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<div id="contentwrap"><h1>Introduction</h1><p>After a long, exhausting, yet very productive third quarter of 2005
FreeBSD 6.0 has been released. Many activities were put into the
background in order to make this release the success it has
become.</p><p>Nonetheless, we received a tremendous amount of reports covering
various projects that either found their way into FreeBSD 6.0 already
or have started to develop in, what is now known as 7-CURRENT. The
EuroBSDCon and the Developer Summit in Basel next week will be a good
opportunity to help some of the ideas herein to take off.</p><p>Last round we had the pleasure to introduce our accepted Google
Summer of Code projects. Now, that the summer is over, we are even
more pleased to include reports about the outcome of these projects.
Some already found their way into the tree or the general public
otherwise - most ocularly the new webdesign.</p><p>Unfortunately, this publication has been delayed for various
reasons - the before mentioned release of 6.0 being one of them.
Thus, some of the reports might no longer be as up to date as they
were when we received them and we encourage you - even more this time
- to also visit the weblinks to get more recent information.</p><p>Thanks again to everyone who submitted reports, and our sincere
apologies for running late this time.</p><hr /><h3><a href="#Google-summer-of-code">Google summer of code</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#BSD-Installer">BSD Installer</a></li><li><a href="#csup:-cvs-mode-support">csup: cvs mode support</a></li><li><a href="#FreeBSD-Web-Site-Redesign">FreeBSD Web Site Redesign</a></li><li><a href="#Fuse-for-FreeBSD">Fuse for FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#gjournal">gjournal</a></li><li><a href="#gvinum-'move',-'rename'-support">gvinum 'move', 'rename' support</a></li><li><a href="#Improve-Libalias">Improve Libalias</a></li><li><a href="#Integrated-SNMP-monitoring">Integrated SNMP monitoring</a></li><li><a href="#Interface-Cleanup">Interface Cleanup</a></li><li><a href="#launchd(8)-for-FreeBSD">launchd(8) for FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#Nsswitch-/-Caching-daemon">Nsswitch / Caching daemon</a></li><li><a href="#SNMP-Monitoring">SNMP Monitoring</a></li><li><a href="#UFS-Journaling">UFS Journaling</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Projects">Projects</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#ggtrace">ggtrace</a></li><li><a href="#iSCSI-Initiator">iSCSI Initiator</a></li><li><a href="#pfSense">pfSense</a></li><li><a href="#Realtime-POSIX-signal">Realtime POSIX signal</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#bridge.c-retired">bridge.c retired</a></li><li><a href="#TODO-list-for-volunteers">TODO list for volunteers</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Kernel">Kernel</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Low-overhead-performance-monitoring-for-FreeBSD">Low-overhead performance monitoring for FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#NEWCARD">NEWCARD</a></li><li><a href="#Sound-subsystem-improvements">Sound subsystem improvements</a></li><li><a href="#The-Kernel-Stress-Test-Suite">The Kernel Stress Test Suite</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Network-infrastructure">Network infrastructure</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#OpenBSD-dhclient-import">OpenBSD dhclient import</a></li><li><a href="#Removable-interface-improvements">Removable interface improvements</a></li><li><a href="#TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization-Fundraise">TCP & IP Routing Optimization Fundraise</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Architectures">Architectures</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Porting-FreeBSD-to-the-Xbox">Porting FreeBSD to the Xbox</a></li><li><a href="#PowerPC-Port">PowerPC Port</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Ports">Ports</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#FreeBSD-GNOME-Project">FreeBSD GNOME Project</a></li><li><a href="#FreshPorts">FreshPorts</a></li><li><a href="#Ports-Collection">Ports Collection</a></li><li><a href="#Ports-Tinderbox">Ports Tinderbox</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Vendor-/-3rd-Party-Software">Vendor / 3rd Party Software</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Cronyx/Asterisk">Cronyx/Asterisk</a></li><li><a href="#OpenBSD-packet-filter---pf">OpenBSD packet filter - pf</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#BSDCan">BSDCan</a></li><li><a href="#EuroBSDCon-2005---Basel">EuroBSDCon 2005 - Basel</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="#Problem-Report-Database">Problem Report Database</a></li></ul><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Google-summer-of-code" href="#Google-summer-of-code" id="Google-summer-of-code">Google summer of code</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="BSD-Installer" href="#BSD-Installer" id="BSD-Installer">BSD Installer</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.bsdinstaller.org/" title="http://www.bsdinstaller.org/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.bsdinstaller.org/" title="">http://www.bsdinstaller.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/BSDInstaller</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Andrew
Turner
<<a href="mailto:soc-andrew@FreeBSD.org">soc-andrew@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>By the end of August I managed to modify the release building
process to build a live CD that loads the front and backends. It
could install all the distfiles, install the ports tree and had
minimal support to install and uninstall packages.</p>
<p>Since the end of the Summer of Code I have worked to integrate
the new Lua backend. This has been successful, with it now past the
point of the BSDINSTALLER-BETA-1 release. It can install the
distfiles but not the ports tree or packages yet.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="csup:-cvs-mode-support" href="#csup:-cvs-mode-support" id="csup:-cvs-mode-support">csup: cvs mode support</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ChristophMathys" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ChristophMathys">The wikipage with details about my SoC-project</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ChristophMathys" title="The wikipage with details about my SoC-project">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ChristophMathys</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html" title="http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html">csup project page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html" title="csup project page">http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Christoph
Mathys
<<a href="mailto:cmathys@bluewin.ch">cmathys@bluewin.ch</a>>
</p>
<p>During the "Summer of Code" I worked on csup (a rewrite of CVSup
in C). It already supported checkout-mode, so my task was to
implement support for cvs-mode. The biggest part of the project was
to implement support for rcs-files. As "byproducts" I also wrote
the necessary code to create nodes/hardlinks and to update files
using the rsync-algorithm. For what I know, the code works fine,
but errorhandling is practically inexistent.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Errors should be properly handled</li><li>Support to get fixups</li><li>The hard part to support rcs file updates is done, but there
is no checksum, some options are not honored and the performance
could be improved</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-Web-Site-Redesign" href="#FreeBSD-Web-Site-Redesign" id="FreeBSD-Web-Site-Redesign">FreeBSD Web Site Redesign</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org" title="http://www.FreeBSD.org"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org" title="">http://www.FreeBSD.org</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/old" title="http://www.FreeBSD.org/old">Archived copy of old site.</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/old" title="Archived copy of old site.">http://www.FreeBSD.org/old</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Emily
Boyd
<<a href="mailto:soc-emily@FreeBSD.org">soc-emily@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Murray
Stokely
<<a href="mailto:murray@FreeBSD.org">murray@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Web
Team
<<a href="mailto:freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The new website has gone live! Thanks to Emily Boyd for all her
hard work. We still have a lot of work to do to integrate
suggestions that have been made by users since we went live. The
new CSS design makes it much easier to rapidly change the look and
feel of the site, so it is easy to experiment. We're still looking
for more HTML/CSS designers to help us improve the site.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="Fuse-for-FreeBSD" href="#Fuse-for-FreeBSD" id="Fuse-for-FreeBSD">Fuse for FreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/" title="http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/">New home page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/" title="New home page">http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/FuseFilesystem" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/FuseFilesystem">FreeBSD wiki page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/FuseFilesystem" title="FreeBSD wiki page">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/FuseFilesystem</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://creo.hu/~csaba/projects/fuse4bsd/downloads/" title="http://creo.hu/~csaba/projects/fuse4bsd/downloads/">Download location</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://creo.hu/~csaba/projects/fuse4bsd/downloads/" title="Download location">http://creo.hu/~csaba/projects/fuse4bsd/downloads/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Csaba
Henk
<<a href="mailto:soc-chenk@freebsd.org">soc-chenk@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Fuse for FreeBSD is the outcome of my "ssh based networking
filesystem for FreeBSD" SoC project.</p>
<p>The kernel interface for the comprehensive userspace filesystem
API provided by the (
<a href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net" shape="rect">Fuse project</a>
) has been implemented for FreeBSD (6.x and 7.x), under the BSD
license. This has the benefit of opening up the possibility of
porting the rich collection of Fuse based filesystems to
FreeBSD.</p>
<p>Now it's ready for consumption by a broader audience. The
<tt>sysutils/fusefs-kmod</tt>
,
<tt>sysutils/fusefs-libs</tt>
,
<tt>sysutils/fusefs-sshfs</tt>
ports can be expected to be integrated into the FreeBSD ports tree
in the next few days (the ports were created and are maintained by
Anish Mistry, and Simon Barner's careful review also helps a
lot).</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Implement missing features like extended attributes and
attribute/name caching (with timeout).</li><li>Resolve problems with autotools and integrate userspace
modifications into the Fuse codebase.</li><li>Port Fuse based filesystems and language bindings to
FreeBSD.</li><li>Create sysfs (Fuse based filesystem interface to
sysctl).</li><li>Test, test, test among a broad variety of
circumstances.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="gjournal" href="#gjournal" id="gjournal">gjournal</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/gjournal" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/gjournal">gjournal wiki page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/gjournal" title="gjournal wiki page">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/gjournal</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Ivan
Voras
<<a href="mailto:ivoras@yahoo.com">ivoras@yahoo.com</a>>
</p>
<p>Gjournal provides GEOM-level journaling and COW capabilities to
storage devices. Unfortunately, it cannot be used as a substitute
for filesystem journaling (fsck is still needed when gjournal
device is used to host filesystems). Development has slowed down,
and the existing code needs much more testing. If there is
continued interest in it, I'll probably split the functionalities
into two projects, one handling COW and one handling the
journaling, in order to make the code cleaner.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>More testing is needed.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="gvinum-'move',-'rename'-support" href="#gvinum-'move',-'rename'-support" id="gvinum-'move',-'rename'-support">gvinum 'move', 'rename' support</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/GvinumMoveRename" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/GvinumMoveRename">gvinum 'move', 'rename' wiki</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/GvinumMoveRename" title="gvinum 'move', 'rename' wiki">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/GvinumMoveRename</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Chris
Jones
<<a href="mailto:soc-cjones@freebsd.org">soc-cjones@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Support for moving and renaming objects in gvinum was completed
at the end of August 2005. All gvinum objects (drives, subdisks,
plexes, and volumes) can be renamed, and subdisks can be moved from
drive to drive. Also, a man page for gvinum was created.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Update FreeBSD Handbook chapter on vinum to reflect gvinum.
Slowly in progress, but hopefully done by the end of the year,
workload permitting.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Improve-Libalias" href="#Improve-Libalias" id="Improve-Libalias">Improve Libalias</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati">Wiki/Official project site</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati" title="Wiki/Official project site">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/PaoloPisati</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Paolo
Pisati
<<a href="mailto:p.pisati@oltrelinux.com">p.pisati@oltrelinux.com</a>>
</p>
<p>The project met all the scheduled goals, and following are the
new features implemented in libalias:
<ul>
<li>integration with IPFW in kernel land</li>
<li>support for 4.x and 5.x as kld</li>
<li>converted from a monolithic to a modular architecture, added
the ability to load/unload at runtime support for new protocols
(modules work both in kernel and user land)</li>
<li>added logging support in kernel land</li>
</ul>
<br clear="none" />
Fell free to suggest other improvements.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Test and feedback are welcome</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Integrated-SNMP-monitoring" href="#Integrated-SNMP-monitoring" id="Integrated-SNMP-monitoring">Integrated SNMP monitoring</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~harti/bsnmp/index.html" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~harti/bsnmp/index.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~harti/bsnmp/index.html" title="">http://people.freebsd.org/~harti/bsnmp/index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ShteryanaShopova" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ShteryanaShopova"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ShteryanaShopova" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/ShteryanaShopova</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SnmpMonitoringModulesStatus" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SnmpMonitoringModulesStatus"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SnmpMonitoringModulesStatus" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SnmpMonitoringModulesStatus</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Philip
Paeps
<<a href="mailto:philip@FreeBSD.org">philip@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Shteryana
Shopova
<<a href="mailto:soc-shteryana@FreeBSD.org">soc-shteryana@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>This summer, we've had the pleasure of having two Google Summer
of Code students hacking on our SNMP monitoring machinery. Victor
worked on implementing the Host Resources, TCP and UDP MIBs in
bsnmpd while Shteryana started on client-side SNMP tools.</p>
<p>With these modules and tools, a FreeBSD installation can be
monitored without having to install any (heavy!) third-party
tools.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>While the modules and the tools currently in Perforce are
generally functional, they still need some tidying up (style(9))
and testing before they can be committed to CVS.</p>
<p>At the time of this writing, the Hostres MIB is pretty much
commit-ready in Perforce (//depot/user/philip/bsnmp/...), the
other modules and tools live in
//depot/projects/soc2005/bsnmp/... They'll be branched for
tidying up and committing "Real Soon Now"[tm]</p>
</li><li>Testers are very welcome. :-) Please let us know about any
bugs!</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Interface-Cleanup" href="#Interface-Cleanup" id="Interface-Cleanup">Interface Cleanup</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/CleanupOfNetworkInterfaceApisProposal" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/CleanupOfNetworkInterfaceApisProposal">SoC Proposal</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/CleanupOfNetworkInterfaceApisProposal" title="SoC Proposal">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/CleanupOfNetworkInterfaceApisProposal</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Anders
Persson
<<a href="mailto:soc-anders@freebsd.org">soc-anders@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The dependencies to kernel-only datastructures in netstat
(ifnet, etc.) have been removed almost completely (AppleTalk and
IPX still needs work). In order to remove the dependencies, the
debugging features of netstat had to be removed. However, a project
to create a generic, modular 'data structure' examination tool is
ongoing, and the debugging features factor out of netstat have been
migrated to this tool.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Refactoring of the netstat code, create a modular version in
the spirit of ifconfig.</li><li>Data structure examination tool needs to be completed,
current state is more that of a prototype.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="launchd(8)-for-FreeBSD" href="#launchd(8)-for-FreeBSD" id="launchd(8)-for-FreeBSD">launchd(8) for FreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/launchd" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/launchd">Project Wiki</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/launchd" title="Project Wiki">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/launchd</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
R. Tyler
Ballance
<<a href="mailto:tyler@tamu.edu">tyler@tamu.edu</a>>
</p>
<p>In short, launchd can run perfectly fine on FreeBSD, and
combined with launchctl, it can be used to manage daemons through
the launchctl(1) interface. Jobs can be added and managed two ways
as of yet from launchctl(1). Using zarzycki@'s experimental
"submit" command within launchctl(1) or by using my
lame/rudimentary/etc "launcher" format (launchd/launchers/*.launch)
which uses property(3) to parse out three simple, and important
details. The program label, path, and any program flags. Using the
"load" command, one can load the data into launchctl(1) and then
start the processes with the..."start" command. Jobs can be
removed/stopped with the "remove" command. The "limit" command
still throws launchctl(1) into an infinite loop, and yes, I plan on
fixing this.</p>
<p>There are some things that need to be fixed, first off, some
sort of boot time integration, whether as an init-replacement (i.e.
PID 1, a la Mac OS X) or as the first thing started from init, that
kicks all rcng things off. Along with, more importantly, a plist
parser, so we can have full compatibility with Mac OS X's launchd
via Core Foundation.</p>
<p>I'm also trying to get launchd(8) relicensed with the BSD
license, as opposed to the APSL, anybody with tips, or methods for
achieving this goal, contact me at tyler@tamu.edu</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Writing a light-weight plist (non-XML) parser with lex and
yacc.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Nsswitch-/-Caching-daemon" href="#Nsswitch-/-Caching-daemon" id="Nsswitch-/-Caching-daemon">Nsswitch / Caching daemon</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/NsswitchAndCachingFinalReport" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/NsswitchAndCachingFinalReport"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/NsswitchAndCachingFinalReport" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/NsswitchAndCachingFinalReport</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/MichaelBushkov" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/MichaelBushkov"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/MichaelBushkov" title="">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/MichaelBushkov</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Michael
Bushkov
<<a href="mailto:"></a>>
</p>
<p>The nsswitch / caching daemon project was developed within the
Google's Summer Of Code program. Almost all goals of the project
were achieved. Thanks to Brooks Davis and Jacques Vidrine, who were
my mentors and greatly helped me.</p>
<p>Nsswitch subsystem was extended to support new sources
(services, protocols, rpc, openssh and GT4). The testing of the
Globus Grid Toolkit 4 patch (which adds support for nsswitch to
GT4) is still to be done. For nsswitch to support caching, the
caching daemon was implemented on top of the caching library, which
was also developed during the SoC. The current version of the
daemon uses simple nscd-like configuration file and seems to be
stable. To complete the SoC project, the experimental version of
libc with in-process caching enabled was made. It's benchmarking
will be done in the nearest future.</p>
<p>There were some requests for caching daemon to be able to act
like NSCD (to perform the actual nsswitch lookups by itself), so it
was modified to support this feature. But current implementation
has some restrictions and requires a lot of testing. Right now the
final polishing is being made to the project's sources, so that
they could be added to the CURRENT</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Extend caching daemon to support NSCD functionality</li><li>Test Globus Grid Toolkit 4 patch</li><li>Add support for MAC and audit related configuration files to
the nsswitch</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="SNMP-Monitoring" href="#SNMP-Monitoring" id="SNMP-Monitoring">SNMP Monitoring</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/VictorCruceru" title="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/VictorCruceru">FreeBSD wiki</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/VictorCruceru" title="FreeBSD wiki">http://wiki.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/VictorCruceru</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Harti
Brandt
<<a href="mailto:harti@freebsd.org">harti@freebsd.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Philip
Paeps
<<a href="mailto:philip@freebsd.org">philip@freebsd.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Victor
Cruceru
<<a href="mailto:soc-victor@freebsd.org">soc-victor@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>New MIBs are implmented for the BSNMP agent:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<strong>HOST-RESOURCES-MIB</strong>
(
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2790.txt" shape="rect">
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2790.txt</a>
). Philip is going to submit the code into the CVS
repository.</li>
<li>
<strong>TCP-MIB with combined IPv4 & IPv6 support</strong>
(
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4022.txt" shape="rect">
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4022.txt</a>
). This new TCP-MIB is 100% backward compatible with the old one
(v4 only). It adds a clear distinction between active and passive
tcp endpoints and for each endpoint info about the process it
belongs to.</li>
<li>
<strong>UDP-MIB with combined IPv4 & IPv6 support</strong>
(
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4113.txt" shape="rect">
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4113.txt</a>
). This new UDP-MIB is 100% backward compatible with the old one
(v4 only) and it adds multiple instances support for the UDP
endpoints and for each endpoint info about the processes using
it.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>For HOST-RESOURCES-MIB we are going to add support for more
detailed memory stats based of libmemstat(3)</li><li>The rest of the IPv6 MIBs.</li><li>FreeBSD enterprise MIBs for supporting SNMP configuration
(via SNMP SETs) for FreeBSD.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="UFS-Journaling" href="#UFS-Journaling" id="UFS-Journaling">UFS Journaling</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Brian
Wilson
<<a href="mailto:polytopes@gmail.com">polytopes@gmail.com</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Scott
Long
<<a href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">scottl@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Scott has been working on inserting journalling hooks into the
ufs and ffs filesystem code. Brian has been balancing school and
redesigning various things that were deemed necessary to update
during the end of the actual SoC project.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Finish the redesign of the internal block management
code.</li><li>Integration and test of the ffs/ufs hooks and the journaling
code.</li><li>Updating userland tools to be aware of and use the
journal.</li><li>Journal buffer management wiring to VM subsystem a la
XFS.</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Projects" href="#Projects" id="Projects">Projects</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="ggtrace" href="#ggtrace" id="ggtrace">ggtrace</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://ivoras.sharanet.org/projects/ggtrace.html" title="http://ivoras.sharanet.org/projects/ggtrace.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://ivoras.sharanet.org/projects/ggtrace.html" title="">http://ivoras.sharanet.org/projects/ggtrace.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Ivan
Voras
<<a href="mailto:ivoras@yahoo.com">ivoras@yahoo.com</a>>
</p>
<p>Ggtrace is "GEOM gate tracer", utility to track I/O requests on
a storage device on FreeBSD. It uses the ggate facility of FreeBSD
to attach to a file or device and produces a device that can be
used for any I/O, including hosting filesystems.</p>
<p>I/O requests are presented in the form of a moving histogram
that can be used to discern which parts of the storage device are
used most often. One use of ggtrace is to analyze how filesystems
arrange and access data on storage devices.</p>
<p>The project is working and usable only on the RELENG_6
branch.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="iSCSI-Initiator" href="#iSCSI-Initiator" id="iSCSI-Initiator">iSCSI Initiator</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-12.tar.bz2" title="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-12.tar.bz2"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-12.tar.bz2" title="">ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-12.tar.bz2</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Daniel
Braniss
<<a href="mailto:danny@cs.huji.ac.il">danny@cs.huji.ac.il</a>>
</p>
<p>This iSCSI kernel module and its companion control program, are
still under development, but the main parts seem to be working. A
second round of public tests has started.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>login chap authentication</li><li>digest</li><li>network disconnect recovery</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="pfSense" href="#pfSense" id="pfSense">pfSense</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.pfsense.com" title="http://www.pfsense.com"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.pfsense.com" title="">http://www.pfsense.com</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Scott
Ullrich
<<a href="mailto:sullrich@gmail.com">sullrich@gmail.com</a>>
</p>
<p>pfSense is a m0n0wall derived operating system platform with
radically different goals such as using Packet Filter, FreeBSD 6,
ALTQ for excellent packet queueing and finally an integrated
package management system for extending the environment with new
features.</p>
<p>Work continues to stabilize pfSense in preparation for the
FreeBSD 6 release. Once FreeBSD 6 is released pfSense will enter
the final beta and release candidate phases in preparation for the
1.0 release.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Stabilize installer (cannot load kernel errors after
install)</li><li>Finish outgoing load balancing monitoring</li><li>Fix last minute bugs that turn up</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Realtime-POSIX-signal" href="#Realtime-POSIX-signal" id="Realtime-POSIX-signal">Realtime POSIX signal</a></h2><p>
Contact:
David
Xu
<<a href="mailto:davidxu@FreeBSD.org">davidxu@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The FreeBSD kernel is powerful, but it still lacks some realtime
POSIX facilities, for example, sigqueue. Most of the code is ready,
and I am testing it.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>POSIX timer, timer_xxx syscalls</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Documentation" href="#Documentation" id="Documentation">Documentation</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="bridge.c-retired" href="#bridge.c-retired" id="bridge.c-retired">bridge.c retired</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Max
Laier
<<a href="mailto:mlaier@freebsd.org">mlaier@freebsd.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Andrew
Thompson
<<a href="mailto:thompsa@freebsd.org">thompsa@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>As of September 27, the old bridge(4) implementation has been
removed from HEAD and will not be part of FreeBSD 7 and later.
FreeBSD 6 will serve as transition period. The full functional
replacement if_bridge(4) is now available in FreeBSD 5 (not yet
part of 5.4 however), FreeBSD 6 and -CURRENT. Any problems should
be reported to Andrew Thompson, who is maintaining if_bridge in
FreeBSD.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Document the change in the handbook and other reference
material.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="TODO-list-for-volunteers" href="#TODO-list-for-volunteers" id="TODO-list-for-volunteers">TODO list for volunteers</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Alexander
Leidinger
<<a href="mailto:netchild@FreeBSD.org">netchild@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The TODO list for volunteers (see the last report for more) is
now under review by some doc@ people.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Kernel" href="#Kernel" id="Kernel">Kernel</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Low-overhead-performance-monitoring-for-FreeBSD" href="#Low-overhead-performance-monitoring-for-FreeBSD" id="Low-overhead-performance-monitoring-for-FreeBSD">Low-overhead performance monitoring for FreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement">Project home page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement" title="Project home page">http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Joseph
Koshy
<<a href="mailto:jkoshy@FreeBSD.org">jkoshy@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>This projects implements a kernel module (hwpmc(4)), an
application programming interface (pmc(3)) and a few simple
applications (pmcstat(8) and pmccontrol(8)) for measuring system
performance using event monitoring hardware in modern CPUs.</p>
<p>The last three months have been spent in bug fixing and in
tweaking the code. A few more minor features and loose ends remain
to be taken care of. Once these are done, I hope to get started on
a graphical performance analyser.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="NEWCARD" href="#NEWCARD" id="NEWCARD">NEWCARD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Warner
Losh
<<a href="mailto:imp@freebsd.org">imp@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Due to an email snafu, the June report was not submitted, so
this report covers since the last 6 months.</p>
<p>Summary: The 16-bit part of NEWCARD has been greatly enhanced.
In addition, power control has become interrupt driven. Some
drivers make use of the new functionality.</p>
<p>The pccard layer now exports the CIS for each device that is
present, even if there's no driver for the card or parts of the
card.</p>
<p>The power up and reset sequence is now interrupt driven. This
has eliminated many of the long pauses that the system used to
experience after a card insertion. We can not play glitch-free
audio while inserting or removing a card.</p>
<p>A number of additional cards are recognized by PC Card. In
addition, drivers now can read the CIS for more information about
the card. Drivers have been enhanced to read the CIS for MAC
addresses and the like where appropriate.</p>
<p>The ed driver now attaches the mii bus of the AX88190 and
AX88790 fast ethernet PC Card chips. This allows better status
reporting and increased functionality for PHY chips that need some
help. The ed driver also supports the Tamarack TC5299J chipset
(including attaching its MII bus) now, the only open source OS that
does so (TC5299J cards will work with other open source OS, but
they won't report their status or attach a mii bus).</p>
<p>A number of bugs have been fixed in the pccard or cardbus
drivers. Most of these changes have been merged into the
forthcoming 6.0. Others will be merged after the release.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>ExpressCard laptops have arrived with ExpressCard/54 and
ExpressCard/34 slots. It is unknown the extent of the work
necessary to support them.</li><li>The ISA attachment of cbb needs work to make it fully
functional.</li><li>A CIS parser in userland needs to be written. The pccardc
based CIS parser is OK, but it doesn't handle MFC cards too well.
Ideally the parser would produce output that is compatible with the
linux tool.</li><li>A mechanism for CIS override is needed. We need a tool that
will take an ascii representation of the CIS and produce a binary.
We need a tool that will install the binary into the kernel and
kernel modifications to switch from the CIS that's in the card to
the faked up CIS.</li><li>We need a mechanism for creating pseudo multi-function cards.
Initially, it seems that all we really need is the ability for an
arbitrary driver to add a sio companion, since that covers all the
cases I'm aware of. Resources would need to be 'donated' from the
creating driver to the sio card.</li><li>It would be nice if we could move to a more common CIS
parsing and dispatch. The CardBus side is wide open at the moment
since none of the pci drivers use the CIS information outside of a
few that get their MAC address via a standard interface.</li><li>The ep driver needs work to make the newer ep cards that have
mii bus on them actually probe and attach it. It needs to gain
media support for the non-mii based cards. The 3C1 still needs
work.</li><li>The sn driver needs work to support many of the SMC91Cxxx PC
Card devices. These are typically combination cards that need
special, non-standard initialization.</li><li>Power savings for 16-bit cards can be realized if we power
them up at 3.3V rather than at 5.0V. Not all cards can support
this, but many can and indicate this support in the CIS. Windows
tries the 3.3V configuration entries before the 5.0V ones. We
should do the same.</li><li>Most of the changes that have been made to the pccard and
cardbus layers can be merged back into RELENG_5.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Sound-subsystem-improvements" href="#Sound-subsystem-improvements" id="Sound-subsystem-improvements">Sound subsystem improvements</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Multimedia
Mailinglist
<<a href="mailto:multimedia@FreeBSD.org">multimedia@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Ariff
Abdullah
<<a href="mailto:skywizard@MyBSD.org.my">skywizard@MyBSD.org.my</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Alexander
Leidinger
<<a href="mailto:netchild@FreeBSD.org">netchild@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Recently a lot of fixes, specially in handling format / rate
conversion and general stability was committed to -current. This
include fixes for most LOR's and new features (software volume
handling for soundcards without volume handling in hardware and the
possibility to switch to spdif).</p>
<p>A lot of effort was expended by Ariff (and other people) to come up
with those improvements. For this reason Ariff was "punished" with a
commit bit, so he is able to commit further improvements on his
own.</p>
<p>This work is not integrated into 6.0-RELEASE because of some
lose ends (see 'sndctl' below).</p>
<p>You can help by looking at
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=&severity=&priority=&class=&state=&sort=none&text=sound&responsible=&multitext=&originator=&release=" shape="rect">
sound related PR's in GNATS</a>
and making follow-up's which tell us if a problem still persists or
if a PR can be closed because the bug is fixed. Also feel free to
submit patches for anything on the TODO list below.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Update manual pages to reflect new features.</li><li>Fix driver specific issues (via, t4dwave, maestro).</li><li>Make all drivers MPSAFE.</li><li>Rewrite some parts (e.g. a new mixer subsystem with OSS
compatibility).</li><li>sndctl(1): tool to control non-mixer parts of the sound
system (e.g. spdif switching, virtual-3D effects) by an user
(instead of the sysctl approach in -current); pcmplay(1),
pcmrec(1), pcmutil(1).</li><li>Plugable FEEDER infrastructure. For ease of debugging various
feeder stuff and/or as userland library and test suite.</li><li>Support for new hardware (envy24, Intel HDA).</li><li>Performance enhancement (via 'slave'-channels, changes are
under review)?</li><li>Closer compatibility with OSS, especially for the upcoming
OSS v4.</li><li>Close a lot of PR's.</li><li>Document the sound system in the
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/index.html" shape="rect">
FreeBSD Architecture Handbook</a>
.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="The-Kernel-Stress-Test-Suite" href="#The-Kernel-Stress-Test-Suite" id="The-Kernel-Stress-Test-Suite">The Kernel Stress Test Suite</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/" title="">http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Peter
Holm
<<a href="mailto:pho@freebsd.org">pho@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The current version of the test suite took form in the beginning
of the year after discussions with Jeff Roberson, during a long
period of testing Jeff's VFS SMP work.</p>
<p>At that time, Daniel Seuffert donated a Thunder 7500
motherboard complete with CPUs, RAM and coolers. This allowed me
to do some serious SMP testing.</p>
<p>Mid July Murray Stokely suggested adding a link from the 6.0
todo web page to the Stress Test Status Page. At that time there
were a few reoccurring panics that made it hard to test the kernel
for other problems. Numerous people put a lot of hard work in
fixing the panics and livelocks found during the next months. At
the same time others stepped in and ran the test suite on their own
hardware, thus increasing the focus on kernel stability.</p>
<p>As of 6.0, the kernel stress test suite cannot panic the
kernel.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Network-infrastructure" href="#Network-infrastructure" id="Network-infrastructure">Network infrastructure</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="OpenBSD-dhclient-import" href="#OpenBSD-dhclient-import" id="OpenBSD-dhclient-import">OpenBSD dhclient import</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Brooks
Davis
<<a href="mailto:brooks@FreeBSD.org">brooks@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Sam
Leffler
<<a href="mailto:sam@FreeBSD.org">sam@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The OpenBSD rewrite of dhclient has been imported, replacing the
ISC dhclient. The OpenBSD client provides better support for
roaming on wireless networks and a simpler model of operation.
Instead of a single dhclient process per system, there is one per
network interface. This instance automatically goes away in the
even of link loss and is restarted via devd when link is
reacquired. To support this change, many aspects of the network
interface configuration process were overhauled.</p>
<p>The current code works well in most circumstances, but more
testing and polishing is needed. A few bugs are being tracked, but
most of them are edge cases.</p>
<p>Work on further interface configuration enhancements is underway
for FreeBSD 7.0.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="Removable-interface-improvements" href="#Removable-interface-improvements" id="Removable-interface-improvements">Removable interface improvements</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/pubs/eurobsdcon2004/" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/pubs/eurobsdcon2004/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/pubs/eurobsdcon2004/" title="">http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/pubs/eurobsdcon2004/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/dingo/" title="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/dingo/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/dingo/" title="">http://www.freebsd.org/projects/dingo/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Brooks
Davis
<<a href="mailto:brooks@FreeBSD.org">brooks@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>This project is an attempt to clean up handling of network
interfaces in order to allow interfaces to be removed reliably.
Current problems include panics if Dummynet is delaying packets to
an interface when it is removed.</p>
<p>I have removed struct ifnet's and layer two common structures
from device driver structures. This will eventually allow them to
be managed properly upon device removal. This code has been
committed and will appear in 6.0. Popular drivers continue to
be fixed. jhb's locking work has identified and corrected many
issues. rwatson has also committed cleanups to the multicast code
which fixed some issues in this area.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization-Fundraise" href="#TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization-Fundraise" id="TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization-Fundraise">TCP & IP Routing Optimization Fundraise</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html" title="">http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.html#Fundraising---TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization" title="http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.html#Fundraising---TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.html#Fundraising---TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization" title="">http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.html#Fundraising---TCP-&-IP-Routing-Optimization</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Andre
Oppermann
<<a href="mailto:andre@freebsd.org">andre@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The fundraise has been very successful and I want to thank
everyone who has pledged their support and tipped the jar. The full
amount plus a little bit more has been raised in a very short
timeframe. More information on the exact amounts and their sponsors
can be found at the first link.</p>
<p>Due to the extended (and unexpected long) code freeze for the
release process of FreeBSD 6.0 (which is very high quality btw.)
I've decided to push back on working full time until the freeze is
lifted. So far I've done some work in the mbuf handling area and
some other netinet cleanups in my local repository.</p>
<p>Once FreeBSD 6.0 is released I resume my work on this project
and many changes and optimizations, as described in the first and
second link, will go into into FreeBSD-current.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Architectures" href="#Architectures" id="Architectures">Architectures</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Porting-FreeBSD-to-the-Xbox" href="#Porting-FreeBSD-to-the-Xbox" id="Porting-FreeBSD-to-the-Xbox">Porting FreeBSD to the Xbox</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.xbox-bsd.nl" title="http://www.xbox-bsd.nl"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.xbox-bsd.nl" title="">http://www.xbox-bsd.nl</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Rink
Springer
<<a href="mailto:rink@rink.nu">rink@rink.nu</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Ed
Schouten
<<a href="mailto:ed@fxq.nl">ed@fxq.nl</a>>
</p>
<p>As of 26th July 2005, it is possible to run FreeBSD on your Xbox
with minor patching effort. The framebuffer has initial support;
The USB ports, IDE- and audio controllers are fully supported; the
only part severely lacking now is the lack of support for the
NForce Ethernet controller.</p>
<p>Currently, efforts are focussing on eliminating the XBOX kernel
option and make the port self-detecting; this means the x86 and
xbox kernels will be identical. The goal is to provide native xbox
support in 7-CURRENT.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a porting effort is planned from Linux' GPL-ed
forcedeth.c; not only the Xbox port will benefit from this but also
all NForce motherboard owners. The resulting driver could be
kldload-ed to keep the kernel GPL-free.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>The xbox framebuffer driver should be merged in the VESA
framework, so it can use syscons(4). Assistance on this would be
very welcome!</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="PowerPC-Port" href="#PowerPC-Port" id="PowerPC-Port">PowerPC Port</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html" title="http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html">FreeBSD/PPC Platform page.</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html" title="FreeBSD/PPC Platform page.">http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Peter
Grehan
<<a href="mailto:grehan@freebsd.org">grehan@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The project has been following the 6.0 release schedule by
producing BETA-* builds and is now up to the RC1 build.</p>
<p>Dario Freni successfully built a FreeSBIE/ppc iso for his
Summer-of-code project.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Ports" href="#Ports" id="Ports">Ports</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-GNOME-Project" href="#FreeBSD-GNOME-Project" id="FreeBSD-GNOME-Project">FreeBSD GNOME Project</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/" title="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/">FreeBSD GNOME Project Homepage</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/" title="FreeBSD GNOME Project Homepage">http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Joe Marcus
Clarke
<<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
FreeBSD GNOME
Team
<<a href="mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org">gnome@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Since our last status report, we have added a new member to the
team: Jean-Yves Lefort (jylefort). We have even spiced up our
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/contact.html" shape="rect">contact
page</a>
with pictures of ourselves and in some cases, a cute hippo. And our
very own Adam Weinberger (adamw) has been made a GNOME Project
committer heading up the Canadian English translation project.</p>
<p>We have finished the port GNOME 2.12 to FreeBSD. However, due to
the ports slush in preparation for 6.0-RELEASE, the update has not
been merged into the official ports tree. If people are eager to
try out GNOME 2.12 while waiting for the ports tree to fully thaw,
we have
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html" shape="rect">
instructions</a>
on our website. GNOME 2.12 will be the first FreeBSD GNOME release
<em>not</em>
to include support for FreeBSD 4.X. While 4.X is still a very
viable release for servers, it lacks many of the features needed
for a Desktop Environment such as GNOME. We do plan to continue
support of the GNOME development platform on 4.X, however. This
includes Glib, GTK+, libgnome, etc. A new porting component will be
introduced with GNOME 2.12 called, ``ltverhack''. This will help
with future upgrades by keeping shared library versions from
needlessly changing.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD GNOME Project is also committed to providing our
users with a solid package experience. To that end, we have
extended our
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21" shape="rect">
Tinderbox</a>
to build amd64 packages for all supported versions of FreeBSD for
both the production and development releases of the GNOME Desktop.
The development packages are even built with debugging symbols to
better help with reporting problems.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>FreeBSD needs a
<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal" shape="rect">HAL</a>
port. HAL will be vital for both GNOME and KDE in providing FreeBSD
users with a smooth, elegant desktop experience. Once GNOME 2.12
has been merged into the ports tree, work will begin on making HAL
on FreeBSD a reality. Contact
<a href="mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">gnome@FreeBSD.org</a>
if you are interested in helping.</li><li>We need help with project documentation. In particular, we
need help auditing the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq.html" shape="rect">FAQ</a>
to make sure the content is still relevant, and we are not missing
any key items. If you're interested, please contact
<a href="mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">gnome@FreeBSD.org</a>
.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="FreshPorts" href="#FreshPorts" id="FreshPorts">FreshPorts</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freshports.org/" title="http://www.freshports.org/">FreshPorts</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freshports.org/" title="FreshPorts">http://www.freshports.org/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Dan
Langille
<<a href="mailto:dan@langille.org">dan@langille.org</a>>
</p>
<p>I'm in the process of adding personalized newsfeeds to the
website. For each of your Watch Lists, you will also have a news
feed just for that watch list. Any commit to any port in your watch
list will turn up on your newsfeed. This fantastic new feature is
available now for your RSS pleasure at
<a href="http://beta.freshports.org/" shape="rect">the BETA site</a>
. I've also been doing some work in the area of supporting multiple
platforms and architectures. This will allow FreshPorts to
correctly report that a port is broken, for example, on i386, but
not the other platforms. This feature will take note of BROKEN,
FORBIDDEN, and IGNORE for the following architectures:
<ul>
<li>alpha</li>
<li>amd64</li>
<li>i386</li>
<li>ia64</li>
<li>sparc64</li>
</ul>
And the following OSVERSIONS (subject to upgrade as new releases
come along):
<ul>
<li>492100</li>
<li>504102</li>
<li>600033</li>
<li>700001</li>
</ul>
Upcoming changes, in addition to the above, include:
<ol>
<li>NOT_FOR_ARCHS</li>
<li>ONLY_FOR_ARCHS</li>
<li>IS_INTERACTIVE</li>
</ol>
I've been getting useful help from those on IRC. Thanks.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>Complete the above.</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Ports-Collection" href="#Ports-Collection" id="Ports-Collection">Ports Collection</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/" title="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">The FreeBSD ports collection</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/" title="The FreeBSD ports collection">http://www.freebsd.org/ports/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">FreeBSD ports unfetchable distfile survey (Bill Fenner's report)</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/" title="FreeBSD ports unfetchable distfile survey (Bill Fenner's report)">http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au/~edwin/ports/" title="http://edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au/~edwin/ports/">FreeBSD ports updated distfile survey (Edwin Groothius' report)</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au/~edwin/ports/" title="FreeBSD ports updated distfile survey (Edwin Groothius' report)">http://edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au/~edwin/ports/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html" title="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html">FreeBSD ports monitoring system</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html" title="FreeBSD ports monitoring system">http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" title="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html">The FreeBSD Ports Management Team</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" title="The FreeBSD Ports Management Team">http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Mark
Linimon
<<a href="mailto:linimon@FreeBSD.org">linimon@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>A great deal of work has gone into the Ports Collection since
the last report in April, much of it behind-the-scenes.</p>
<p>As this report was being written, the 6.0 release was ongoing.
Due to the amount of time that it has taken to get 6.0 through the
beta process and into RC, we have been in ports freeze or slush for
more than two months. Unfortunately this has held back needed work
on the ports infrastructure.</p>
<p>The last major update to bsd.port.mk, in early May, was
coordinated by Kirill Ponomarew added a number of new features and
closed 15 PRs. Another similar set of changes has been tested and
is ready for commit after release.</p>
<p>portmgr welcomed two new members to its team: Erwin Lansing (who
had previously served as secretary, a role in which he is
continuing) and Clement Laforet. Clement is interested in speeding
up the adoption of new changes into the infrastructure, an item I'm
sure that that everyone can support. He promises to bring some
fresh ideas to bear on this, including the revitalization of
devel/portmk as a testing ground for new changes to bsd.port.mk in
which the larger community can help test changes.</p>
<p>The unfetchable distfile survey, which had been non-functional
for quite some time, was revitalized by Bill Fenner, with many new
pages of analysis added to it. Work is still ongoing. As a result
of this analysis, Bill and Mark Linimon eliminated nearly 100 lines
of bogus or outdated sites from bsd.sites.mk alone. They are
continuing to work through many other sites and ports as successive
iterations of the survey reveal more dimensions to the problem. We
still need more help from the larger community (see below).</p>
<p>Edwin Groothius has instituted a similar but slightly different
survey. His program attempts to visit each listed mastersite for
each distfile and determine whether or not a newer version might be
available. The results are stored in a database. This is helping to
automate a function that had been left up to individual maintainers
to look through numerous websites to try to find these updates. The
survey has been hugely (if not universally) popular. Already,
dozens of port updates have been committed as a direct result of
this service.</p>
<p>In addition, portsmon, which had been down due to a machine
change, was moved to portsmon.FreeBSD.org and updated during this
time. Many thanks to Erwin Lansing for providing the loan of this
machine, and Will Andrews for having provided the loan of the
previous incarnation.</p>
<p>Both of the above surveys are now generating periodic email to
ports maintainers advising them of problems. This is in addition to
recurring email from portsmon. The surveys allow individual
maintainers to ask to receive no further email. portsmon does not
currently have this but it needs to be added. Although we have no
doubt the mail can in some cases be annoying (especially given the
fact that there will inevitably be some false positives), the fact
is that these emails have had a direct impact on the quality on the
ports. We ask for patience from the community while each of us
continues to fine-tune the algorithms controlling what email is
generated. (Because of the number of emails these systems generate,
it is impossible to go over every one individually for a sanity
check).</p>
<p>As a result of bounces from the above email, we have also been
resetting maintainers who have become unreachable.</p>
<p>Pav Lucistnik has done a great deal of work on the Porter's
Handbook, including some much needed reshuffling and cleanup.
Expanded sections include Apache and PHP; Configure Scripts;
Dealing With Shared Libraries; Dealing With User Configuration
Files; Handling Empty Directories; Python; and Ruby. In addition,
Edwin Groothius has contributed a section on OPTIONS, and numerous
other sections have been improved by good suggestions from various
other contributors.</p>
<p>A new article, "Maintaining and contributing to the FreeBSD
Ports Collection", has been prepared by Sam Lawrance and has been
reviewed and is ready for commit. This document attempts to codify
the rights and responsibilities of ports maintainers, which until
now had merely been "community lore" as discussed on various
mailing lists.</p>
<p>We continue to add new committers regularly, 8 since the last
report.</p>
<p>The ports collection now contains over 13,500 ports. This is an
increase of over 750 since the last report in April.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>portmgr would like to ask maintainers and committers alike to
go through the status of their ports on the two distfile surveys,
both the one that shows unfetchable current distfiles and the one
that shows possibly updated distfiles. This is an effective way to
quickly help improve our user's perception of the state of the
ports.</li><li>A great deal of progress has been made in cracking down on
ports that install files outside the approved directories and/or do
not deinstall cleanly (see "Extra files not listed in PLIST" on
<a href="http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/" shape="rect">pointyhat</a>
). These ports are now a small minority thanks to the dedicated
efforts of a large number of individuals.</li><li>We still have a large number of PRs that have been assigned
to committers for some time (in fact, they constitute the
majority). portmgr members are now going through this list and
asking each committer to either commit them or release them to the
general pool so that someone else may work on them. In addition,
the existing policies for inactive maintainers (two weeks for
maintainer- timeout on PRs; three months for maintainer reset if no
activity) are going to be much more actively pursued than in the
past, where the policies were more honored in the breach than in
the observance. The goal is to try to bring the Ports Collection as
up-to-date as possible. (While there has been progress on many
fronts, there are still areas where ports are suffering from
bit-rot.)</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Ports-Tinderbox" href="#Ports-Tinderbox" id="Ports-Tinderbox">Ports Tinderbox</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com" title="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com">Tinderbox Homepage</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com" title="Tinderbox Homepage">http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Joe Marcus
Clarke
<<a href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Tinderbox
List
<<a href="mailto:tinderbox-list@marcuscom.com">tinderbox-list@marcuscom.com</a>>
</p>
<p>The Ports Tinderbox is a packaged system for building FreeBSD
ports in a clean environment. It can be used to test new ports,
updates to existing ports, or simply as a package building engine.
Tinderbox uses the same underlying code that the official FreeBSD
package build cluster, pointyhat, uses. So if a port builds under
Tinderbox, it is guaranteed to build on pointyhat.</p>
<p>More and more FreeBSD committers and ports maintainers are
starting to use Tinderbox. We just released version 2.1.0 which
added much-requested PostgreSQL support as well as fixed many bugs.
We expect a 2.1.1 release soon with some additional bug fixes.</p>
<p>With the 2.1.0 release of Tinderbox, we have branched the code
base so that we can focus on larger features in our HEAD branch
while still producing stable releases on a more frequent basis. The
biggest new feature planned for Tinderbox 3.0 is clustering support
which is being spearheaded by Ade Lovett (ade).</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>At this point, we really need help with documentation. Work
has begun on creating man pages for the various Tinderbox commands,
but we need help to churn them out at as faster rate. If you have
strong mdoc fu, and interested in helping us out, please contact
<a href="mailto:marcus@marcuscom.com" shape="rect">marcus@marcuscom.com</a>
.</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Vendor-/-3rd-Party-Software" href="#Vendor-/-3rd-Party-Software" id="Vendor-/-3rd-Party-Software">Vendor / 3rd Party Software</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Cronyx/Asterisk" href="#Cronyx/Asterisk" id="Cronyx/Asterisk">Cronyx/Asterisk</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html" title="http://www.cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html">Cronyx WAN Adapters</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html" title="Cronyx WAN Adapters">http://www.cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rik" title="http://www.freebsd.org/~rik">rik's Home Page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rik" title="rik's Home Page">http://www.freebsd.org/~rik</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Roman
Kurakin
<<a href="mailto:rik@FreeBSD.org">rik@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>A new netgraph-to-zaptel module that allows to use E1(ISDN PRI)
WAN adapters as an interface card for open source PBX - Asterisk.
All you need is an adapter that able to work in raw phone mode
(like Cronyx Tau-PCI/2E1), eq. without HDLC-like framing and that
has support of Netgraph.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="OpenBSD-packet-filter---pf" href="#OpenBSD-packet-filter---pf" id="OpenBSD-packet-filter---pf">OpenBSD packet filter - pf</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Max
Laier
<<a href="mailto:mlaier@freebsd.org">mlaier@freebsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Further improvements have been made to pfsync to make it behave
well in SMP scenarios. All bug fixes have been MFCed to RELENG_5
where applicable. A couple of bugfixes and feature improvements
have been imported via OpenBSD (originally suggested by FreeBSD
users).</p>
<p>As described in the last report, FreeBSD 6.0 and future RELENG_6
releases will be based on OpenBSD 3.7. Newer code will be imported
as soon as 6.0 has settled down a bit.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Miscellaneous" href="#Miscellaneous" id="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="BSDCan" href="#BSDCan" id="BSDCan">BSDCan</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/" title="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/" title="BSDCan">http://www.bsdcan.org/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Dan
Langille
<<a href="mailto:dan@langille.org">dan@langille.org</a>>
</p>
<p>We are in the process of recruiting new members for the program
committee. If you would like to volunteer before you are recruited,
please contact me.</p>
<p>The dates for 2006 have been announced: May 12-13, 2006. The
venue will be the same as previous events: University of Ottawa.
The prices will not increase from 2005.</p>
<p>Please start thinking about your papers. The call for papers
will go out soon.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="EuroBSDCon-2005---Basel" href="#EuroBSDCon-2005---Basel" id="EuroBSDCon-2005---Basel">EuroBSDCon 2005 - Basel</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/" title="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/" title="">http://www.eurobsdcon.org/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Information
<<a href="mailto:info@eurobsdcon.org">info@eurobsdcon.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The fourth European BSD conference in Basel, Switzerland is a
great opportunity to present new ideas to the community and to meet
some of the developers behind the different BSDs.</p>
<p>The two day conference program (Nov 26 and 27) will be
complemented by a tutorial day preceding the conference (Nov
25).</p>
<p>The FreeBSD developers will hold a DevSummit on Nov 24 and 25,
so several developers will be at the conference.</p>
<p>The program is available for
<a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-schedule-saturday.php" shape="rect">
Saturday</a>
and
<a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-schedule-sunday.php" shape="rect">
Sunday</a>
providing very interesting FreeBSD talks and topics.</p>
<p>Today more than 160 people from 25 countries have registered for
the conference.</p>
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