeBSD developer summit will be
held at
<a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan</a>
May 16-19th in Ottawa. Finally,
<a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon</a>
September 14-15th in Copenhagen is already looking for papers.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you
enjoy reading.</p>
</section>
<category>
<name>proj</name>
<description>Projects</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>team</name>
<description>FreeBSD Team Reports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>net</name>
<description>Network Infrastructure</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>kern</name>
<description>Kernel</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>drv</name>
<description>Hardware Drivers</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>docs</name>
<description>Documentation</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>bin</name>
<description>Userland Programs</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>arch</name>
<description>Architectures</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>ports</name>
<description>Ports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>misc</name>
<description>Miscellaneous</description>
</category>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>GEOM Multipath</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Matthew</given>
<common>Jacob</common>
</name>
<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>A toy implementation of GEOM based active/passive multipath is
now done and in a perforce repository. Seems to work.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>FreshPorts</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Dan</given>
<common>Langille</common>
</name>
<email>dan@langille.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.freshports.org/">FreshPorts</url>
<url href="http://news.freshports.org/">FreshPorts News</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>There have been a number of improvements to FreshPorts over the
last quarter of 2006. The following are just a few of them. The
links take you to the relevant article within the
<a href="http://news.freshports.org">FreshPorts News website</a>
.
<ul>
<li>Better
<a href="http://news.freshports.org/index.php?s=pagination">
pagination</a>
of larger result sets</li>
<li>Listing of
<a
href="http://news.freshports.org/2006/10/11/sanity-test-failures/">
sanity test failures</a>
</li>
<li>Inclusion of
<a
href="http://news.freshports.org/2006/10/01/the-latest-and-greatest-vulnerabilities/">
latest vulnerabilities</a>
on the front page</li>
<li>Started working on adding tools to make
FreshSource/FreshPorts more useful as a
<a
href="http://news.freshports.org/2006/11/29/freshsourcefreshports-as-a-developer-platform/">
developer tool</a>
</li>
<li>The new
<a href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php?aid=589#opteron">
dual opteron server</a>
has been
<a
href="http://news.freshports.org/2006/11/09/opti-has-left-the-building/">
deployed!</a>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>My thanks to the many people who have contributed suggestions,
ideas, and code over the years. Most of you are documented at the
above URLs.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>FreshPorts/FreshSource as a developer tool</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>BSDCan 2007</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Dan</given>
<common>Langille</common>
</name>
<email>dan@langille.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Folks!
<br />
It is that time of year. You may have missed the
<a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/papers.php">call for papers</a>
, but please put in your proposal right away. This is often a busy
time of year, but please take the time to consider presenting at
BSDCan.</p>
<p>Please read the
<a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/submissions.php">submission
instructions</a>
and send in your proposal today!</p>
<p>You may be interested in our sister conference: PGCon. If you
have an interest in
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL</a>
, a leading relational database, which just happens to be open
source, then we have the conference for you!
<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2007/">PGCon 2007</a>
will be held immediately after BSDCan 2007, at the same venue, and
will follow a similar format.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Waiting for papers</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>FreeSBIE</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Matteo</given>
<common>Riondato</common>
</name>
<email>matteo@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>FreeSBIE</given>
<common>Staff</common>
</name>
<email>staff@FreeSBIE.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>FreeSBIE</given>
<common>Mailing List</common>
</name>
<email>freesbie@gufi.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeSBIE.org" />
<url href="http://users.gufi.org/~rionda/20relnotes/">FreeSBIE 2.0
Release Notes Preview</url>
<url href="http://users.gufi.org/~rionda/20screen/">FreeSBIE 2.0
Screenshots Preview</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>FreeSBIE is approaching the 2.0-RELEASE. The first release
candidate proved to be good enough but a second one will probably
be released. An external developer is working on integrating
BSDInstaller in FreeSBIE 2.0 and this may cause a little delay of
the release date. Release Notes were written and need to be updated
with the current list of packages. A script which allows to switch
Tor+Privoxy on and off was added and its usage was documented. The
2.0-RELEASE is near, hopefully near the end of January but this
will also depend on when FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE will be released.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='drv'>
<title>MPT LSI-Logic Host Adapters: mpt</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Matthew</given>
<common>Jacob</common>
</name>
<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>The 'mpt' project is support for the MPT LSI-Logic Host Adapters
(SCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS).</p>
<p>The last quarter saw a lot of change supported by Yahoo! and
LSI-Logic and many others as things settled out for better support
for U320. Some initial Big Endian support was offered by John
Birrel and Scott Long.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Finish SAS Integrated RAID support.</task>
<task>Try and get U320 RAID working better than it currently
does.</task>
<task>Finish Big Endian support, including that for target
mode.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='drv'>
<title>QLogic SCSI and Fibre Channel: isp</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Matthew</given>
<common>Jacob</common>
</name>
<email>mjacob@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>This project is for support for QLogic SCSI and Fibre Channel
host adapters.</p>
<p>The last quarter saw the addition of 4Gb Fibre Channel support
and a complete rewrite of fabric management (which is still
settling out).</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='drv'>
<title>Bt878 Audio Driver (aka FusionHDTV 5 Lite driver)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>John-Mark</given>
<common>Gurney</common>
</name>
<email>jmg@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://perforce.freebsd.org/fileSearch.cgi?FSPC=%2F%2Fdepot%2Fuser%2Fjmg%2Fbktrau%2F...&ignore=GO%21">
Perforce source repository</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Basic audio capture is working. All of the parameters are set by
userland, while the RISC program generation is by kernel. No real
audio has been captured as there are no drivers for the NTSC tuner
yet. Someone with a real Bt878 NTSC card that is supported by
bktr(4) could use this to capture audio without using the sound
card.</p>
<p>Due to lack of documentation from DViCO and LG, I have copied
magic values from the Linux driver and managed to get ATSC
capturing working. There was a bug in the capture driver that was
releasing buffers to userland early causing what appeared to be
reception issues. Now that we use the RISC status bits as buffer
completion bits, capture works cleanly. This does mean that even if
you provide more than 4 buffers to the driver, the buffers will be
divided into four segments, and returned in segments.</p>
<p>A Python module is available, along with a sample capture
application using it. The module is now known to work well with
threads so that tuning (expensive due to i2c ioctls) can happen in
another thread without causing program slow down. The module is
working well with a custom PVR backend.</p>
<p>Additional ioctls have been added to get sibling devices. This
allows one to open a bktrau device, and get the correct bktr(4)
device that is in the same slot. This is necessary so that when
adjusting GPIO pins or sending i2c commands, they are to the
correct device.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Provide support for NTSC and FM tuning.</task>
<task>Add support for other cards and tuners that use the Bt878
chip.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Past and Future PR Closing Events</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Florent</given>
<common>Thoumie</common>
</name>
<email>flz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugathons" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Following the example of our NetBSD friends, we organized a
couple of Bugathons to help decreasing the open PR count. At first,
it was decided to make it a monthly event focused on both src,
ports and doc. Audience decreased with each Bugathon organized and
less non-ports committers attended the events. So from now on, we
will focus on ports (making it a Portathon) and organize a new
event after the end of each ports freeze (that should be twice a
year, at most).</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Updating X.org FreeBSD Ports to 7.2</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Florent</given>
<common>Thoumie</common>
</name>
<email>flz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Eric</given>
<common>Anholt</common>
</name>
<email>anholt@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Dejan</given>
<common>Lesjak</common>
</name>
<email>lesi@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/">X.org Official
Website</url>
<url
href="http://git.xbsd.org/?p=freebsd/ports.git;a=shortlog;h=xorg">
Experimental X.org Ports Tree</url>
<url href="http://blog.xbsd.org/">Latest news about FreeBSD X.org
Porting Efforts</url>
<url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/">
FreeBSD-X11 Mailing List Archives</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>X.org 7.2 release has been delayed more than a month, which gave
us more time to fix build failures, to work on a few runtime issues
and to determine the easiest way to upgrade from 6.9 to 7.2 (mostly
with the help of people on the
<a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11">
freebsd-x11@ mailing list</a>
). Everything is in a rather good shape but there's still a little
amount of work to do. The merge of new ports is most likely to
happen before the end of January.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Do a global review of the diff between the original tree and
the experimental one (git-diff origin xorg for git users)</task>
<task>Fix the remaining (9 I think, 3 being lang/jdk's) build
errors</task>
<task>Continue testing</task>
<task>Do another experimental build on pointyhat</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>New USB Stack</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Hans Petter</given>
<common>Sirevaag Selasky</common>
</name>
<email>hselasky@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://perforce.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/usb/src/sys/dev/usb">
Current USB files</url>
<url href="http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/usb4bsd">My USB
homepage</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>During the last three months there has not been so much activity
in the USB project. Some regression issues have been reported and
fixed. Bernd Walter reports that he has got the new USB stack
working on ARM processors with some minor tweaks. Markus Brueffer
reports that he is working on the USB HID parser and support. A
current issue with the new USB stack is that the EHCI driver does
not work on the Sparc64 architecture. If someone has got a Sparc64
with FreeBSD 7-CURRENT on and can lend the USB project the root
password, a serial console and a USB test device, for example a USB
memory stick, that would be much appreciated. Another unresolved
issue is that the ural(4) USB device driver does not always work.
This is currently being worked on.</p>
<p>If you want to test the new USB stack, check out the USB
perforce tree or download the SVN version of the USB driver from my
USB homepage. At the moment the tarballs are a little out of
date.</p>
<p>Ideas and comments with regard to the new USB API are welcome at
<a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb">
freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org</a>
.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>Multi-link PPP daemon (MPD)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Alexander</given>
<common>Motin</common>
</name>
<email>mav@alkar.net</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Archie</given>
<common>Cobbs</common>
</name>
<email>archie@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd/">Project home</url>
<url
href="http://mpd.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/mpd/mpd/doc/changes.xml">
ChangeLog</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>MPD is moving to the next major release - mpd4_0. At the end of
October one more beta version (4_0b5) was released and first RC is
planned soon.</p>
<p>Since 3_18 and 4_0b4 numerous bugs and cases of incorrect
internal handling have been fixed. Performance has been increased
and system requirements reduced.</p>
<p>Many new features have been implemented:
<ul>
<li>IPv6 support</li>
<li>NAT (using the ng_nat(4) node)</li>
<li>integrated web server</li>
<li>Deflate and Predictor-1 CCP compression</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>Some historically broken features have been reimplemented:
<ul>
<li>TCP and UDP link types</li>
<li>CCP compression</li>
<li>ECP encryption</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>To support compression, two new Netgraph nodes ng_deflate and
ng_pred1 have been created and the ng_ppp node has been
modified.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>ng_ppp node refactoring.</task>
<task>Implement packet loss notification in related Netgraph nodes
(ng_ppp, ng_pptp, ng_async, ng_deflate, ng_pred1, ng_vjc, ...) to
reduce recovery time and probability of incorrect packet
decompression.</task>
<task>MPD auth subsystem refactoring.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Update of the Linux Compatibility Environment in the
Kernel</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Alexander</given>
<common>Leidinger</common>
</name>
<email>netchild@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Roman</given>
<common>Divacky</common>
</name>
<email>rdivacky@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Emulation</given>
<common>Mailinglist</common>
</name>
<email>emulation@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/linux-kernel">Wiki page about
the Linux compatibility environment.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Since the last status report we made good progress in improving
the compatibility environment. We fixed more than 30 testcases on
i386 (130 testcases = 16% still failing) and more than 60 testcases
on amd64 (140 testcases = 17% still failing) in the Linux 2.4
compatibility. These numbers compare FreeBSD 6.2 with -CURRENT.
Some of those fixes are edge cases in the error handling, and some
of them fix real issues -- e.g. hangs -- and improve the stability
and correctness of the emulation.</p>
<p>Regarding the Linux 2.6 compatibility there are 140 testcases
(17%) on i386 and 150 testcases (18%) on amd64 still failing in
-CURRENT. After fixing some showstopper problems with real
applications, we should be able to give the 2.6 emulation a more
widespread exposure "soon" to find more bugs and to determine the
importance of those Linux syscalls which we did not implement
yet.</p>
<p>The severity of the broken testcases varies, and some of them
will never be fixed, e.g., we will never be able to load Linux
kernel modules into a FreeBSD kernel, being able to add swap with a
Linux command has very low priority, and fixing stuff which is used
by applications like IPC type 17 has high priority.</p>
<p>Some differences in the 2.6 compatibility are because not all
i386 changes are merged into the amd64 code, and some testcases are
already fixed in our perforce repository but need more review
before they can be committed to -CURRENT.</p>
<p>We need some more testers and bug reporters. So if you have a
little bit of time and a favorite Linux application, please play
around with it on -CURRENT. If there is a problem, have a look at
the wiki if we already know about it and report on
<a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation">
emulation@</a>
. We are especially interested in reports about the 2.6
compatibility (sysctl compat.linux.osversion=2.6.16), but only with
the most recent -CURRENT and maybe with some patches we have in the
perforce repository (mandatory on amd64).</p>
<p>We thank all people who tested the changes / submitted patches
and thus helped improving the Linux compatibility environment.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Sound Subsystem Improvements</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ariff</given>
<common>Abdullah</common>
</name>
<email>ariff@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Alexander</given>
<common>Leidinger</common>
</name>
<email>netchild@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Multimedia</given>
<common>Mailinglist</common>
</name>
<email>multimedia@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ariff/">Some patches / binary
modules.</url>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/ideas/">The FreeBSD
Project Ideas List.</url>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/soundsystem">Wiki page about the
sound system.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Since the last status report there were improvements to the
emu10kx driver for High Definition Audio (HDA) compatible chips.
Some more chips are supported now and already supported chips
should provide a better zero-configuration experience.</p>
<p>The generic sound code got some very nice low latency changes,
and fixes which make it multichannel/endian/format safe. We do not
support multichannel operation yet, but this work is a prerequisite
to work on implementing multichannel operation. This work also
fixed some bugs which people may experience as clicks, hickups,
truncation or similar behavior in the sound-output.</p>
<p>So far there is no merge to 5.x or 6.x planned for this code,
especially because there are API/ABI changes, e.g., several sysctls
changed. People who do not care about this can download binary
sound modules from Ariff's download page for 6.x and 5.x.</p>
<p>We thank all people who tested the changes / submitted patches
and thus helped improving the sound system.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Have a look at the sound related entries on the ideas
list.</task>
<task>Add multichannel support.</task>
<task>sndctl(1): tool to control non-mixer parts of the sound
system (e.g. spdif switching, virtual-3D effects) by a user
(instead of the sysctl approach in -CURRENT); pcmplay(1),
pcmrec(1), pcmutil(1).</task>
<task>Plugable FEEDER infrastructure. For ease of debugging various
feeder stuff and/or as userland library and test suite.</task>
<task>Extend the wiki page.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='docs'>
<title>Hungarian Translation of the Webpages</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gábor</given>
<common>Kövesdán</common>
</name>
<email>gabor@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Giorgos</given>
<common>Keramidas</common>
</name>
<email>keramida@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/hu/">Hungarian webpages</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Gábor Kövesdán (gabor@) has submitted the Hungarian translation
of the webpages and Giorgos Keramidas (keramida@) has reviewed and
committed the pages. The initial rendering issues have also been
fixed and the webpage is in a pretty good shape now.</p>
<p>As usual, this translation does not contain every part of the
English version, but the most important and useful parts are there.
Gábor will maintain this translation and regularly sync the content
with the English version and add new translations if such become
available.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Fix typos and mistakes that will be revealed after a deeper
review by the public</task>
<task>Get more people involved</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='drv'>
<title>Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN Driver: wpi</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Benjamin</given>
<common>Close</common>
</name>
<email>benjsc@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://perforce.FreeBSD.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/benjsc/wpi" />
<url href="http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/wpi" />
</links>
<body>
<p>An initial port of the NetBSD wpi driver has been done and
development is happening fast to get this driver ready for the
tree. At present basic functionality works. The driver can
associate with a non encrypted peer and pass data in 11b and 11g
modes. There is still lots to do and testing is welcome.</p>
<p>Many thanks have to go to Sam, Max and Kip for helping the
driver reach this point.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Solve bus dma alignment issues</task>
<task>Support WEP and WPA</task>
<task>Testing and more testing</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>iSCSI Initiator</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Daniel</given>
<common>Braniss</common>
</name>
<email>danny@cs.huji.ac.il</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.0.1.tar.bz2" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Though it is still a work in progress, it now supports more
targets, has login CHAP authentication and header/data digest. It
will also recover from a lost connection - most of the time.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>instrumentation</task>
<task>task management support</task>
<task>improve the error recovery</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale MPC8555</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Rafal</given>
<common>Jaworowski</common>
</name>
<email>raj@semihalf.com</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marcel</given>
<common>Moolenaar</common>
</name>
<email>xcllnt@mac.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>Platform summary:
<ul>
<li>PowerQuiccIII integrated controller</li>
<li>e500 CPU core</li>
<li>compliant with PowerPC BookE specification (significantly
different from the 'traditional' PowerPC architecture the current
FreeBSD/powerpc supports, particularly in the areas of MMU
design, exceptions model, specific e500 machine instructions
etc.)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>Currently the machine is booting FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 and
operating both single- and multi-user modes; below are highlights
of available functionality:
<ol>
<li>Low-level support</li>
<ul>
<li>booting from U-Boot bootloader</li>
<li>locore machine initialization</li>
<li>e500 exceptions</li>
<li>VM: a new pmap module developed</li>
</ul>
<li>On-chip peripherals</li>
<ul>
<li>introduced ocpbus hierarchy (nexus and descendants)</li>
<li>interrupt controller: using generic OpenPIC driver</li>
<li>serial console: using uart(4) driver</li>
<li>barebones serial support using the QUICC's SCC</li>
<li>host/PCI bridge: a new driver developed for the built-in
bridge</li>
<li>networking: a new driver developed for TSEC (3-speed
Ethernet)</li>
</ul>
<li>Booting</li>
<ul>
<li>from ATA disk and USB memory stick (both through a
secondary PCI VIA82C686B controller)</li>
<li>from network (NFS-mounted rootfs)</li>
</ul>
<li>Basic TCP/IP protocols and apps work (DHCP, NFS, SSH, FTP,
Telnet etc.)</li>
<li>Userland</li>
<ul>
<li>integrated SoftFloat emulation lib (required due to e500
not being equipped with the old-style PowerPC FPU)</li>
<li>almost all applications seem to work</li>
</ul>
</ol>
</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Work out extensible layout for sys/powerpc architecture
directory so we can easily add support for new core variations and
platforms to come in the future.</task>
<task>Integrate with FreeBSD source tree.</task>
<task>Release and tinderbox related options and settings.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Network Stack Virtualization</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marko</given>
<common>Zec</common>
</name>
<email>zec@fer.hr</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The network stack virtualization project aims at extending the
FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of
networking state. This will allow for complete networking
independence between jails on a system, including giving each jail
its own firewall, virtual network interfaces, rate limiting,
routing tables, and IPSEC configuration.</p>
<p>The prototype currently virtualizes the basic INET and INET6
kernel structures and subsystems, including the TCP machinery and
the IPFW firewall. The focus is currently being kept on resolving
bugs and sporadic lockups, and defining the internal and management
APIs. It is expected that within the next month the code will
become sufficiently complete and stable for testing by early
adopters.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>BSNMP Bridge Module</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Shteryana</given>
<common>Shopova</common>
</name>
<email>syrinx@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SnmpBridgeModule" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The BSNMP bridge module for FreeBSD's BSNMP daemon, which was
implemented during SoC 2006, was committed to HEAD. In addition to
RFC 4188 single bridge support it also supports monitoring multiple
bridges via a private MIB. Since SoC 2006 Rapid Spanning Tree
(RSTP) support (RSTP-MIB defined in RFC4318 and additions to the
private MIB) was added to the module as well.</p>
<p>A patch for RELENG_6 is available and will be merged to STABLE
the next weeks.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>MFC to RELENG_6.</task>
<task>More feedback from users is always welcome.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>BSNMP Client Tools</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Shteryana</given>
<common>Shopova</common>
</name>
<email>syrinx@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bjoern A.</given>
<common>Zeeb</common>
</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BsnmpTools">Wiki Page</url>
<url
href="http://perforce.FreeBSD.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/syrinx/ bsnmp/contrib/bsnmp/snmptools">
Shteryana's P4 tree</url>
<url
href="http://perforce.FreeBSD.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/bz/ bsnmp%5fsyrinx/usr.sbin/bsnmpd/tools">
Bjoern's P4 tree (rewrite)</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>During SoC 2005 BSNMP client tools (bsnmptools) were implemented
and have since then been available via Shteryana's P4 tree or port
net-mgmt/bsnmptools.</p>
<p>In order to finally get the code committed some cleanup was
needed which ended in a partly rewrite to minimize duplicate code
and to reduce the size of the binaries. This ongoing work is
available via Bjoern's P4 tree and will be merged back to upstream
trees before it will be committed to HEAD.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Update Wiki Page to reflect latest work.</task>
<task>Finish cleanup and have it reviewed.</task>
<task>User feedback is always welcome.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>BSNMP - More Ongoing and Upcoming Work</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Shteryana</given>
<common>Shopova</common>
</name>
<email>syrinx@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Harti</given>
<common>Brandt</common>
</name>
<email>harti@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bjoern A.</given>
<common>Zeeb</common>
</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BsnmpTODO">BSNMP TODO Wiki
page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>In addition to other more detailed reports this is intended to
give a summary about other ongoing or upcoming BSNMP related work.
To collect some ideas from users and coordinate work a BSNMP TODO
Wiki page was created. Feel free to add your ideas or let us know
about them.</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li>A contributor, Tsvetan Erenditsov, has volunteered to
implement a VLAN module for BSNMP. Shteryana is helping
him.</li>
<li>Sam Leffler has asked for a wireless networking monitoring
module, which will most likely be the next module to be
implemented.</li>
<li>Some major work is currently going on in the main BSNMP
tree:
<ul>
<li>SNMP transports have been factored out into loadable
modules. The old port tables are still there and will remain
at least for the next release. Later they will be removed.
The following modules and transports are already implemented
as loadable modules:
<ul>
<li>snmp_trans_udp: SNMP over UDP over IPv4, IPv6 and
scoped IPv6</li>
<li>snmp_trans_tcp: SNMP over TCP over IPv4, IPv6 and
scoped IPv6</li>
<li>snmp_trans_ldgram: SNMP over local datagram
sockets</li>
<li>snmp_trans_lstream: SNMP over local stream sockets</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Some I/O functions have been moved from the daemon to
libbsnmp.</li>
<li>libisa has been imported into the bsnmp tree. This
library aims at easy implementation of command line tools for
remote and local system administration with a special focus
on administration via SNMP. The library contains command line
parsing functions, a function for automatically handling help
text. Actual administration modules are implemented as
loadable modules. The atmconfig tool in the FreeBSD tree
contains some old parts of this library.</li>
<li>lisa_snmp is a module which implements SNMP functionality
for libisa.</li>
<li>lisa_snmpd is a module for remote administration of the
bsnmpd.</li>
<li>The config file parser of bsnmpd has been rewritten so
that each section of the file is handled as a transaction (in
contrast to the previous behavior where the entire file was
one transaction).</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>Release Engineering</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Release Engineering Team</given>
</name>
<email>re@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The recent activities of the Release Engineering team have
centered around FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, which is now available for
downloading. This is the latest release from the RELENG_6 branch,
and includes many new performance and stability improvements, bug
fixes, and new features. The release notes and errata notes for
FreeBSD 6.2 contain more specific information about what's new in
this version. We thank the FreeBSD developer and user community for
their efforts towards making this release possible.</p>
<p>The Release Engineering Team also produced snapshots of FreeBSD
CURRENT in November 2006 and January 2007. These snapshots have not
received extensive testing, and should not be used in production
environments. However, they can be used for testing or
experimentation, and show the kinds of functionality that can be
expected in future FreeBSD releases.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>Libelf</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Joseph</given>
<common>Koshy</common>
</name>
<email>jkoshy@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/LibElf">Wiki page tracking
LibELF</url>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/PmcTools">Wiki page for
PmcTools</url>
<url
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement/">
PMC Tools Project</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Libelf is a BSD-licensed library for ELF parsing &
manipulation implementing the SysV/SVR4 (g)ELF[3] API.</p>
<p>Current status: The library is now in -CURRENT. Work continues
on its test suite and tutorial, and on deploying it in
PmcTools.</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>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/nl/books/handbook" />
<url href="http://www.evilcoder.org/content/section/6/39/" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD-nl.org/doc/nl/" />
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD-nl.org/www/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project is an ongoing project to
translate the FreeBSD Handbook to the Dutch Language.</p>
<p>Currently we almost translated the entire handbook, and we
translated parts of the website, sadly the project went into a
slush lately, so we seek out for fresh and new translators that are
willing to join the team to continue the effort.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Translate the rest of the handbook</task>
<task>Make the documentation up to date</task>
<task>Translate the rest of the website</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>FreeBSD GNOME Project</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>FreeBSD</given>
<common>GNOME Project</common>
</name>
<email>gnome@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Where have we been?! Not doing status reports, that's for sure.
But the FreeBSD GNOME project has been very busy with regular GNOME
releases, and other side projects. We are currently shipping GNOME
2.16.2 in the ports tree, and we are testing GNOME 2.17.5 in the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html">
MarcusCom</a>
tree.</p>
<p>Most recently, work has completed on a cleanup of the FreeBSD
backend to libgtop. This module has needed a lot of work, and
should now be reporting correct system statistics. The cleaned up
version is currently being tested in the MarcusCom tree, and will
make it into the FreeBSD ports tree along with GNOME 2.18.</p>
<p>The GStreamer framework has been taken out of direct
<a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome">
gnome@</a>
maintainership, and put under a new
<a
href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia">
multimedia@</a>
umbrella. This will give multimedia-savvy developers a chance to
collaborate on this important piece of the GNOME Desktop along with
other important audio and video components.</p>
<p>The biggest accomplishment of 2006 for the FreeBSD GNOME team
had to have been the port of
<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal">HAL</a>
. This effort was started to give FreeBSD users a richer desktop
experience. Since the initial FreeBSD release of HAL with GNOME
2.16, it has been incorporated into the FreeBSD release of KDE
3.5.5 as well as PC-BSD 1.3. The FreeBSD backend has also made it
upstream into the HAL git repository so future releases of HAL will
have FreeBSD support out-of-the-box.</p>
<p>Finally, it is with sadness that we say good-bye to one of our
team members. Adam Weinberger stepped down from the FreeBSD GNOME
team to save lives instead (priorities, man!). His splash screens
and grammar nit-picking will be missed.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Now that HAL has been ported to FreeBSD, there is a strong
desire to see
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">
NetworkManager</a>
ported. The big parts will be porting NM to use our 80211
framework, and extending some of the base utilities such as
ifconfig. Contact
<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>
if you are interested in helping.</task>
<task>Our system-tools-backends module needs some attention. This
module is responsible for system configuration tasks in GNOME such
as user management, network shares administration, etc. A knowledge
of Perl is highly recommended. Contact
<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>
if you are interested in helping.</task>
<task>We need good documentation writers to help update our
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html">FAQ</a>
and other documentation. If you would like to take on the
responsibility full-time, or just contribute some pieces, please
notify
<a href="mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org">gnome@FreeBSD.org</a>
.</task>
<task>We are always in need of GNOME development testers. See our
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html">
development branch FAQ</a>
for ways on how you can help make the next release of GNOME the
best release.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>ipfw NAT and libalias</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Paolo</given>
<common>Pisati</common>
</name>
<email>piso@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>Support for in-kernel NAT, redirect and LSNAT for ipfw was
committed to HEAD, and i encourage people to test it so we can
quickly discover/fix bugs.</p>
<p>To add these features to ipfw, compile a new kernel adding
"options IPFIREWALL_NAT" to your kernel config or, in case you use
modules, add "CFLAGS += -DIPFIREWALL_NAT" to your make.conf.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Teach libalias to handle mbufs (this will fix TSO-capable
NICs).</task>
<task>Add support for hardware checksum offloading.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Interrupt Filtering</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Paolo</given>
<common>Pisati</common>
</name>
<email>piso@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>John</given>
<common>Baldwin</common>
</name>
<email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Scott</given>
<common>Long</common>
</name>
<email>scottl@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Interrupts" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Interrupt filtering is a new method to handle interrupts in
FreeBSD that retains backward compatibility with the previous
models (FAST and ITHREAD), while improving over them in some
aspects. With interrupt filtering, the interrupt handler is divided
into 2 parts: the filter (that checks if the actual interrupt
belongs to a device) and a private per-handler ithread (that is
scheduled in case some blocking work has to be done). The main
benefits of this work are:
<ul>
<li>Feedback from filters (the operating system finally knows
what's the state of an event and can react consequently).</li>
<li>Lower latency/overhead for shared interrupt line.</li>
<li>Previous experiments with interrupt filtering showed an
increase in performance against the plain ithread model in some
cases.</li>
<li>General shrink of the machine dependent code - part of the
interrupting handling code was turned into machine independent
code.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>During the last quarter many improvements were made up to the
point where 3 archs (i386, amd64 and arm) are reported to work, and
the project can be considered feature complete.</p>
<p>I definitely want to make it part of the 7.0 release.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Define a road map to commit the code into the tree.</task>
<task>Rethink the interrupt stray handling (?!?!).</task>
<task>Finish off support for powerpc, sparc64 and ia64 (sun4v
support is known to be broken now).</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>FreeBSD Bugbusting Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Mark</given>
<common>Linimon</common>
</name>
<email>linimon@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ceri</given>
<common>Davies</common>
</name>
<email>ceri@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Remko</given>
<common>Lodder</common>
</name>
<email>remko@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/articles/pr-guidelines/" />
<url
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The FreeBSD Bugbusting team is a team of volunteers keeping
track of various PR tickets in the GNATS application. Currently the
Bugbusting team is investigating old PR tickets, checking whether
they are still accurate, checking what needs to be done to fix the
issues reported and make sure that the developers team can focus on
the latest releases.</p>
<p>The team is always in need of volunteers willing to give a hand
to resolve the old tickets and get the best feedback that is needed
for the open tickets.</p>
<p>Please contact
<a href="mailto:FreeBSD-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org">
FreeBSD-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org</a>
if you want more information about the things that need to be
done.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Checkout old PR tickets, getting the proper feedback and
finally fix and/or resolve the tickets.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org">The FreeBSD
Foundation</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation ended 2006 raising over $100,000. We
received commitments for another $55,000 in donations for the Fall
Fundraiser. We fell short of our goal of raising $200,000. But, we
are working hard to fill this gap, early in 2007, so we can
continue with the same level of support for the project and
community. Please go to
<a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/</a>
to find out how to make a donation to the foundation.</p>
<p>We added a donors page to our website to acknowledge our
generous donors. We negotiated and are now actively managing a
joint technology project with NLNet and the University of Zagreb to
develop virtualized network stack support for FreeBSD. We sponsored
AsiaBSDCon and are now accepting travel grant applications for this
conference.</p>
<p>We are working to upgrade the project's network testbed with
10Gigabit interconnects. Cisco has generously donated a 10Gigabit
switch and we have received network adapters from Myricom,
Neterion, Intel, and Chelsio. Adapters from other vendors are being
solicited so that we can do interoperability testing.</p>
<p>For more information on what we've been up to, check out our
end-of-year newsletter at
<a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2006Dec-newsletter.shtml">
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2006Dec-newsletter.shtml</a>
.</p>
</body>
</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 16347. The PR count, despite a
jump, has gone back down to around 700.</p>
<p>Not much work has been committed on the ports infrastructure due
to the long 6.2 release cycle. However, many test runs have been
done for several upcoming features, such as making sure that ports
will work with the new release of gcc (4.1), and do not have
/usr/X11R6 hard-coded into them. The intention of the latter is to
move all ports to $LOCALBASE, which can then be selected by the
user. This should help consistency going forwards, albeit at the
cost of a one-time conversion.</p>
<p>GNOME was updated to 2.16 during the release cycle.</p>
<p>In addition, we are in the process of moving the FORTRAN default
from f77 to gfortran. See the ports mailing list for details.</p>
<p>The new xorg ports are still being worked on as well; they are
intended to all live in $LOCALBASE. Hopefully this can get done in
the early 6.3 development cycle. See the wiki for more
information.</p>
<p>A new version of the ports Tinderbox code is available, which is
mostly a bugfix release.</p>
<p>We have also added Pav Lucistnik as a new portmgr member, who we
hope will help us work on the portmgr PR backlog. Welcome!</p>
<p>We have also added 8 new committers since the last report.</p>
<p>linimon continues to work on resetting committers who are no
longer interested in their ports; as well, several ports commit
bits have been stored for safekeeping. This is part of an attempt
to keep the best match between volunteers and work to be done.</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 many
unmaintained ports. As well, the packages on amd64 and sparc64 are
lagging behind.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>FreeBSD Security Officer and Security Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Security</given>
<common>Officer</common>
</name>
<email>security-officer@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Security</given>
<common>Team</common>
</name>
<email>security-team@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/" />
<url
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/administration.html#t-secteam" />
<url href="http://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>In the time since the last status report, four security
advisories have been issued concerning problems in the base system
of FreeBSD (three in 2006 and one in 2007); of these, one problem
was in "contributed" code, while the remaining three were in code
maintained within FreeBSD. The Vulnerabilities and Exposures Markup
Language (VuXML) document has continued to be updated by the
Security Team and Ports Committers documenting new vulnerabilities
in the FreeBSD Ports Collection; since the last status report, 55
new entries have been added, bringing the total up to 869.</p>
<p>In order to streamline security team operations and ensure that
incoming emails are promptly acknowledged, Remko Lodder has been
appointed the security team secretary.</p>
<p>The following FreeBSD releases are supported by the FreeBSD
Security Team: FreeBSD 4.11, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.0, FreeBSD 6.1,
and FreeBSD 6.2. The respective End of Life dates of supported
releases are listed on the web site; of particular note, FreeBSD
4.11 and FreeBSD 6.0 will cease to be supported at the end of
January 2007.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Cryptographic Subsystem</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sam</given>
<common>Leffler</common>
</name>
<email>sam@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>Michael Richardson has been spearheading work to improve the
crypto subsystem used by various parts of the kernel including Fast
IPSec and geli. This work is sponsored by Hifn and has been
happening outside the CVS repository. A main focus of this work is
to add support for higher-level hardware operations that can
significantly improve the performance of IPSec and SSL
protocols.</p>
<p>Results of this work are now being readied for CVS. These
redesign the core/driver APIs to use the kobj facilities and recast
software crypto drivers as pseudo devices. The changes greatly
improve the system and permit new functionality such as specifying
which crypto device to use when multiple are available. The
redesign will also enable load balancing of crypto work across
multiple devices and the addition of virtual crypto sessions by
which small operations can be done in software when the overhead to
set up a hardware device is too costly.</p>
<p>In addition to the changes to the core crypto system several
crypto drivers have been updated to improve their operation. Top of
this list is the hifn(4) driver where many longstanding bugs have
been fixed for 7955/756 parts.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>ARM/XScale Port</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Olivier</given>
<common>Houchard</common>
</name>
<email>cognet@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sam</given>
<common>Leffler</common>
</name>
<email>sam@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>FreeBSD is running multi-user on a variety of Gateworks Avila
boards with most of the on-board devices supported. These include
the compact flash/IDE slot, wired network interfaces, realtime
clock, and environmental sensors. Several different minipci cards
have been tested including those supported by the ath(4) and
hifn(4) drivers. Remaining devices that need support are the
onboard flash, optional 4-port network switch, and optional USB
interface. Crypto acceleration for IXP425 parts is planned but will
likely be done at a later time.</p>
<p>The Network Processor Engine (NPE) support is done with an
entirely new replacement for the Intel Access Layer (IAL). The most
important hardware facilities are supported (e.g. the hardware Q
manager) and the wired NIC driver was also done from scratch. The
resulting code is approximately 1/10th the number of lines of the
equivalent IAL code.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Bootstrap support needs work to enable booting from the
compact flash device.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Porting ZFS to FreeBSD</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Pawel Jakub</given>
<common>Dawidek</common>
</name>
<email>pjd@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://perforce.FreeBSD.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/pjd/zfs">
Source code.</url>
<url href="http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/">
ZFS porting site.</url>
<url
href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060822104516.GB16033">
ZFS port announce.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The ZFS file system works quite well on FreeBSD now. The first
patchset has already been published on the
<a herf="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs">
freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org mailing list</a>
.</p>
<p>All file system methods are already implemented (except
ACL-related). Basically all stress tests I tried work, even under
very high load. There is still a problem with memory allocation,
which can get out of control, but from what I know the SUN guys
also work on this.</p>
<p>Recently I have been working on a file system regression test
suite. From what I found, there are no such test suites for free.
I've already more than 3000 tests and I'm testing correctness of
most file system related syscalls (chflags, chmod, chown, link,
mkdir, mkfifo, open, rename, rmdir, symlink, truncate, unlink). I'm
also working to make it usable on other operating systems (like
Solaris, where it already works and Linux).</p>
<p>Few days ago I also (almost) finished NFS support. You can't use
the 'zfs share' command yet, but you can export file systems via
/etc/exports and you can also access snapshots. It was quite hard,
because snapshots are separate file systems and after exporting the
main file system, we need to also serve data from snapshots under
it.</p>
<p>The one big thing which is missing is ACL support. This is not
an easy task, because we first have to make some decisions.
Currently we use POSIX ACLs in our UFS, but the market is moving
slowly to NTFS/NFSv4-type ACLs. In Solaris they use POSIX ACLs for
UFS and NFSv4-type ACLs for ZFS and we probably also want to use
NFSv4-type ACLs in our ZFS, which requires some work outside
ZFS.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>TrustedBSD priv(9)</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</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>TrustedBSD priv(9) replaces suser(9) as an in-kernel interface
for checking privilege in FreeBSD 7.x. Each privilege check now
takes a specific named privilege. This allows both centralization
of jail logic relating to privilege, which is currently distributed
around the kernel at the point of each call to suser(9), and allows
instrumentation of the privilege logic by the MAC Framework. Two
new MAC Framework entry points, one to grant and the other to limit
privilege, are now available, providing fine-grained control of
kernel privilege by policy modules. This lays the kernel
infrastructure groundwork for further refinement and extension of
the kernel privilege model. The priv(9) implementation has been
committed to FreeBSD 7-CURRENT.</p>
<p>This software was developed by Robert N. M. Watson for the
TrustedBSD Project under contract to nCircle Network Security,
Inc.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Complete review of kernel privilege checks, removal of
suser(9) jail flag now that checks are centralized.</task>
<task>Explore possible changes to kernel privilege model along
lines of POSIX.1e privileges, the Solaris privilege interface, etc.
This has been explored previously as part of the TrustedBSD
Capabilities project also.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>TrustedBSD MAC Framework</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Robert</given>
<common>Watson</common>
</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<email>trustedbsd-discuss@TrustedBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/mac.html">TrustedBSD
Project</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Most work on the MAC Framework during this period, other than as
relates to the priv(9) project described in a separate status
report, has been in refinement of the structure of the framework.
<ul>
<li>Add two new entry points allowing MAC Framework policy
modules to grant or limit fine-grained system privileges.</li>
<li>A sample mac_priv(4) policy module has been created
demonstrating how a MAC Framework policy module can grant
specific system privileges to specific users.</li>
<li>Commenting throughout the MAC Framework significantly
extended.</li>
<li>Correct a bug in which the original ifnet label was copied to
user space via ioctl, rather than the thread-local copy.</li>
<li>mac_enforce_subsystem debugging sysctls removed, as some
policies rely on access control checks being called even when
non-enforcing (specifically, information flow related
policies).</li>
<li>Break out mac.h include file into mac.h (user API, system
calls) and mac_framework.h (in-kernel interface to the MAC
Framework). Move non-user MAC include files from src/sys to
src/sys/security/mac. Move and break out kern_mac.c into
mac_framework.c and mac_syscalls.c. The MAC Framework is now
entirely located in src/sys/security/mac.</li>
<li>Export the MAC Framework version via a read-only sysctl and
provide a #define version usable by policies.</li>
<li>MAC Framework locking optimized to optimistically expect no
write lock contention during read locking.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Now that the MAC Framework has been fully moved to
src/sys/security/mac, embark on the 'mac2' interface cleanup, in
which many MAC Framework entry points are renamed for consistency.
This will require most MAC Framework policy modules to be modified
between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x, although in a way that can be
largely done using sed.</task>
<task>Add accessor functions for policies retrieving per-policy
label data from labels, so that policy modules do not compile in
the binary layout of struct label. This will allow future
optimization of the label layout.</task>
<task>Complete integration of audit and MAC support, allowing MAC
policy modules to control access to audit interfaces, and allowing
them to annotate audit records.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>TrustedBSD Audit</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Robert</given>
<common>Watson</common>
</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Christian</given>
<common>Peron</common>
</name>
<email>csjp@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Wayne</given>
<common>Salamon</common>
</name>
<email>wsalamon@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/audit.html">TrustedBSD Audit
Page</url>
<url href="http://www.OpenBSM.org/">OpenBSM Page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, the first release of FreeBSD with
experimental audit support is now available. The plan is to make
audit a full production feature as of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, with
"options AUDIT" compiled in by default. A TODO list has been posted
to trustedbsd-audit.</p>
<p>OpenBSM 1.0 alpha 13, which includes support for XML record
printing, additional 64-bit token types, additional audit events,
and more cross-platform build support, has been released. OpenBSM
1.0 alpha 14, which adds support for warnings clean building with
gcc 4.1, will be released shortly. The new OpenBSM release will be
merged to FreeBSD CVS in late January or early February.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Complete assignment of audit events to non-native and a few
remaining native system calls. Add additional system call argument
auditing.</task>
<task>Merge MAC Framework hooks allowing MAC modules to control
access to kernel audit services. Refine and merge MAC labeling
support in audit, including support for MAC annotations in the
audit trail.</task>
<task>Complete pass through user space services adding audit
support to system management tools (and ftpd). Work with third
party software maintainers to add audit support for applications
like xdm/kdm/gdm.</task>
<task>Merge latest OpenBSM, including XML output support.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>FAST_IPSEC Upgrade</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>George</given>
<common>Neville-Neil</common>
</name>
<email>gnn@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Bjoern</given>
<common>Zeeb</common>
</name>
<email>bz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~gnn/fast_ipv6.patch">Host only
patch</url>
<url href="http://blogs.FreeBSDish.org/gnn/">gnn's networking
blog</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Just this week I got routing working for the FAST_IPSEC and IPv6
code. Now there are memory smash problems, and then we need to
remove the old GIANT lock. I hope to produce another patch with the
routing code working in the next week.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Test the patch!!!!</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>Automatic TCP Send and Receive Socket Buffer Sizing</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Andre</given>
<common>Oppermann</common>
</name>
<email>andre@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andre/tcp_auto_buf-20061212.diff">
Patch against 7-CURRENT</url>
<url
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andre/tcp_auto_buf-20061212-RELENG_6.diff">
Patch against RELENG_6</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Normally the socket buffers are static (either derived from
global defaults or set with setsockopt) and do not adapt to real
network conditions. Two things happen: a) your socket buffers are
too small and you can't reach the full potential of the network
between both hosts; b) your socket buffers are too big and you
waste a lot of kernel memory for data just sitting around.</p>
<p>With automatic TCP send and receive socket buffers we can start
with a small buffer and quickly grow it in parallel with the TCP
congestion window to match real network conditions.</p>
<p>FreeBSD has a default 32K send socket buffer. This supports a
maximal transfer rate of only slightly more than 2Mbit/s on a 100ms
RTT trans-continental link. Or at 200ms just above 1Mbit/s. With
TCP send buffer auto scaling and the default values below it
supports 20Mbit/s at 100ms and 10Mbit/s at 200ms. That's an
improvement of factor 10, or 1000%. For the receive side it looks
slightly better with a default of 64K buffer size.</p>
<p>The automatic send buffer sizing patch is currently running on
one half of the FTP.FreeBSD.ORG cluster w/o any problems so far.
Against this machine with the automatic receive buffer sizing patch
I can download at 5.7 MBytes per second. Without patch it maxed out
at 1.6 MBytes per second as the delay bandwidth product became
equal to the static socket buffer size without hitting the limits
of the physical link between the machines. My test machine is about
35ms from that FTP.FreeBSD.ORG and connected through a moderately
loaded 100Mbit Internet link.</p>
<p>New sysctls are:
<ul>
<li>net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto=1 (enabled)</li>
<li>net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=8192 (8K, step size)</li>
<li>net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=262144 (256K, growth limit)</li>
<li>net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1 (enabled)</li>
<li>net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=16384 (16K, step size)</li>
<li>net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=262144 (256K, growth limit)</li>
</ul>
</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='net'>
<title>Wireless Networking</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sam</given>
<common>Leffler</common>
</name>
<email>sam@errno.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>Work on wireless support has continued to evolve in the public
CVS tree while other work has been going on behind the scenes in
the developer's perforce repository.</p>
<p>Support was recently added to HEAD for half- and quarter-rate
channels as found in the 4.9 GHz FCC Public Safety Band. This work
was a prerequisite to adding similar support in the 900 MHz band as
found in Ubiquiti's SR9 cards. Adding this functionality was
straightforward due to the design of the net80211 layer, requiring
only some additions to handle the unusual mapping between
frequencies and IEEE channel numbers. The ath(4) driver currently
supports hardware capable of operating on half- and quarter-rate
channels.</p>
<p>Kip Macy recently made significant advances preparing legacy
drivers for the re-architected net80211 layer that has been
languishing in perforce. With his efforts this code is nearly ready
for public testing after which it can be merged into CVS. Our goal
is to complete this merge in time for the 7.x branch (otherwise it
will be forced to wait for 8.0 before it appears in a public
release). This revised net80211 layer includes advanced station
mode facilities such as background scanning and roaming and support
for Atheros' SuperG extensions. Getting the revised scanning work
into CVS will greatly simplify public distribution of the Virtual
AP (VAP) code as a patch as well as enable addition of 802.11n
support.</p>
<p>Benjamin Close is working on support for the Intel 3945 parts
commonly found in laptops. The work is going on in the perforce
repository with public code drops for testing.</p>
<p>Atheros PCI/Cardbus support was updated with a new HAL that
fixes a few minor issues and corrects a problem that kept AR2424
parts from working. The new HAL also enables more efficient use of
the hardware keycache for TKIP keys; on newer hardware you can now
support up to 57 stations without faulting keys into the cache.
Support for the latest 802.11n parts found in the new Lenovo and
Apple laptops (among others) is in development; initial release
will support only legacy operation.</p>
<p>Support for Atheros USB devices is coming. Atheros has agreed to
license their firmware with the same license applied to the HAL
which means it can be committed to the tree and distributed as part
of releases. The driver is still in development.</p>
<p>wpa_supplicant and hostapd were updated to the latest stable
build releases from Jouni Malinen. Shortly the in-tree code base
will switch to the 0.5.x tree which will bring in much new
functionality including dynamic VLAN tagging that will be
especially useful once the multi-bss support is available.</p>
<p>The support for injection of raw 802.11 frames was committed to
HEAD. This work was done in collaboration with Andrea Bittau. At
this point there are no plans to commit this to the STABLE branch
as it requires API changes.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>EuroBSDCon 2007</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sidsel</given>
<common>Jensen</common>
</name>
<email>info@EuroBSDCon.dk</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://2007.EuroBSDCon.org/" />
<url href="http://www.EuroBSDCon.dk/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The sixth EuroBSDCon will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on
<strong>Friday the 14th and Saturday 15th of September
2007</strong>
. The conference will be held at
<a href="http://www.symbion.dk/">Symbion Science Park</a>
. Sunday the 16th there will be an optional tour to LEGOland.</p>
<p>The
<a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.html">call for papers</a>
was sent out right after EuroBSDCon 2006 in Milan in November and
abstracts are due February 1st! So hurry up and send in all your
fantastic and amazing papers to papers at eurobsdcon dot dk.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>
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