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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>July-September</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
September 2012. This is the third of the four reports planned for
2012.</p>
<p>Highlights from this quarter include successful participation in
Google Summer of Code, major work in areas of the source and
ports trees, and a Developer Summit attended by over 30
developers.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
</section>
<category>
<name>proj</name>
<description>Projects</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>team</name>
<description>&os; Team Reports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>kern</name>
<description>Kernel</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>docs</name>
<description>Documentation</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>ports</name>
<description>Ports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>misc</name>
<description>Miscellaneous</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>soc</name>
<description>&os; in Google Summer of Code</description>
</category>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>&os; on Altera FPGAs</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Brooks</given>
<common>Davis</common>
</name>
<email>brooks@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Robert</given>
<common>Watson</common>
</name>
<email>rwatson@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.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/">
CTSRD Project</url>
<url
href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri.html">
CHERI</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>In the course of developing the <a
href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri.html">
CHERI processor</a> as part of the <a
href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/">CTSRD
project</a> SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory and
the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have developed
support for a number of general purpose IP cores for Altera FPGAs
including the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet (ATSE) MAC core, the
Altera University Program SD Card core, and the Altera JTAG UART.
We have also added support for general access to memory mapped
devices on the Avalon bus via the avgen bus. We have implemented
both nexus and flattened device tree (FDT) attachments for these
devices.</p>
<p>In addition to these softcore we have developed support for
the Terasic multi-touch LCD and are working to provide support
for the Terasic HDMI Transmitter Daughter Card. Both of these
work with common development and/or reference boards for Altera
FPGAs. They do require additional IP cores which we plan to
release to the open source community in the near future.</p>
<p>With exception of the ATSE and HDMI drivers we have merged all
of these changes to &os;-CURRENT. We anticipate that these
drivers will be useful for users who with to run &os; on either
hard or soft core CPUs on Altera FPGAs.</p>
<p>This work has been sponsored by DARPA, AFRL, and Google.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Native iSCSI Target</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Edward Tomasz</given>
<common>Napierała</common>
</name>
<email>trasz@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>During the July-September time period, the Native iSCSI Target
project was officially started under sponsorship from the &os;
Foundation. Before the end of September I've written ctld(8), the
userspace part of the target, responsible for handling
configuration, accepting incoming connections, performing
authentication and iSCSI parameter negotiation, and handing off
connections to the kernel. For the time being, I've reused some
parts of protocol-handling code from the istgt project; since
ctld(8) only handles the Login phase, the code can be rewritten
in a much simpler and shorter way in the future.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Parallel rc.d execution</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Kuan-Chung</given>
<common>Chiu</common>
</name>
<email>buganini@gmail.com</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Kilian</given>
</name>
<email>kklimek@uos.de</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://github.com/buganini/rcexecr" />
<url href="https://github.com/kil/rcorder" />
</links>
<body>
<p>There are two implementations to make rc.d execution parallel.
Compared to Kil's rcorder, rcexecr brings more concurrence and
provides more flexibility than older "early_late_divider"
mechanism but require more invasive /etc patch. Both
implementations have switch to toggle parallel execution. Further
modification/integration needs more discussion.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Refine /etc/rc.d/* to eliminate unnecessary waiting.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>&os; Bugbusting Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Eitan</given>
<common>Adler</common>
</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gavin</given>
<common>Atkinson</common>
</name>
<email>gavin@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Oleksandr</given>
<common>Tymoshenko</common>
</name>
<email>gonzo@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#gnats" />
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/BugBusting" />
</links>
<body>
<p>In August, Eitan Adler (eadler@) and Oleksandr Tymoshenko
(gonzo@) joined the Bugmeister team. At the same time, Remko
Lodder and Volker Werth stepped down. We extend our thanks to
Volker and Remko for their work in the past, and welcome
Oleksandr and Eitan. Eitan and Oleksandr have been working hard
on migrating from GNATS, and have made significant progress on
evaluating new software, and creating scripts to export data
from GNATS.</p>
<p>The bugbusting team continue work on trying to make the
contents of the GNATS PR database cleaner, more accessible and
easier for committers to find and resolve PRs, by tagging PRs
to indicate the areas involved, and by ensuring that there is
sufficient info within each PR to resolve each issue.</p>
<p>As always, anybody interested in helping out with the PR
queue is welcome to join us in #freebsd-bugbusters on EFnet. We
are always looking for additional help, whether your interests
lie in triaging incoming PRs, generating patches to resolve
existing problems, or simply helping with the database
housekeeping (identifying duplicate PRs, ones that have already
been resolved, etc). This is a great way of getting more
involved with &os;!</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Further research into tools suitable to replace
GNATS.</task>
<task>Get more users involved with triaging PRs as they come
in.</task>
<task>Assist committers with closing PRs.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>The &os; Core Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Core Team</given>
</name>
<email>core@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>Along with the change in the Core Team membership, several
related roles changed hands. Gabor Pali assumed the role of core
secretary from Gavin Atkinson, and David Chisnall replaced Robert
Watson as liaison to the &os; Foundation. The Core Team felt
there was no longer a need for a formal security team liaison, so
that role was retired.</p>
<p>In the third quarter, the Core Team granted access for 2 new
committers and took 2 commit bits into safekeeping.</p>
<p>The Core Team worked with the Port Management Team and Cluster
Administrators to set a date to stop providing CVS exports for
the ports repository, which is February 28, 2013. In the
meantime, the CVS export for 9.1-RELEASE was restored.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>&os; Foundation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2012Jul-newsletter.shtml">
Semi-annual newsletter</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The Foundation hosted and sponsored the Cambridge &os;
developer summit in August 2012.</p>
<p>We were represented at the following conferences: OSCON July
2012, Texas LinuxFest, and Ohio LinuxFest.</p>
<p>We negotiated/supervised Foundation funded projects:
Distributed Security Audit Logging, Capsicum Component
Framework, Native iSCSI Target Scoping, and Growing UFS
Filesystems Online.</p>
<p>We negotiated, supervised, and funded hardware needs for
&os; co-location centers.</p>
<p>We welcomed Kirk McKusick to our board of directors. He took
over the responsibility of managing our investments.</p>
<p>We visited companies to discuss their &os; use and to help
facilitate collaboration with the Project.</p>
<p>We managed &os; vendor community mailing list and
meetings.</p>
<p>We created a high quality &os; 9 brochure to help promote
&os;.</p>
<p>Published our <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2012Jul-newsletter.shtml">
semi-annual newsletter</a> that highlighted Foundation
funded projects, travel grants for
developers, conferences sponsored and other ways the Foundation
supported the &os; Project.</p>
<p>We hired a technical writer to help with &os;
marketing/promotional material.</p>
<p>We began work on redesigning our website.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>&os; on ARMv6/ARMv7</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>freebsd-arm mailing list</given>
</name>
<email>freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>Support for ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture has been merged from
project branch to HEAD. This code covers the following parts:
<ul>
<li>General ARMv6/ARMv7 kernel bits (pmap, cache, assembler
routines, etc...)</li>
<li>ARM Generic Interrupt Controller driver</li>
<li>Improved thread-local storage for cpus >=ARMv6</li>
<li>Driver for SMSC LAN95XX and LAN8710A ethernet controllers</li>
<li>Marvell MV78x60 support (multiuser, ARMADA XP kernel config)</li>
<li>TI OMAP4 and AM335x support (multiuser, no GPU or graphics
support, kernel configs for Pandaboard and Beaglebone)</li>
<li>LPC32x0 support (multiuser, frame buffer works with SSD1289
LCD controller. Embedded Artists EA3250 kernel config)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>This work was a result of a joint effort by many people,
including but not limited to: Grzegorz Bernacki (gber@),
Aleksander Dutkowski, Ben R. Gray (bgray@), Olivier Houchard
(cognet@), Rafal Jaworowski (raj@) and Semihalf team, Tim
Kientzle (kientzle@), Jakub Wojciech Klama (jceel@), Ian Lepore
(ian@), Warner Losh (imp@), Damjan Marion (dmarion@), Lukasz
Plachno, Stanislav Sedov (stas@), Mark Tinguely and Andrew
Turner (andrew@). Thanks to all, who contributed by
submitting code, testing and giving valuable advice.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>More hardware bring-ups and more drivers</task>
<task>Finish SMP support</task>
<task>VFP/NEON support</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='docs'>
<title>The &os; Japanese Documentation Project</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Hiroki</given>
<common>Sato</common>
</name>
<email>hrs@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ryusuke</given>
<common>Suzuki</common>
</name>
<email>ryusuke@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ja/">Japanese &os; Web
Page</url>
<url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/doc-jp/">The &os; Japanese
Documentation Project Web Page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Web page (htdocs): Newsflash and some other updates in the
English version were translated to keep them up-to-date.
Especially "security incident on &os; infrastructure" was
translated and published in a timely manner.</p>
<p>&os; Handbook: Big update in the "advanced-networking". With
this update, merging translation results from the handbook in the
local repository of Japanese documentation project into the main
repository was completed. This chapter is still outdated and
needs more work. The other sections have also constantly been
updated. Especially, new subsection "Using pkgng for Binary
Package Management" was added to "ports" section and "Using
subversion" subsection was added to "mirrors" section.</p>
<p>Article: Some progress was made in "Writing &os; Problem
Reports" and "Writing &os; Problem Reports" articles.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Further translation work of outdated documents in the
<tt>ja_JP.eucJP</tt> subtree.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>KDE/&os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>KDE</given>
<common>FreeBSD</common>
</name>
<email>kde@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://FreeBSD.kde.org">KDE/&os; home page</url>
<url href="http://FreeBSD.kde.org/area51.php">area51</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The KDE/&os; team have continued to improve the experience of
KDE software and Qt under &os;. The latest round of improvements
include:
<ul>
<li>Fixes for building Qt with libc++ and C++11</li>
<li>Fixes for Solid-related crashes</li>
<li>Fix battery detection in battery monitor plasmoid</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>The team has also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes
and patches. The latest round of releases include:
<ul>
<li>KDE SC: 4.9.1 (area51) and 4.8.4 (ports)</li>
<li>Qt: 4.8.3 (area51)</li>
<li>PyQt: 4.9.4 (area51); QScintilla 2.6.2 (area51); SIP:
4.13.3 (area51)</li>
<li>Calligra: 2.4.3, 2.5-RC2, 2.5.0. 2.5.1, 2.5.2 (area51) and
2.4.3, 2.5.0, 2.5.1 (ports)</li>
<li>Amarok: 2.6.0 (area51)</li>
<li>CMake: 2.8.9 (ports)</li>
<li>Digikam (and KIPI-plugins): 2.7.0, 2.8.0, 2.9.0 (area51)
and 2.7.0, 2.9.0 (ports)</li>
<li>QtCreator: 2.6.0-beta (area51)</li>
<li>many smaller ports</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>The team is always looking for more testers and porters so
please contact us at kde@FreeBSD.org and visit our home page at
<a href="http://FreeBSD.kde.org">http://FreeBSD.kde.org</a>.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Please see 2012 Q4 Status Report</task>
<task>Updating out-of-date ports, see
<a href="http://portscout.FreeBSD.org/kde@freebsd.org.html">PortScout</a>
for a list</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Ports Collection</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Thomas</given>
<common>Abthorpe</common>
</name>
<email>portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Port</given>
<common>Management Team</common>
</name>
<email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/" />
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/" />
<url href="http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html" />
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" />
<url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/" />
<url href="http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/" />
<url href="http://www.facebook.com/portmgr" />
</links>
<body>
<p>The ports tree approaches 24,000 ports, while the PR count
still is above 1000.</p>
<p>In Q3 we added 2 new committers and took in two commits bit
for safe keeping.</p>
<p>The Ports Management team had performed multiple -exp runs,
verifying how base system updates may affect the ports tree,
as well as providing QA runs for major ports updates.</p>
<p>Beat Gaetzi took over the role of sending out fail mails, a
role that Pav Lucistnik had previously held. Beat also undertook
the task of converting the Ports tree from CVS to Subversion.</p>
<p>Florent Thoumie stepped down from his role on portmgr, he was
instrumental in maintaining the legacy pkg_* code.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on
testing, committing and closing.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>&os; Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Robert</given>
<common>Watson</common>
</name>
<email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201208DevSummit">Developer
Summit Home Page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>In the end of August, there was an "off-season" Developer
Summit held in Cambridge, UK at the University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory. This was a three-day event, with a
documentation summit scheduled for the day before. The three
days of the main event were split into three sessions, with two
tracks in each. Some of them even involved ARM developers from
the neighborhoods which proven to be productive, and led to
further engagement between the &os; community and ARM.</p>
<p>The schedule was finalized on the first day, spawning a
plethora of topics to discuss, followed by splitting into groups.
A short summary from each of the groups was presented in the
final session and then published at the event's home page on the
&os; wiki. This summit contributed greatly to arriving to a
tentative plan for throwing the switch to make clang the default
compiler on HEAD. This was further discussed on the mailing list,
and has now happened, bringing us one big step closer to a
GPL-free &os; 10. As part of the program, an afternoon of short
talks from researchers in the Cambridge Computer Laboratory
involved either operating systems work in general or &os; in
particular. Robert Watson showed off a tablet running &os; on a
MIPS-compatible soft-core processor running on an Altera
FPGA.</p>
<p>In association with the event, a dinner was hosted by St. John's
college and co-sponsored by Google and the &os; Foundation. The
day after the conference, a trip was organized to Bletchley Park,
which was celebrating Turing's centenary in 2012.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='soc'>
<title>Google Summer of Code 2012</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>
</given>
<common>&os; Summer of Code Administrators</common>
</name>
<email>soc-admins@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html">
FreeBSD Summer of Code page</url>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012">Summer of
Code 2012 projects</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Over the Summer of 2012, &os; were once again granted a
place to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. We
received a total of 32 project proposals, and were ultimately
given 15 slots for university students to work on open source
projects mentored by existing &os; developers.</p>
<p>We were able to accept a wide spread of proposals, covering
both the base system and the ports infrastructure. We had
students working on file systems, file integrity checking, and
parallelization in the ports collection. Students worked on
kernel infrastructure, including one project to support CPU
resource limits on users, processes and jails, and one student
improving the BSD callout(9) and timer facilities. Two students
worked on the ARM platform, widely used in embedded systems and
smart phones; one student worked on a significant cleanup and
improvements to the Flattened Device Tree implementation code,
while the other ported &os; to the OMAP3-based BeagleBoard-xM
device. One student worked on improving IPv6 support in
userland tools, whilst another worked on BIOS emulation for the
BHyVE BSD-licensed hypervisor, new in &os; 10. Other students
worked on EFI boot support, userland lock profiling and an
automated kernel crash reporting system.</p>
<p>Overall, a significant proportion of the code produced has
or will be integrated into &os; in one form or another. All of
the work is available in our Summer Of Code Subversion
repository, and some of the work has already been merged back
into the main repositories.</p>
<p>&os; is once again grateful to Google for being selected to
participate in Summer of Code 2012.</p>
</body>
</project>
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