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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
<report>
<date>
<month>October-December</month>
<year>2012</year>
</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>This report covers &os;-related projects between October and
December 2012. This is the last of four reports planned for 2012.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering the period between January
and March 2013 is April 21st, 2013.</p>
</section>
<category>
<name>proj</name>
<description>Projects</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>bin</name>
<description>Userland Programs</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>team</name>
<description>&os; Team Reports</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>kern</name>
<description>Kernel</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>net</name>
<description>Network Infrastructure</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>docs</name>
<description>Documentation</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='proj'>
<title>&os; on BeagleBone</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Tim</given>
<common>Kientzle</common>
</name>
<email>kientzle@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Oleksandr</given>
<common>Tymoshenko</common>
</name>
<email>gonzo@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Damjan</given>
<common>Marion</common>
</name>
<email>dmarion@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Brett</given>
<common>Wynkoop</common>
</name>
<email>wynkoop@wynn.com</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; on BeagleBone is benefiting from the general work on ARM
stability being done by many people, and is proving to be a nice
testbed for our ARMv7 support. All ongoing work is happening now
directly in -CURRENT and we expect it to be in pretty good shape
by the time 10.0 ships.</p>
<p>The network driver is now pretty stable; the system should be
useful as a small network device.</p>
<p>Occasional system snapshots are being built and advertised for
people to test. Ask on freebsd-arm@ if you'd like to try the
newest one.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>We need someone to finish the USB driver. Ask if you'd like
to take this over.</task>
<task>MMCSD performance is still rather poor.</task>
<task>There's been discussion of how to improve the GPIO
configuration and pinmux handling to simplify hardware
experimentation. If we had more people to help build drivers, we
could start supporting some of the BeagleBone capes.</task>
<task>Mostly we just need people to use it and report any issues
they encounter.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>BHyVe</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Neel</given>
<common>Natu</common>
</name>
<email>neel@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Peter</given>
<common>Grehan</common>
</name>
<email>grehan@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BHyVe" />
<url href="http://www.bhyve.org/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>BHyVe is a type-2 hypervisor for &os;/amd64 hosts with Intel
VT-x and EPT CPU support. The bhyve project branch was merged
into CURRENT on Jan 18. Work is progressing on performance, ease
of use, AMD SVM support, and being able to run non-&os; operating
systems.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>1. Booting Linux/*BSD/Windows</task>
<task>2. Moving the codebase to a more modular design consisting
of a small base and loadable modules</task>
<task>3. Various hypervisor features such as suspend/resume/live
migration/sparse disk support</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>BSD-licenced patch(1)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Pedro</given>
<common>Giffuni</common>
</name>
<email>pfg@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gabor</given>
<common>Kovesdan</common>
</name>
<email>gabor@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Xin</given>
<common>Li</common>
</name>
<email>delphij@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://code.google.com/p/bsd-patch/">Home for BSD
patch (deprecated)</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; has been using for a while a very old version of GNU
patch that is partially under the GPLv2. The original GNU patch
utility is based on an initial implementation by Larry Wall that
was not actually copyleft. OpenBSD did many enhancements to an
older non-copyleft version of patch, this version was later
adopted and further refined by DragonFlyBSD and NetBSD but there
was no centralized development of the tool and &os; kept working
independently. In less than a week we took the version in
DragonFlyBSD and adapted the &os; enhancements to make it behave
nearer to the version used natively in &os;. Most of the work was
done by Pedro Giffuni, adapting patches from sepotvin@ and ed@,
and additional contributions were done by Christoph Mallon, Gabor
Kovesdan and Xin Li. As a result of this we now have a new
version of patch committed in head/usr.bin/patch that you can try
by using WITH_BSD_PATCH in your builds. The new patch(1) doesn't
support the &os;-specific -I and -S options which don't seem
necessary. In GNU patch -I actually means 'ignore whitespaces'
and we now support it too.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Testing. A lot more testing.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Common Flash Interface (CFI) driver improvements</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Brooks</given>
<common>Davis</common>
</name>
<email>brooks@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>The Common Flash Interface provides a common programming
interface for a wide range of NOR flash devices commonly found in
embedded systems. I have developed a number of improvements to
the cfi(4) device when used on Intel StrataFlash parts.
Unnecessary erase cycles are now avoided, devices that require
single word writes only write changed words, and multi-word
writes are supported for Intel and Sharp devices. Additionally
the timeout code has been reworked and no longer imposes unneeded
latency on operations taking less than 100us. With all of these
changes streaming write speed has improved by more than an order
of magnitude. Once these changes are reviewed they will be
committed to HEAD.</p>
<p>This work was sponsored by DARPA and AFRL.</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 October-December time period, the Native iSCSI
Target project progressed to the working prototype stage. Most of
this time was spent writing kernel-based part, an iSCSI frontend
to the CAM Target Layer. The frontend handles iSCSI Full Feature
phase after ctld(8) hands off the connection. The istgt-derived
code in ctld(8) was rewritten from scratch; now it's much shorter
and more readable. The ctladm(8) utility gained iSCSI-specific
subcommands to handle tasks such as listing iSCSI sessions or
forcing disconnection. The target works correctly with the &os;
initiator.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat="proj">
<title>NFS Version 4</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Rick</given>
<common>Macklem</common>
</name>
<email>rmacklem@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>The NFSv4.1 client, including support for pNFS for the Files
Layout only, has now been committed to head/current. Work on
NFSv4.1 server support has just been started and will hopefully
be ready for head/current this summer. The client side disk
caching of delegated files is progressing and the code is under
projects/nfsv4-packrats in the subversion repository. Someone is
working on server side referrals and, as such, I hope this might
make it into 10.0 as well.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Unprivileged install and image creation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Brooks</given>
<common>Davis</common>
</name>
<email>brooks@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>In order to make it easier to build releases and embedded
system disk images I have been adding infrastructure to allow
the install and packaging stages to the &os; build progress to
run without root privilege. To this end I have added two
options to the toplevel build system: The
<tt>-DDB_FROM_SRC</tt> option allows the install to proceed
when the required set of passwd and group entires does not
match the host system. The <tt>-DNO_ROOT</tt> option causes
files to be installed as the running user and for metadata such
as owner, group, suid bits, and file flags to be logged in a
<tt>${DESTDIR}/METALOG</tt> file.</p>
<p>This work required the import of NetBSD's <tt>mtree</tt> and
the addition of a number of features from NetBSD to
<tt>install</tt>. I have added all &os; features to NetBSD's
<tt>mtree</tt> and imported it as <tt>nmtree</tt>. Before &os;
10.0 is released I will replace our version. I have also added
all required features to <tt>install</tt>. Changes to
<tt>makefs</tt> were required to parse the contents of the
<tt>METALOG</tt> file.</p>
<p>These new features required importing new versions of the
pwcache(3) and vis(3) APIs from NetBSD so those portions of
libc.</p>
<p>In addition to modifying build infrastructure to use the new
features of <tt>mtree</tt> and <tt>install</tt>. I corrected a
number of cases of files being installed by programs other than
<tt>install</tt> or being installed more than once. A few known
instances of duplicate directories in the output exist, but the
results are usable in some contexts.</p>
<p>I plan to MFC these changes as far back as the stable/8
branch to make it possible to build all supported releases
without root privilege.</p>
<p>This work was sponsored by DARPA and AFRL.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Add support for <tt>-DNO_ROOT</tt> to
<tt>src/release/Makefile</tt> so that releases can be built
without root privilege.</task>
<task>Create a tool to install partition tables and file system
images in disk image files without the use of <tt>mdctl</tt>,
<tt>gpart</tt>, and <tt>dd</tt>.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>SMP-Friendly pf(4)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gleb</given>
<common>Smirnoff</common>
</name>
<email>glebius@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>The project is aimed at moving the pf(4) packet filter out of
a single mutex, as well as in general improving of the &os; port.
The project has reached its main goal. The pf(4) is no longer
covered by single mutex and contention on network stack on pf(4)
is now very low. The code is production ready. The projects/pf
branch had been merged to the head branch and will be available
in 10.0-RELEASE.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>&os; on Raspberry Pi</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Oleksandr</given>
<common>Tymoshenko</common>
</name>
<email>gonzo@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; is running on Raspberry Pi and supports the following
peripherals:</p>
<ul>
<li>USB controller</li>
<li>SDHC controller</li>
<li>Network</li>
<li>Framebuffer (HDMI and composite)</li>
<li>GPIO</li>
<li>VCHI interface</li>
</ul>
<p>Videocore tests (OpenGL, video decoding, audio, display access)
work with current VCHI driver implementation.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Add DMA mode support to USB driver. Some proof-of-concept
code is done but more work required to finish it.</task>
<task>Re-implement VCHI driver with more &os;-friendly
locking.</task>
<task>Implement more drivers: SPI, PWM, audio.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>pxe_http -- booting &os; from apache</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Sean</given>
<common>Bruno</common>
</name>
<email>sbruno@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/user/sbruno/pxe_http_head/">
svn repo of project</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Currently works with VirtualBox VMs and Apache 2.2 port.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Lots and lots of compile warnings exist with clang and gcc.
This really needs to be investigated.</task>
<task>Better support for other webservers. Currently needs Apache
to work.</task>
<task>Needs another pass at basic documentation. Current
documentation is actually quite good from the original</task>
<task>Network stack needs audit. I'm not sure if the
HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP code is original or based on something
else.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>UEFI</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Benno</given>
<common>Rice</common>
</name>
<email>benno@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/UEFI" />
<url href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/projects/uefi/" />
</links>
<body>
<p>There is code in the projects/uefi branch that can build a
working 64-bit loader for UEFI. This loader can load a kernel and
boot to a mountroot prompt on a serial console on a system with
≤ 1GB of RAM. Full multiuser has not yet been tested. Work is
progressing towards having a working syscons. The issue
preventing boot on systems with > 1GB of RAM has not yet been
found. UEFI-compatible boot media can be generated using in-tree
tools, however there are issues with detecting the CD filesystem
and using it as the load default. The 64-bit UEFI loader can load
a 32-bit kernel but currently cannot hand over to it due to a
lack of code to switch to 32-bit mode. Further research is
required into Secure Boot.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>bsdconfig(8)</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Devin</given>
<common>Teske</common>
</name>
<email>dteske@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/head/usr.sbin/bsdconfig/">
Dev Tree</url>
<url href="http://freshports.org/sysutils/bsdconfig/">Ports
Tree</url>
<url href="http://druidbsd.sf.net/download/bsdconfig/">Dev
Depot</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>bsdconfig(8) is actively being developed in HEAD under the
WITH_BSDCONFIG build-requirement. Snapshots are occasionally
taken and made available through the ports system to make testing
on 9.0-RELEASE or higher easier on the testers. Currently HEAD is
far beyond the version 0.7.3 sitting in ports. Upcoming changes
will push this to version 0.8 bringing in the necessary
frameworks required for in-depth package management and
distribution maintenance (read: one step closer to full 1.0
release).</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>&os; Core Team</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Core Team</given>
</name>
<email>core@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p>In the fourth quarter, the Core Team granted access for 7 new
committers, and took 1 commit bit in for safekeeping.</p>
<p>The Core Team oversaw the response to the security incident in
November in cooperation with the security team, port managers,
and cluster administrators. For more information on the fallouts
and response see the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/2012-compromise.html">
official announcement</a>. As a result, 9.1-RELEASE was delayed
until late December and was released with a limited set of binary
packages. The Core Team continues to work with developers to
rebuild, review, and restore the package building infrastructure
along with redports/QAT.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>&os; Documentation Engineering</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Glen</given>
<common>Barber</common>
</name>
<email>gjb@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Marc</given>
<common>Fonvieille</common>
</name>
<email>blackend@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gábor</given>
<common>Kövesdán</common>
</name>
<email>gabor@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Hiroki</given>
<common>Sato</common>
</name>
<email>hrs@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/internal/doceng.html">
Documentation Engineering Team Charter</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The translations/, projects/ and user/ directories of the doc
repository have been opened with the announced policies in
effect. These branches are now actively used for translations
work, editing the upcoming printed version of the Handbook,
and some doc infrastructure improvements.</p>
<p>The next phase of the infrastructure improvements is in
progress. It will migrate to real XML tools (with the exception
of Jade) for validation and rendering. At the same time, the
DocBook schema will be updated to 4.5.</p>
<p>After long discussions, Google Analytics has been enabled on
&os;.org webpages but access to statistical data has to be
solicited from the Documentation Engineering Team on an
individual and one time basis.</p>
<p>Since July, we have added two doc committers and one
translator.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Help the ongoing work on printed edition of the
Handbook.</task>
<task>Finish the migration to XML tools.</task>
</help>
</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>
</links>
<body>
<p>A strong year-end <a
href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/announcements.shtml#fundraising">
fundraising campaign</a> led to the raising $770,000 in 2012.
Thank you to everyone who made a donation to support &os;!</p>
<p>We published our <a
href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/press/2012Dec-newsletter.shtml">
year-end newsletter</a> that highlighted everything we did to
support the &os; Project and community during the second half of
the year.</p>
<p>We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon. We also attended the
conference and developer summit. Erwin Lansing organized and
chaired the Ports and Package Summit and Vendor Summit at
EuroBSDCon 2012. We attended MeetBSD developer summit
November 2012.</p>
<p>George Neville-Neil organized and the Foundation sponsored the
Bay Area Vendor Summit November 2012. We were represented at
LISA.</p>
<p>Kirk McKusick taught a tutorial and gave a keynote at EuroBSDCon
2012, and Justin Gibbs gave a talk at ZFS Day, October 2012.</p>
<p>We talked to DNS server software vendors and participated in
discussions on our DNS implementation, specifically with regard
to DNSSEC validation, at CENTR Tech September 2012 (Amsterdam,
the Netherlands) and EuroBSDCon.</p>
<p>We visited companies to discuss their &os; use and to help
facilitate collaboration with the Project.</p>
<p>Robert Watson published <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2430732">
ACM Queue and Communications of the ACM: A decade of OS
access-control extensibility</a> and Kirk McKusick
published <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2367378">
ACM Queue and Communications of the ACM: Disks from the
Perspective of a File System</a>.</p>
<p>We negotiated/supervised Foundation funded projects: porting
&os; to the Efika ARM platform, Capsicum Component Framework,
Native iSCSI Target implementation, and EUFI.</p>
<p>We negotiated/supervised/funded hardware needs in &os;
co-location centers.</p>
<p>Many board members provided support for recovery efforts
following the security compromise of &os;.org systems in late
2012.</p>
<p>We completed negotiation and provided legal counsel for the
new website privacy policy for the &os; Project.</p>
<p>We are now an industrial partner in the
Cambridge/Imperial/Edinburgh EPSRC REMS project on the Rigorous
Engineering of Mainstream Systems.</p>
<p>We coordinated the Foundation's discussion of Jira/Java;
conclusion, will continue to be supportive of OpenJDK and not
restart proprietary JDK support.</p>
<p>We implemented a donor management database to help with our
fundraising efforts. We also began working on automating the
donation process.</p>
<p>We started the Faces of &os; Series where we share the story of
a Foundation grant recipient periodically. This allows us to
spotlight people who received Foundation funding to work on
development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences,
and advocate for &os;.</p>
<p>We hired two technical staff members.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>Postmaster</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>David</given>
<common>Wolfskill</common>
</name>
<email>postmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>The postmaster team has expanded, with the addition of
Florian Smeets (flo@FreeBSD.org).</p>
<p>We have implemented a Mailman "handler" to drop duplicate
messages when both copies are sent to the same list (under
both the "long" (e.g., "freebsd-current") and "short"
(e.g., "current") names).</p>
<p>We have created several new mailing lists:</p>
<ul>
<li>freebsd-course: educational course on &os;</li>
<li>freebsd-numerics: Discussions of high quality
implementation of libm functions.</li>
<li>freebsd-snapshots: &os; Development Snapshot
Announcements</li>
<li>freebsd-tcltk: &os;-specific Tcl/Tk discussions</li>
</ul>
<p>We have also removed old mailing lists:</p>
<ul>
<li>freebsd-binup</li>
<li>freebsd-www (merged into freebsd-doc)</li>
</ul>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting support</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Alexander</given>
<common>Kabaev</common>
</name>
<email>kan@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Jean-Sébastien</given>
<common>Pédron</common>
</name>
<email>dumbbell@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Konstantin</given>
<common>Belousov</common>
</name>
<email>kib@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AMD_GPU">Project status on
the wiki</url>
<url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~kib/misc/ttm.1.patch">
Initial TTM port</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Jean-Sébastien Pédron started to port the AMD GPUs driver
from Linux to &os; 10-CURRENT in January 2013. This work is based
on a previous effort by Alexander Kabaev. Konstantin Belousov
provided the initial port of the TTM memory manager.</p>
<p>As of this writing, the driver is building but the tested
device fails to attach.</p>
<p>Status updates will be posted to the &os; wiki.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>Unmapped I/O</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Jeff</given>
<common>Roberson</common>
</name>
<email>jeff@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Konstantin</given>
<common>Belousov</common>
</name>
<email>kib@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~kib/misc/unmapped.13.patch">The
patch.</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>A well-known performance problem of &os; on large SMP
hardware is the need to invalidate TLB for all CPUs when
instantiating and destroying the VMIO buffers. Invalidation is
performed by sending inter-processor interrupt broadcast, which
disrupts the execution path of each CPU, and induces latency
on the request itself. Since most I/O requests processing require
creation of the buffers to hold the data in the kernel, TLB
invalidation becomes an obstacle for I/O scalability on
many-CPU machines.</p>
<p>The work done for flushing the TLBs is especially meaningless
since most mappings created are not used for anything but copying
the data from the usermode to the kernel page cache forth and
back. Most architectures have already established facilities to
perform such copies using much faster techniques, for instance,
the direct map on amd64, or specially reserved per-CPU page
frames or TLB entries on other architectures.</p>
<p>Jeff Roberson unified the machine-specific parts of the
busdma(9), making a common set of low-level functions available
on each architecture. This was committed as r246713. The end
result is that the new types of the load functions can be added
in the single, machine-independent place. In particular, it is
easy to modify the drivers to accept the 'unmapped' bio requests,
which lists the vm pages for the device dma engine, instead of
the virtual address of the kernel buffer.</p>
<p>Konstantin Belousov developed the changes for buffer cache
which allow the VMIO buffers to not map the referenced pages, and
used the feature for UFS. Per-architecture pmap_copy_pages(9)
methods were added to facilitate fast copying between user I/O
buffers and pages of unmapped buffers. The unmapped buffers
create the unmapped bio requests for the drivers, support for
which was made possible by Jeff's patch.</p>
<p>Tests show that even on a small 4-core machine, the system
time for reading files on UFS is reduced by 30%.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Test the patch, in particular, on non-x86
architectures.</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>The ja_JP.eucJP subtree has constantly been updated since the
last status report.</p>
<p>In &os; Handbook, translation work of the "users" section has
been completed. "linuxemu" and "serialcomms" were updated and
subsection "Subversion mirror site" was newly added to "mirrors"
section.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Further translation work of outdated documents in the
<tt>ja_JP.eucJP</tt> subtree.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os; on AARCH64</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Andrew</given>
<common>Turner</common>
</name>
<email>andrew@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://github.com/zxombie/aarch64-freebsd-sandbox" />
<url
href="http://www.arm.com/products/tools/models/fast-models/foundation-model.php" />
</links>
<body>
<p>Work has started on porting &os; to AARCH64, ARM's new 64-bit
architecture, using the ARMv8 Foundation Model software. GCC and
binutils have been ported to &os; and work started on kernel
initialization, including MMU setup.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Get the MMU working</task>
<task>Get system register documentation from ARM</task>
<task>Port clang AArch64 to &os;</task>
<task>Bring the code into a &os; project branch</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>Compiler improvements for &os;/ARMv6</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Andrew</given>
<common>Turner</common>
</name>
<email>andrew@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os;/ARM architecture is now supported by the in-tree clang
compiler. ARM EABI support is now available for both clang and
gcc along with the older and less documented OABI. There are
several outstanding issues, once they are fixed EABI will be
made default.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Test EABI builds</task>
<task>Fix exception handling for EABI</task>
<task>Test clang builds</task>
<task>Get clang to work natively on EABI-based ARM system.
Currently it works only as cross-compiler for ARM EABI.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>&os; Haskell Ports</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gábor</given>
<common>PÁLI</common>
</name>
<email>pgj@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Ashish</given>
<common>SHUKLA</common>
</name>
<email>ashish@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Haskell">&os; Haskell wiki
page</url>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSD-haskell/FreeBSD-haskell/">
&os; Haskell ports repository</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>We are proud to announce that the &os; Haskell Team has
updated the Haskell Platform to 2012.4.0.0, GHC to 7.4.2 as well
as updated existing ports to their latest stable versions. All
Haskell ports are also updated to use new OPTIONS framework, and
now, building with dynamic libraries (DYNAMIC) is on by default.
GHC also uses GCC 4.6 and binutils 2.22 from ports. We also added
a number of new Haskell ports, and their count in &os; Ports tree
is now 368.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Test GHC to work with clang/LLVM.</task>
<task>Commit pending Haskell ports to the &os; Ports tree.</task>
<task>Add more ports to the Ports Collection.</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/FreeBSD 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:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fix handling of Removable property in solid engine</li>
<li>Fix management of backlight with UPower (requires
acpi_video(4))</li>
<li>Installing spell-checking dictionaries with a dependency of
KDE-locale ports</li>
</ul>
<p>The team has also made many releases and upstreamed many fixes
and patches. The latest round of releases include:</p>
<ul>
<li>KDE SC: 4.9.2 (area51)</li>
<li>PyQt: 4.9.5 (area51); SIP: 4.14 (area51)</li>
<li>KDevelop: 4.4.0, 4.4.1 (area51); KDevPlatform: 1.4.0, 1.4.1
(area51)</li>
<li>Calligra: 2.5.3, 2.5.4 (area51)</li>
<li>CMake: 2.8.10.1</li>
<li>Many smaller ports</li>
</ul>
<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>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 crossed the threshold of 24,000 ports, while the
PR count still is close to 1600.</p>
<p>In Q4 we added five new committers and took in two commit bits
for safe keeping.</p>
<p>In the tradition of recruiting new portmgr@ at conferences, we
added Bernhard Froehlich to our ranks. He is the one responsible
for redports.org</p>
<p>Pav Lucistnik stepped down from his role on portmgr, he was
one of our principles doing -exp runs and well known for sending
failmails.</p>
<p>In the well publicised compromise, the pointyhat machines were
broken into and subsequently taken down, isolated and sanitised.
As a pre-emptive move redports/QAT were also taken down. Work is
under way to restore the services.</p>
<p>Mark Linimon began a from-scratch test install on one of his
own spare machines with the purpose of documenting all the
missing steps from the portbuild article. While doing so, he
further overhauled the codebase to both make it easier to
install, and to further refactor it in light of a security review
(still ongoing at time of this writing). Once this is complete,
the next task will be to reinstall all existing machines from
scratch.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Most ports PRs are assigned, we now need to focus on
testing, committing and closing.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Xfce</title>
<contact>
<person>
<email>xfce@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Xfce" />
</links>
<body>
<p>A major update has been made to
<strong>Thunar</strong> (file manager for the Xfce Desktop
Environment).</p>
<p><em>1.6.x</em> series introduce lots of improvements, most
noticeably is <strong>tabs support</strong>, and the performance
has been improved.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Try to fix HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) feature in
Midori with Vala 0.12.1 (works fine with Vala ≥ 0.14.x)</task>
<task>Replace libxfce4gui (deprecated and not maintained by
upstream) by libxfce4ui in order to enhance support for Xfce ≥
4.10.</task>
<task>Test core and plugins (panel, Thunar) with GLib ≥ 4.32
(to replace deprecated and removed functions introduced since
GLib 2.30).</task>
<task>Fix gtk-xfce-engine with Gtk+ ≥ 3.6.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='soc'>
<title>Google Summer of Code 2013</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>
</given>
<common>FreeBSD 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="http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-google-summer-of.html">
Google announcement of Summer of Code 2013</url>
<url
href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013">
Google's GSoC 2013 page (including timeline)</url>
<url href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code">
GSoC Wikipedia page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>Since 2005 Google has run its yearly Summer of Code program,
in which Google awards stipends to students who successfully
complete projects with participating Open Source organisations.
&os; has participated in GSoC every year since its inception,
and with the announcement that Google will once again run the
program in 2013 hopes to participate once more.</p>
<p>Google have not yet opened the application period for
mentoring organisations, but once it does &os; plans to apply.
Assuming that we are successful in our application to
participate, we will publish a large list of ideas for possible
projects shortly after. Students may then apply to do one of
those projects, or suggest their own idea for a project. After
the application period, &os; will discover how many student
slots we have been allocated, at which point successful
students will take some time to plan their project, gather
required information and discuss their plans with their
mentors, before having around 12 weeks to develop their
code.</p>
<p>In the eight years of &os;'s participation in Google Summer
of Code, approximately 150 students have successfully complete
projects with us, covering a wide spread of areas of both the
source and ports trees. Of these, 22 students continued
participating with &os; and subsequently became full &os;
committers, many later going on to mentor Summer of Code
students themselves.</p>
<p>Whether &os; has been successful in being selected to be a
participating organisation in Google Summer of Code 2013 should
be announced in early April.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>EuroBSDcon 2012</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>EuroBSDcon</given>
<common>Organizers</common>
</name>
<email>oc-2012@eurobsdcon.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gabor</given>
<common>Pali</common>
</name>
<email>pgj@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDcon 2012 web
site</url>
<url href="http://www.youtube.com/user/eurobsdcon">EuroBSDcon
YouTube channel</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The 11th European BSD Conference took place in Warsaw, Poland
at the Warsaw University of Technology with a large number of
visitors. It started up with two tracks of tutorials, featuring
FreeNAS, pfSense, DTrace, PF, development of NetBSD drivers, and
an overall introduction to the &os; operating system given by
Kirk McKusick. There we also had opening and closing keynotes,
supplemented with 22 talks on different topics related to &os;,
OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeNAS and PC-BSD: BHyVe, configuration
management with puppet, improvements in the OpenBSD cryptographic
framework, tuning ZFS, server load balancing in DNS, running &os;
on embedded systems, e.g MIPS and ARM, and challenges in identity
management and authentication.</p>
<p>The conference also had a dedicated track presented by the
attendees of the &os; developer summit and open to all, where one
could learn more about what is happening currently in the
Project: results of Google Summer of Code 2012, architectural
changes in the &os; documentation tree, ILNP, advancements in
package building and development of pkg(8), and a status report
on the USB stack.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>&os; Developer Summit, Warsaw</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Gabor</given>
<common>Pali</common>
</name>
<email>pgj@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201210DevSummit">Home page of
the summit</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>We had 53 &os; developers and invited guests attending the
&os; Developer Summit organized as part of EuroBSDcon 2012 in
Warsaw, Poland at the Warsaw University of Technology. This year
EuroBSDcon organizers again offered us their generous support in
helping with keeping the event running smooth, helping with
registrations, renting the venue, and providing food for keeping
attendees satisfied and happy.</p>
<p>The Warsaw developer summit spanned over 3 days and had 9
working groups on various topics. We improved last year's layout
inherited from the Canadian summits because it has worked well
earlier but could use some further refinements. On both the first
and second days, we ran the working groups, ranging from the
standard matters, discussing issues with the USB stack, the
compiler toolchain, the Ports Collection, or the documentation to
some experimental ones, e.g. arranging an operating systems
course focusing on &os;. In addition to this, similarly to last
year, one of the working groups was about gathering vendors to
present their ideas and engage in discussion with the developers
on their needs from the Project. Finally, on the third day, there
were a number of exciting work-in-progress reports given in a
dedicated Developer Summit track at the main conference.</p>
<p>Photos and slides for the most of the talks are available on
the home page of the summit.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>
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