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<div id="contentwrap"><h1>Introduction</h1><p>This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between July and
September 2014. This is the third of four reports planned for
2014.</p><p>The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for
the FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM
platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in
FreeBSD 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to
improve the state of FreeBSD as a desktop operating system. As
usual, performance improvements feature in several places in
this report and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking
to validate our results.</p><p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p><p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from October
to December 2014 is January 7th, 2015.</p><hr /><h3><a href="#FreeBSD-Team-Reports">FreeBSD Team Reports</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#FreeBSD-Cluster-Administration-Team">FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team</a></li><li><a href="#FreeBSD-Release-Engineering-Team">FreeBSD Release Engineering Team</a></li><li><a href="#Ports-Collection">Ports Collection</a></li><li><a href="#The-FreeBSD-Core-Team">The FreeBSD Core Team</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Projects">Projects</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-(ASLR)">Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)</a></li><li><a href="#amd64-Xen-Paravirtualization">amd64 Xen Paravirtualization</a></li><li><a href="#bhyve">bhyve</a></li><li><a href="#Chelsio-iSCSI-Offload-Support">Chelsio iSCSI Offload Support</a></li><li><a href="#Debian-GNU/kFreeBSD">Debian GNU/kFreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#FreeBSD-Preseed-Installation-(PXE)">FreeBSD Preseed Installation (PXE)</a></li><li><a href="#Jenkins-Continuous-Integration-for-FreeBSD">Jenkins Continuous Integration for FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#New-Automounter">New Automounter</a></li><li><a href="#QEMU-bsd-user-Enabled-Ports-Building">QEMU bsd-user-Enabled Ports Building</a></li><li><a href="#VMWare-VAAI-and-Microsoft-ODX-Acceleration-in-CTL">VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX Acceleration in CTL</a></li><li><a href="#ZFSguru">ZFSguru</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Kernel">Kernel</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Intel-GPU-Driver-Update">Intel GPU Driver Update</a></li><li><a href="#SDIO-Driver">SDIO Driver</a></li><li><a href="#UEFI-Boot">UEFI Boot</a></li><li><a href="#Updated-vt(4)-System-Console">Updated vt(4) System Console</a></li><li><a href="#Updating-OpenCrypto">Updating OpenCrypto</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Architectures">Architectures</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#FreeBSD-on-Newer-ARM-Boards">FreeBSD on Newer ARM Boards</a></li><li><a href="#FreeBSD/arm64">FreeBSD/arm64</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Userland-Programs">Userland Programs</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#LLDB-Debugger-Port">LLDB Debugger Port</a></li><li><a href="#LLVM-Address-Sanitizer-(Asan)">LLVM Address Sanitizer (Asan)</a></li><li><a href="#SSE-Variants-of-libc-Routines-for-amd64">SSE Variants of libc Routines for amd64</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Ports">Ports</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#FreeBSD-Python-Ports">FreeBSD Python Ports</a></li><li><a href="#GNOME/FreeBSD">GNOME/FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#KDE-on-FreeBSD">KDE on FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#The-Graphics-Stack-on-FreeBSD">The Graphics Stack on FreeBSD</a></li><li><a href="#Xfce">Xfce</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Documentation">Documentation</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#Handbook-ezjail-Section">Handbook ezjail Section</a></li><li><a href="#Michael-Lucas-Books">Michael Lucas Books</a></li><li><a href="#ZFS-Chapter-of-the-Handbook">ZFS Chapter of the Handbook</a></li></ul><h3><a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3><ul><li><a href="#The-FreeBSD-Foundation">The FreeBSD Foundation</a></li></ul><ul></ul><hr /><br /><h1><a name="FreeBSD-Team-Reports" href="#FreeBSD-Team-Reports" id="FreeBSD-Team-Reports">FreeBSD Team Reports</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-Cluster-Administration-Team" href="#FreeBSD-Cluster-Administration-Team" id="FreeBSD-Cluster-Administration-Team">FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team</a></h2><p>
Contact: FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team <<a href="mailto:clusteradm@">clusteradm@</a>>
</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team consists of the people
responsible for administering the machines that the project
relies on for its distributed work and communications to be
synchronised. In this quarter, the team has worked on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Implemented a central, FreeBSD cluster-specific package
building node using <tt>ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel</tt>,
providing a single consistent set of third-party binary
packages throughout the FreeBSD cluster from a common,
known-working configuration.</li>
<li>Converted all machines running in the FreeBSD cluster from
individual (and sometimes different) userland and kernel
configurations to a single configuration for the base
system. This enabled the implementation of
a FreeBSD.org-specific binary update mechanism currently
deployed throughout the cluster.</li>
</ul>
<p>This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.</p><hr /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-Release-Engineering-Team" href="#FreeBSD-Release-Engineering-Team" id="FreeBSD-Release-Engineering-Team">FreeBSD Release Engineering Team</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/schedule.html" title="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/schedule.html">FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE schedule</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/schedule.html" title="FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE schedule">http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/schedule.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/" title="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/">FreeBSD development snapshots</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/" title="FreeBSD development snapshots">http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
FreeBSD
Release Engineering Team
<<a href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is responsible for setting
and publishing release schedules for official project releases
of FreeBSD, announcing code freezes and maintaining the
respective branches, among other things.</p>
<p>In mid-July, FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE was released without delay
in release cycle.</p>
<p>In late August, the FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of
this writing, is expected to stay on schedule.</p>
<p>Work to produce virtual machine images as part
of the release cycle has continued,
supporting various cloud services such
as Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, and Google Compute Engine.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.</p><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/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/" title="">http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/" title="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/" title="">http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html" title="http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html" title="">http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://portscout.freebsd.org/" title="http://portscout.freebsd.org/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://portscout.freebsd.org/" title="">http://portscout.freebsd.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" title="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html" title="">http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/" title="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/" title="">http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/" title="http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/" title="">http://www.twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.facebook.com/portmgr" title="http://www.facebook.com/portmgr"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/portmgr" title="">http://www.facebook.com/portmgr</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://plus.google.com/communities/108335846196454338383" title="http://plus.google.com/communities/108335846196454338383"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://plus.google.com/communities/108335846196454338383" title="">http://plus.google.com/communities/108335846196454338383</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Frederic
Culot
<<a href="mailto:portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org">portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Port
Management Team
<<a href="mailto:portmgr@FreeBSD.org">portmgr@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>As of the end of Q3, the ports tree holds a bit more than
24,000 ports, and the PR count is below 1,400. Despite the
summer holidays the tree saw sustained activity with more than
9,000 commits and almost 2,000 ports PRs closed!</p>
<p>In Q3, five new developers were granted a ports commit bit.
None were taken in for safekeeping.</p>
<p>On the management side, tabthorpe@ decided to step down from
his portmgr duties in July. No other changes were made to the
team during Q3.</p>
<p>This quarter also saw the release of the third quarterly
branch, namely 2014Q3.</p>
<p>On the QA side, 34 exp-runs were performed to validate
sensitive updates or cleanups.</p>
<p>Last, the 20th anniversary of the ports tree was commemorated
during Q3 and a video was published for this event.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Tremendous work was done on the PR front in Q3 and we would
be very pleased to see committers dedicate themselves to
closing as many as possible in Q4 as well.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="The-FreeBSD-Core-Team" href="#The-FreeBSD-Core-Team" id="The-FreeBSD-Core-Team">The FreeBSD Core Team</a></h2><p>
Contact: FreeBSD Core Team <<a href="mailto:core@FreeBSD.org">core@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Core Team constitutes the project's "Board of
Directors", responsible for deciding the project's overall
goals and direction as well as managing specific areas of the
FreeBSD project landscape.</p>
<p>The third quarter of this year was a relatively quiet time in
terms of Core Team activity. No major policy changes were
decided, but the criterea for awarding commit bits were reviewed
and the existing requirements were clarified and documented
at <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/internal/proposing-committers.html" shape="rect">http://www.freebsd.org/internal/proposing-committers.html</a>.</p>
<p>Other items dealt with by core during this period:</p>
<ul>
<li>Confirmed with Microsoft that it is permissible to include
DCTCP in FreeBSD.</li>
<li>Promoted git-beta.freebsd.org out of beta-test to an
official service, consequently renaming it to
git.freebsd.org.</li>
<li>Mediated between groups of contributors and committers
adopting different positions on the on-going work to
introduce ASLR and associated technologies.</li>
<li>Worked with the FreeBSD Foundation to obtain a license for
XenForo, and with the forum administrators on plans to
migrate the FreeBSD forums onto the FreeBSD cluster and to
switch to XenForo.</li>
</ul>
<p>During this period, three commit bits were granted, and two
commit bits were taken in for safe keeping.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Projects" href="#Projects" id="Projects">Projects</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-(ASLR)" href="#Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-(ASLR)" id="Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-(ASLR)">Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hardenedbsd.org/" title="http://hardenedbsd.org/">The HardenedBSD Project</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://hardenedbsd.org/" title="The HardenedBSD Project">http://hardenedbsd.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473" title="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473">ASLR review on Phabricator</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473" title="ASLR review on Phabricator">https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193940" title="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193940">EXP-RUN test results</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193940" title="EXP-RUN test results">https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193940</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201409DevSummit/ASLR" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201409DevSummit/ASLR">EuroBSDCon 2014 Devsummit page on ASLR</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201409DevSummit/ASLR" title="EuroBSDCon 2014 Devsummit page on ASLR">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201409DevSummit/ASLR</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AddressSpaceLayoutRandomization" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AddressSpaceLayoutRandomization">FreeBSD wiki page on ASLR</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AddressSpaceLayoutRandomization" title="FreeBSD wiki page on ASLR">https://wiki.freebsd.org/AddressSpaceLayoutRandomization</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Shawn
Webb
<<a href="mailto:shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org">shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Oliver
Pinter
<<a href="mailto:oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org">oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a computer
security technique that aids in mitigating low-level
vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows. ASLR randomizes the
memory layout of running applications, to prevent an attacker
from knowing where a given exploitable vulnerability lies in
memory.</p>
<p>A lot has happened in the last few months. Shawn Webb gave
presentations at both BSDCan 2014 and EuroBSDCon 2014. The
presentations were met with a lot of support and backing.
At the end of EuroBSDCon Ilya Bakulin fixed the known bug with
ASLR on ARM systems.
Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter have submitted our patch to
the Phabricator code review system. Shawn Webb added
an API for allowing a debugger to disable ASLR to
support deterministic debugging. Oliver Pinter enhanced the
performance of our ASLR implementation. A package building
exp-run was ran and came out favorably in terms of
performance. Shawn Webb bumped up the maximum number of bits
allowed to be randomized to 20 and set the default to 14.</p>
<p>Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter founded The HardenedBSD project
to serve as a staging area for their work on security-related
projects for FreeBSD.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by SoldierX.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Get more people testing and reviewing our patch</p>
</li><li>
<p>Run more performance tests</p>
</li><li>
<p>Figure out why the two ports failed in the EXP-RUN.
Involve the port maintainers.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Test on different architectures (we need help with
this)</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="amd64-Xen-Paravirtualization" href="#amd64-Xen-Paravirtualization" id="amd64-Xen-Paravirtualization">amd64 Xen Paravirtualization</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen">FreeBSD/Xen paravirtualised kernel support.</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen" title="FreeBSD/Xen paravirtualised kernel support.">https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Cherry
Mathew
<<a href="mailto:cherry@FreeBSD.org">cherry@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>This project aims to add support to the FreeBSD kernel for
running in Xen Paravirtualised mode on amd64 systems. This
project has finally reached a "Proof of Concept" stage on the
branch
<url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/amd64_xen_pv/">projects/amd64_xen_pv</url>.</p>
<p>Testing and bug reports on various configurations is
encouraged! The author is also seeking bounties to help
complete the effort and assess potential interest. Please
send email if interested.</p>
<p>PV kernels are still supported by most cloud providers for a
range of configurations, although they are expected to be
phased out in the future.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by Spectralogic Corporation (2012-2013).</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Large page support</p>
</li><li>
<p>SMP support</p>
</li><li>
<p>Debug and cleanup</p>
</li><li>
<p>Security vetting</p>
</li><li>
<p>Performance tweaks</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="bhyve" href="#bhyve" id="bhyve">bhyve</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.bhyve.org" title="http://www.bhyve.org">bhyve FAQ and talks</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.bhyve.org" title="bhyve FAQ and talks">http://www.bhyve.org</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOiSyu0-MA" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOiSyu0-MA">bhyve past, present, future</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOiSyu0-MA" title="bhyve past, present, future">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOiSyu0-MA</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Peter
Grehan
<<a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">grehan@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Neel
Natu
<<a href="mailto:neel@FreeBSD.org">neel@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
John
Baldwin
<<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Tycho
Nightingale
<<a href="mailto:tychon@FreeBSD.org">tychon@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Allan
Jude
<<a href="mailto:freebsd@allanjude.com">freebsd@allanjude.com</a>>
</p>
<p><tt>bhyve</tt> is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64
platform. At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux
i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests.
Current development is focused on enabling additional guest
operating systems and implementing features found in other
hypervisors.</p>
<p>A significant amount of progress has been made since the last
status report. Most importantly, all of this work has been
MFCed to the 10-STABLE branch and will be included in the 10.1
release.</p>
<p>Support for AMD processors is being developed in the
<tt>bhyve_svm</tt> SVN project branch. The branch is almost
at feature-parity with mainline Intel VT-x support, and will
be committed into -CURRENT in the near future.</p>
<p>New features added this quarter:</p>
<ul>
<li>Guest support for recent Linux i386/x64, OpenBSD
i386/amd64, and NetBSD amd64.</li>
<li>Force guest reset and poweroff with <tt>bhyvectl</tt></li>
<li>Allow the SMBIOS UUID to be set from the command line</li>
<li>PCI MMIO extended config space access</li>
<li>Improved AHCI error handling, legacy interrupt mode</li>
<li>Additional instruction emulation required by a number of
guests</li>
<li>Legacy x86 task switching to support double-faults in
FreeBSD/i386</li>
<li>Legacy PCI interrupts, operation without an APIC (OpenBSD
install)</li>
<li>Guest memory not included by default in core dumps</li>
<li>Allow guest vCPUs to be pinned to individual host
CPUs</li>
<li>Virtio RNG device emulation</li>
<li>Chapter about <tt>bhyve</tt> added to FreeBSD
Handbook</li>
</ul>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Improve documentation</p>
</li><li>
<p>CSM BIOS boot support for non UEFI-aware guests</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add support for virtio-scsi</p>
</li><li>
<p>Improve virtio-net, add offload features, support multiple
queues</p>
</li><li>
<p>Implement Intel 82580 and e1000 NIC emulation</p>
</li><li>
<p>Netmap support</p>
</li><li>
<p>Flexible networking backend: wanproxy, vhost-net</p>
</li><li>
<p>Move to a single process model, instead of
<tt>bhyveload</tt> and <tt>bhyve</tt></p>
</li><li>
<p>Support running <tt>bhyve</tt> as non-root</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add filters for popular VM file formats (VMDK, VHD,
QCOW2)</p>
</li><li>
<p>Implement an abstraction layer for video (no X11 or SDL in
base system)</p>
</li><li>
<p>Support for VNC as a video output</p>
</li><li>
<p>Suspend/resume support</p>
</li><li>
<p>Live Migration</p>
</li><li>
<p>Nested VT-x support (bhyve in bhyve)</p>
</li><li>
<p>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC)</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Chelsio-iSCSI-Offload-Support" href="#Chelsio-iSCSI-Offload-Support" id="Chelsio-iSCSI-Offload-Support">Chelsio iSCSI Offload Support</a></h2><p>
Contact:
Sreenivasa
Honnur
<<a href="mailto:shonnur@chelsio.com">shonnur@chelsio.com</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Edward Tomasz
Napierała
<<a href="mailto:trasz@FreeBSD.org">trasz@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator
stack released in FreeBSD 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun
developing an offload interface to take advantage of the
hardware offload capabilities of Chelsio T4 and T5 10 and 40
gigabit Ethernet adapters.</p>
<p>The code implements hardware PDU offload for both target and
initiator. The iSCSI stack has been modified to provide a
hardware-independent offload API, allowing offload drivers to
be loaded as kernel modules, and to provide mechanisms for the
system administrator to configure this feature. The project
is entering a testing phase. The code will be released under
the BSD license and is expected to be completed later in the
year and ship in FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by Chelsio Communications, and The FreeBSD Foundation.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Complete testing</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Debian-GNU/kFreeBSD" href="#Debian-GNU/kFreeBSD" id="Debian-GNU/kFreeBSD">Debian GNU/kFreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD" title="https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD">Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on the Debian Wiki</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD" title="Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on the Debian Wiki">https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/" title="https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/" title="">https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers <<a href="mailto:debian-bsd@lists.debian.org">debian-bsd@lists.debian.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a software distribution produced by
Debian, based on the kernel of FreeBSD (instead of Linux) and GNU
libc. Around 90% of Debian's software archive has now been
ported to it, for amd64 and i386 architectures. It was first
released with Debian "squeeze" as a development preview in
2011, featured again in the "wheezy" release, and hopes to be
part of the official Debian "jessie" release in early 2015.</p>
<p>In 2003 there were several attempts to bootstrap a minimal
Debian system upon FreeBSD or NetBSD kernels, some also trying to
use the native BSD libc. The most successful and
longest-lived of these was a "GNU/FreeBSD" chroot bootstrapped
by Robert Millan with the GNU libc that most of Debian's core
packages were designed to work with. The "k" was later added
to the name to reflect that it takes just the kernel from
FreeBSD, with most everything else from the Debian archive. We
do also package some FreeBSD utilities as needed to boot it
and take advantage of certain features.</p>
<p>FreeBSD support within GNU libc is now mostly maintained by Petr
Salinger, who recently converted it from an older threading
implementation based on LinuxThreads to NPTL, which is much
more compatible with the software we run. We have the GNU
compiler toolchain as well as Clang 3.4; Perl, Python and
Ruby; and OpenJDK 7, based the on work done in FreeBSD's own
ports collection. We use linprocfs for <tt>/proc</tt> because
much of Debian GNU software expects this. The Linuxulator
is not needed at all, but could make for interesting future
uses. Porting work mostly focuses now on individual packages'
build systems, on preprocessor #ifdefs that do not clearly
distinguish between kernel and libc, or fixing testsuites'
presumptions of Linux-specific behaviour. In the course of
this, we even found the odd FreeBSD kernel bug, including
EN-14:06 / CVE-2014-3880.</p>
<p>GNU/kFreeBSD has already seen production use, mostly on
webservers, email servers and file servers; one such machine
has 475 days' uptime receiving around 10,000 emails per day.
It has become increasingly practical for desktop/laptop uses
thanks largely to new features coming in from FreeBSD 10.1.</p>
<p>KMS graphics mean that 3D gaming and high-definition video
playback perform brilliantly. We have great support for Intel
graphics chipsets, but only an older nvidia Xorg driver. For
radeonkms, Robert Millan was able to add firmware-loading
support so that non-free binary blobs can be packaged
separately, outside of Debian's main archive. Proprietary
drivers are not useful to us as they would need to be rebuilt
from source to port them.</p>
<p><tt>vt(4)</tt> was necessary for KMS to not break VT
switching. But it has also improved the console's handling of
non-ASCII character sets and we do look forward to having
console fonts for non-Latin scripts.</p>
<p>We have supported ZFS for some time, even as a root/boot
filesystem (using GRUB 2; Robert Millan added the ZFS support
which now FreeBSD itself is able to benefit from). Enhancements
coming from OpenZFS, especially LZ4 compression, in
combination with better memory management and GEOM
improvements, mean that "jessie" should see a noticeable
performance boost.</p>
<p>debian-installer already allows for pre-seeded, unattended
installs and there are PXE-bootable install images
available.</p>
<p>virtio drivers are new to the "jessie" release, enabling
support for some public clouds. We are now compiling Xen domU
and PVHVM support into our standard kernel builds.</p>
<p>We already have userland tools to configure the PF firewall.
As an experiment, we are compiling in IPSEC support by
default for the upcoming release, and would like to see it put
to good use against present-day privacy and security
threats.</p>
<p>We try to support the use of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD inside a jail
on a FreeBSD host system, and hopefully vice-versa. Some of the
jail utilities are not yet packaged, but we have documentation
on the Debian Wiki on how to set up jails on "wheezy", which
are fully functional.</p>
<p>The init system we currently use is a parallel System V-style
init, although Debian GNU/Linux will be switching away from
that to systemd. For the next release we may switch to
OpenRC, which is mostly ported already.</p>
<p>Not having systemd or udev means that we will be unable to
support GNOME 3.14 in the upcoming release. We have very good
support for XFCE, also have KDE, LXDE and the
recently-packaged MATE desktop environment. The Debian
software archive provides many alternative window managers for
Xorg such as IceWM, dozens of terminal emulators, and so
on.</p>
<p>As we approach the freeze of the Debian "jessie" release,
we would love for anyone to test GNU/kFreeBSD, try to use it
for whatever would be useful to you, and let us know what
issues you run into. Ask for help on our project mailing list
or IRC channel, and let us know of any bugs you find. We
still have time to fix problems before release, and we would
be happy to improve our documentation at any time.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-Preseed-Installation-(PXE)" href="#FreeBSD-Preseed-Installation-(PXE)" id="FreeBSD-Preseed-Installation-(PXE)">FreeBSD Preseed Installation (PXE)</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed" title="">https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Kamil
Czekirda
<<a href="mailto:kczekirda@FreeBSD.org">kczekirda@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>This is a Google Summer of code project to provide
a noninteractive FreeBSD installation process from the network. In
the first part, an implementation was added for scripted
<tt>bsdinstall(8)</tt>. It supports variables such as KEYMAP,
HOSTNAME, MIRROR, RELEASE, TIMEZONE, DAEMONS, ROOTPWHASH, and
USERS. Network configuration, ZFS options, and others are
also included.</p>
<p>The second part of the project is about booting the
<tt>fai</tt> (Fully Automatic Installer) from the network by
PXE. An installer distro was created based on mfsBSD. After
boot, <tt>fai</tt> looks for the "bootfile-name" parameter
from the DHCP server. This parameter tells <tt>fai</tt> where
the <tt>bsdinstall</tt> script is located. <tt>fai</tt>
supports MAC-based configuration, or a default if a MAC-based
configuration file does not exist.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2014.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Documentation, including a HOWTO and handbook</p>
</li><li>
<p>More tests in different configurations</p>
</li><li>
<p>Support for more than one network interface is planned</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Jenkins-Continuous-Integration-for-FreeBSD" href="#Jenkins-Continuous-Integration-for-FreeBSD" id="Jenkins-Continuous-Integration-for-FreeBSD">Jenkins Continuous Integration for FreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://jenkins.freebsd.org" title="https://jenkins.freebsd.org">Jenkins CI server in FreeBSD cluster</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://jenkins.freebsd.org" title="Jenkins CI server in FreeBSD cluster">https://jenkins.freebsd.org</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins">Jenkins working group at DevSummit</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins" title="Jenkins working group at DevSummit">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/445.en.html" title="http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/445.en.html">Jenkins presentation at BSDCan</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/445.en.html" title="Jenkins presentation at BSDCan">http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events/445.en.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html" title="http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html">clang static analyzer</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html" title="clang static analyzer">http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://scan.freebsd.org" title="http://scan.freebsd.org">FreeBSD static analysis results</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://scan.freebsd.org" title="FreeBSD static analysis results">http://scan.freebsd.org</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_02-base_iso_100" title="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_02-base_iso_100">BSD Now episode 44</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_02-base_iso_100" title="BSD Now episode 44">http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_07_02-base_iso_100</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve" title="http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve">livirt and bhyve"</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve" title="livirt and bhyve"">http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/jmmv/kyua" title="https://github.com/jmmv/kyua">Kyua testing framework</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/jmmv/kyua" title="Kyua testing framework">https://github.com/jmmv/kyua</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-24521" title="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-24521">Issue to update Jenkins to JNA 4.1.0 for FreeBSD</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-24521" title="Issue to update Jenkins to JNA 4.1.0 for FreeBSD">https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-24521</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1387" title="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1387">Pull request #1 to upgrade JNA in Jenkins</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1387" title="Pull request #1 to upgrade JNA in Jenkins">https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1387</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1410" title="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1410">Pull request #2 to upgrade JNA in Jenkins</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1410" title="Pull request #2 to upgrade JNA in Jenkins">https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1410</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://jenkins.mouf.net/job/pkg/" title="http://jenkins.mouf.net/job/pkg/">Jenkins job for testing pkg</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://jenkins.mouf.net/job/pkg/" title="Jenkins job for testing pkg">http://jenkins.mouf.net/job/pkg/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193499" title="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193499">yacc bug found by kyua</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193499" title="yacc bug found by kyua">https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193499</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193246" title="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193246">IPv6 multicast join() problem found by Jenkins</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193246" title="IPv6 multicast join() problem found by Jenkins">https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193246</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/rodrigc/kyua/wiki/Quickstart-Guide" title="https://github.com/rodrigc/kyua/wiki/Quickstart-Guide">Kyua Quickstart Guide</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/rodrigc/kyua/wiki/Quickstart-Guide" title="Kyua Quickstart Guide">https://github.com/rodrigc/kyua/wiki/Quickstart-Guide</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Craig
Rodrigues
<<a href="mailto:rodrigc@FreeBSD.org">rodrigc@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact: Jenkins Administrators <<a href="mailto:jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org">jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact: FreeBSD Testing <<a href="mailto:freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>In May, Craig Rodrigues led a working group <em>Continuous
Integration and Testing with Jenkins for FreeBSD</em> at the
FreeBSD Devsummit in Ottawa. Craig Rodrigues also gave a Jenkins
presentation at BSDCan.</p>
<p>At BSDCan, Craig Rodrigues had some discussions with Julio Merino
about how to better integrate FreeBSD testing efforts with
Jenkins and kyua. As a result of this discussion, Julio Merino
enhanced the <tt>kyua</tt> testing framework with a
<tt>kyua report-junit</tt> command. This command takes kyua
test results and outputs a test report in JUnit XML format.
Jenkins can directly import JUnit XML test results and display
them nicely.</p>
<p>In June, Craig Rodrigues was interviewed for episode 44 of BSD
Now. The interview covered Jenkins and Continuous Integration
in the FreeBSD project.</p>
<p>In July, Craig Rodrigues gave a presentation to the Bay Area FreeBSD
Users Group (BAFUG), <em>Libvirt and bhyve</em>, based on
experience he had with those technologies when used with
Jenkins.</p>
<p>Li-Wen Hsu set up a Jenkins job to run the LLVM scan-build
tool to perform static analysis of the FreeBSD code, and make the
results availalble at <tt>scan.freebsd.org</tt>.</p>
<p>Steve Wills modified the Jenkins job which builds
<tt>pkg(8)</tt> to use the <tt>kyua report-junit</tt> command
to integrate <tt>pkg(8)</tt> test results in Jenkins.</p>
<p>Anthony Williams reported that the version of the Java
Native Access (JNA) library bundled with Jenkins has problems
on FreeBSD. This causes problems with Jenkins using libpam and
other plugins that use JNA. Craig filed JENKINS-24521
against Jenkins. Craig submitted patches to Jenkins to update
Jenkins to use JNA 4.1.0, which has fixes for FreeBSD. </p>
<p>Craig Rodrigues worked on automatically running the tests in the
FreeBSD <tt>/usr/tests</tt> directory under Jenkins using the
<tt>kyua</tt> test framework. Craig Rodrigues provided feedback
to Julio Merino about <tt>kyua</tt> and Julio Merino incorporated some
of the feedback as bugfixes and feature enhancements to
<tt>kyua</tt>. Craig Rodrigues committed some fixes to FreeBSD to
eliminate some test failures. One of the tests still results
in a crash in byacc. This is being tracked in PR 193499.
Thomas E. Dickey (byacc maintainer) submitted a patch to fix
the problem, and this has been committed to FreeBSD.</p>
<p>Craig Rodrigues analyzed the cause of some startup errors in
Jenkins when opening a multicast socket. He had some
discussion with Bruce M. Simpson captured in PR 193246. The Java JDK
depends on functionality in Solaris where it is possible to
open an IPv4 multicast socket, but with an IPv4 multicast
address mapped to an IPv6 address. On Linux, there are
modifications to the JDK itself to work around this. Bruce M. Simpson
said that the work to make the FreeBSD IPv6 stack behave like
Solaris would require some work.</p>
<p>Craig Rodrigues started writing a Kyua Quickstart Guide. This
guide is meant to help new kyua users who want to write tests
and run them under kyua. Craig Rodrigues is seeking feedback to
help improve this guide.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Upstream more fixes to Jenkins for FreeBSD, such as JNA
fixes.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Automate the build of <tt>/usr/tests</tt>.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Set up more builds based on examples from the existing FreeBSD
Tinderbox.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Get feedback for improving the Kyua Quickstart Guide.</p>
</li><li>
<p>We need more people to join us on
freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.org and help out. We especially
need people with devops and scripting experience to help us
set up more builds and tests. We would also like to
integrate with other parts of the project, such as
Phabricator.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="New-Automounter" href="#New-Automounter" id="New-Automounter">New Automounter</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Automounter" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Automounter"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Automounter" title="">https://wiki.freebsd.org/Automounter</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf" title="http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf" title="">http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/autofs.pdf</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Edward Tomasz
Napierała
<<a href="mailto:trasz@FreeBSD.org">trasz@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Limitations of the current automounter, <tt>amd(8)</tt>, are
a recurring problem reported by many FreeBSD users. A new
automounter is being developed to address these concerns.</p>
<p>The automounter is a cleanroom implementation of
functionality available in most other Unix systems, using
proper kernel support implemented via an autofs filesystem.
The automounter supports a standard map format, and will
integrate with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) service.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation worked with enterprise and university
users to test the new automounter in existing LDAP-based
environments, including some with thousands of map
entries.</p>
<p>The code is now ready to use. It has been committed to
11-CURRENT and 10-STABLE, and will ship as part of
10.1-RELEASE. There is ongoing work on improving performance
and fixing possible bugs.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.</p><hr /><h2><a name="QEMU-bsd-user-Enabled-Ports-Building" href="#QEMU-bsd-user-Enabled-Ports-Building" id="QEMU-bsd-user-Enabled-Ports-Building">QEMU bsd-user-Enabled Ports Building</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo">Generic Explanation of QEMU bsd-user</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo" title="Generic Explanation of QEMU bsd-user">https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages" title="http://chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages">Current ARMv6 Packages</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages" title="Current ARMv6 Packages">http://chips.ysv.freebsd.org/packages</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user" title="https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user">Github repo of development source</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user" title="Github repo of development source">https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Sean
Bruno
<<a href="mailto:sbruno@FreeBSD.org">sbruno@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Juergen
Lock
<<a href="mailto:nox@FreeBSD.org">nox@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Stacey
Son
<<a href="mailto:sson@FreeBSD.org">sson@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>FreeBSD packages for the Tier-1 i386 and amd64 CPU architectures
are built by a single very high-performance machine. Other
architectures lack equivalent hardware, and we began
experimenting with QEMU's user-mode emulation to cross-build
packages from an amd64 builder.</p>
<p>We have moved from just being able to produce packages to
providing a stable repo of packages for ARMv6.</p>
<p><tt>ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel</tt> is still the current
method for building packages. See the previous status report for
explanations and details on methods.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="VMWare-VAAI-and-Microsoft-ODX-Acceleration-in-CTL" href="#VMWare-VAAI-and-Microsoft-ODX-Acceleration-in-CTL" id="VMWare-VAAI-and-Microsoft-ODX-Acceleration-in-CTL">VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX Acceleration in CTL</a></h2><p>
Contact:
Alexander
Motin
<<a href="mailto:mav@FreeBSD.org">mav@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI
server, got support for VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX
storage acceleration. It permits avoiding network
bottlenecks and improves storage efficiency on sets of large
operations, such as virtual machine (or large file) creation,
initialization to zeros, copy, delete, etc..</p>
<p>VMWare VAAI includes support for these primitives/SCSI
commands: Atomic Test and Set (ATS) — COMPARE AND
WRITE command; Extended Copy (Clone) — SPC-3 subset
of XCOPY commands; Write Same (Zero) — set of WRITE
SAME commands; and Dead Space Reclamation (Delete) — UNMAP
command.</p>
<p>Microsoft ODX includes support for these SCSI commands:
POPULATE TOKEN/WRITE USING TOKEN (SPC-4 extensions of
XCOPY), WRITE SAME and UNMAP.</p>
<p>All XCOPY operations are currently limited to one storage
host. ODX operations are currently limited only to iSCSI
disks. Accelerated inter-host copying or copying to/from
files on Samba shares is not implemented and is handled by
initiators in the legacy way.</p>
<p>The code is committed to FreeBSD head and stable/10 branches,
and will be present in FreeBSD 10.1 and FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 /
9.3 releases.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by iXsystems, Inc..</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Full support for thin provisioning, including capacity
usage reporting and threshold notifications.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Inter-host XCOPY operations.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="ZFSguru" href="#ZFSguru" id="ZFSguru">ZFSguru</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://zfsguru.com" title="http://zfsguru.com"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://zfsguru.com" title="">http://zfsguru.com</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://zfsguru.com/news/stateoftheproject/2014" title="http://zfsguru.com/news/stateoftheproject/2014"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://zfsguru.com/news/stateoftheproject/2014" title="">http://zfsguru.com/news/stateoftheproject/2014</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://zfsguru.com/forum/zfsgurudevelopment/876" title="http://zfsguru.com/forum/zfsgurudevelopment/876"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://zfsguru.com/forum/zfsgurudevelopment/876" title="">http://zfsguru.com/forum/zfsgurudevelopment/876</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Jason
Edwards
<<a href="mailto:sub.mesa@gmail.com">sub.mesa@gmail.com</a>>
</p>
<p>ZFSguru is a multifunctional server appliance with a strong
emphasis on storage. ZFSguru began as simple web-interface
frontend to ZFS, but has since grown into a FreeBSD derivative
with its own infrastructure. The scope of the project has
also grown with the inclusion of add-on packages that add
functionality beyond the traditional NAS functionality found
in similar product like FreeNAS and NAS4Free. ZFSguru aims to
be a true multifunctional server appliance that is extremely
easy to set up and can unite both novice and more experienced
users in a single user interface. The modular nature of the
project combats the danger of bloat, whilst still allowing
extended functionality to be easily deployed.</p>
<p>The development work in Q3 focused heavily on the new build
infrastructure. This allows the ZFSguru project to release
new system images together with addon services at much higher
frequency and with much less manual intervention. This should
free up a lot of development time to be spent on the core of
the project: the web interface.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a new website and forum is being worked on,
replacing the old-fashioned website that offers only limited
functionality. The new website will be linked to the server
database, providing real-time updates about the project.</p>
<p>In addition, a new platform for collaborated development is
in the works. A service addon has been created for the GitLab
project, which is a drop-in replacement of the popular GitHub
website. The choice was made to host our own solution and not
rely on GitHub itself. In retrospect this appears to have
been a good decision. The recent development where GitHub
removed projects after DCMA-takedowns being sent is
incompatible with the philosophy of free-flow-of-information,
of which the ZFSguru project is a strong proponent. By
hosting our own solution, we have avoided any dependency on
third party projects.</p>
<p>The next task will be to introduce a new remote database
structure, dubbed GuruDB. This will speed up the
web-interface as well as introduce Service Bulletins which
address important notifications to our users, as well as
announce new releases.</p>
<p>After GuruDB, the Migration Manager is one of the last
remaining features still missing in the web-interface. This
functionality provides an easy way to upgrade the current
system by performing a new clean installation, but migrate all
relevant configuration to the new installation. It also
allows users to 'backup' all system configuration in a single
file to be stored on a different machine should things go
awry.</p>
<p>A longer version of the 2014 development progress of the
ZFSguru project and information specific to the newly-released
10.1-002 system image can be found in the Links section.</p>
<hr /><br /><h1><a name="Kernel" href="#Kernel" id="Kernel">Kernel</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Intel-GPU-Driver-Update" href="#Intel-GPU-Driver-Update" id="Intel-GPU-Driver-Update">Intel GPU Driver Update</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-October/052532.html" title="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-October/052532.html">Email thread with patch updates and regression test reports.</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-October/052532.html" title="Email thread with patch updates and regression test reports.">https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-October/052532.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Konstantin
Belousov
<<a href="mailto:kib@FreeBSD.org">kib@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver
(i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code
continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been
made available to test for regressions against current
functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new
functions. The GEM I/O ioctl code path has been modified to
more closely resemble the Linux code structure (easing future
imports).</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Fix any bugs reported against the latest versions of the patch.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Make Haswell graphics work with Mesa.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="SDIO-Driver" href="#SDIO-Driver" id="SDIO-Driver">SDIO Driver</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO">SDIO project page on FreeBSD wiki</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO" title="SDIO project page on FreeBSD wiki">https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/kibab/freebsd/tree/mmccam" title="https://github.com/kibab/freebsd/tree/mmccam">Source code</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/kibab/freebsd/tree/mmccam" title="Source code">https://github.com/kibab/freebsd/tree/mmccam</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D862" title="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D862">Patch for review</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D862" title="Patch for review">https://reviews.freebsd.org/D862</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Ilya
Bakulin
<<a href="mailto:ilya@bakulin.de">ilya@bakulin.de</a>>
</p>
<p>SDIO is an interface designed as an extension of the existing
SD card standard, allowing the connection of different peripherals
to a host with a standard SD controller. Peripherals
currently sold in the general market include WLAN/BT modules,
cameras, fingerprint readers, and barcode scanners. SDIO is
also used to connect some peripherals in products like
Chromebooks and Wandboard.</p>
<p>The current main focus of the project is to reimplement the
existing MMC/SD stack using the CAM framework. This will
allow utilizing the well-tested CAM locking model and debug
features.</p>
<p>The first version of the code was uploaded on Phabricator for
review. The new stack is able to attach to the SD card and
bring it to an operational state. The only supported SD
controller driver is <tt>ti_sdhci</tt> which is used by the
BeagleBone Black. Modifying other SDHCI-compliant drivers
should not be a hard task.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>At this point, feedback from kernel developers is really
needed. This may be done in the form of code review. If
the chosen way of implementing the CAM-aware MMC stack is
considered correct, then adding code for interacting with SD
cards (for example, setting the optimal transfer rates) will
be the next task.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Write a CAM peripheral driver that implements an interface
to the FreeBSD <tt>disk(9)</tt>. It will send MMC I/O
commands using the MMC XPT layer.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Extending <tt>camcontrol(8)</tt> to make it possible to
send MMC-specific commands directly to the MMC/SD card using
pass(4) will greatly assist in developing new features for
the stack.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Modify the <tt>sdhci(4)</tt> driver to work with the new
stack. This is required to work on the new stack using PC
hardware, not only the BeagleBone Black.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="UEFI-Boot" href="#UEFI-Boot" id="UEFI-Boot">UEFI Boot</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI">FreeBSD UEFI wiki page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI" title="FreeBSD UEFI wiki page">https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/" title="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/">FreeBSD snapshots</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/" title="FreeBSD snapshots">http://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Ed
Maste
<<a href="mailto:emaste@FreeBSD.org">emaste@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Nathan
Whitehorn
<<a href="mailto:nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org">nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, or UEFI, provides
boot- and run-time services for x86 and other computers. For
the x86 architecture it replaces the legacy BIOS. This
project will adapt the FreeBSD loader and kernel boot process for
compatibility with UEFI firmware, found on contemporary
servers, desktops, and laptops.</p>
<p>Over the last three months Ed and others refined the existing
UEFI support and merged it to the stable/10 branch for the
upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release.</p>
<p>To avoid the risk of a regression, the standard FreeBSD 10.1
install images continue to use the existing partitioning
scheme and support only legacy BIOS boot. Separate
UEFI-enabled installer images will be included with 10.1.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Document manual installation, including dual-boot
configurations.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Implement boot1.efi for ZFS file systems.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add support for UEFI variables stored in non-volatile
memory (NVRAM).</p>
</li><li>
<p>Debug boot failures with certain UEFI firmware
implementations.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Support secure boot.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Updated-vt(4)-System-Console" href="#Updated-vt(4)-System-Console" id="Updated-vt(4)-System-Console">Updated vt(4) System Console</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons">Project wiki page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons" title="Project wiki page">https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Aleksandr
Rybalko
<<a href="mailto:ray@FreeBSD.org">ray@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Ed
Maste
<<a href="mailto:emaste@FreeBSD.org">emaste@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Ed
Schouten
<<a href="mailto:ed@FreeBSD.org">ed@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Jean-Sébastien
Pédron
<<a href="mailto:dumbbell@FreeBSD.org">dumbbell@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Warren
Block
<<a href="mailto:wblock@FreeBSD.org">wblock@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The <tt>vt(4)</tt> (aka <tt>Newcons</tt>) project provides
a replacement for the legacy <tt>syscons</tt> system console.
It brings a number of improvements, including better
integration with graphics modes and broader character set
support.</p>
<p>A large number of improvements were committed to
<tt>vt(4)</tt> over the last three months.
Jean-Sébastien Pédron fixed significant
performance regressions observed with <tt>vt_vga</tt>,
particularly noticeable on virtual machines. Stefan Esser
converted and cleaned up all of the keyboard map files for use
with <tt>vt(4)</tt>.</p>
<p>The EFI framebuffer driver and the ofwfb driver now work
with the xf86-video-scfb X11 video driver, supporting
native-resolution (albeit unaccelerated) X.</p>
<p>The fixes and improvements have all been merged and will be
available in the upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Implement the remaining features supported by
<tt>vidcontrol(1)</tt>.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Write manual pages for <tt>vt(4)</tt> drivers and kernel
interfaces.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Support direct handling of keyboards by the <tt>kbd</tt>
device (without <tt>kbdmux(4)</tt>).</p>
</li><li>
<p>CJK fonts. This is in progress.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Switch to <tt>vt(4)</tt> by default.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Implement compatibility mode to be able to use single-byte
charsets/key-codes in <tt>vt(4)</tt>.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Updating-OpenCrypto" href="#Updating-OpenCrypto" id="Updating-OpenCrypto">Updating OpenCrypto</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/opencrypto" title="https://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/opencrypto">Source in Perforce</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/opencrypto" title="Source in Perforce">https://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/opencrypto</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/freebsd-foundation-announces-ipsec.html" title="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/freebsd-foundation-announces-ipsec.html">FreeBSD Foundation announces IPsec Enhancement Project</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/freebsd-foundation-announces-ipsec.html" title="FreeBSD Foundation announces IPsec Enhancement Project">http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/freebsd-foundation-announces-ipsec.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
John-Mark
Gurney
<<a href="mailto:jmg@FreeBSD.org">jmg@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The project adds support for the AES-GCM and AES-CTR
cryptography modes to the OpenCrypto framework. Both software
and AES-NI accelerated versions are now functional and
working. Ermal Luçi (eri@) is working on adding support for
these additional modes to IPsec.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, and Netgate.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Create a test suite for the most common modes.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Architectures" href="#Architectures" id="Architectures">Architectures</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-on-Newer-ARM-Boards" href="#FreeBSD-on-Newer-ARM-Boards" id="FreeBSD-on-Newer-ARM-Boards">FreeBSD on Newer ARM Boards</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://github.com/tsgan/qualcomm" title="https://github.com/tsgan/qualcomm">Some preliminary code for Snapdragon board IFC6410</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://github.com/tsgan/qualcomm" title="Some preliminary code for Snapdragon board IFC6410">https://github.com/tsgan/qualcomm</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Ganbold
Tsagaankhuu
<<a href="mailto:ganbold@FreeBSD.org">ganbold@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Work on initial support of the IFC6410 board, which was
stopped due to a bricked bootloader, has been started again.
This board has the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC, featuring the
Krait CPU. This CPU is considered a "platform" for use in
smartphones, tablets, and smartbook devices. Krait has many
similarities with the ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and is also based on
the ARMv7 instruction set. These peripherals are working:</p>
<ul>
<li>Qualcomm High Speed UART driver for MSM 7000/8000 series
chips (included in <tt>src</tt> tree)</li>
<li>Krait Timer</li>
</ul>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Get the MMC driver working. May need more help from
experts.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="FreeBSD/arm64" href="#FreeBSD/arm64" id="FreeBSD/arm64">FreeBSD/arm64</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/arm64/" title="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/arm64/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/arm64/" title="">http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/arm64/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Andrew
Turner
<<a href="mailto:andrew@FreeBSD.org">andrew@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Until recently, all ARM CPU designs were 32-bit only. With
the introduction of the ARMv8 architecture, ARM has added a
new 64-bit mode. This new mode has been named AArch64. Arm64
is the name of the in-progress port of FreeBSD to ARMv8 CPUs when
in AArch64 mode.</p>
<p>Since the last status report, FreeBSD has started to execute
userland instructions. This includes implementing more of the
needed kernel functions to handle creation of processes.
Using clang to compile userland has found a few issues with
the version in the base system. These issues are expected to
be resolved when clang 3.5 is imported.</p>
<p>Initial support for device drivers has been added. This
includes the start of the <tt>bus_space</tt> functions and
interrupt handling. This allowed the existing timer and
interrupt controller drivers from armv6 to be used as these
devices are similar. The FDT data is now being passed from
the loader to the kernel using the standard mechanism.</p>
<p>The pmap implementation has been changed to be based on the
amd64 code. This fixes a number of issues with the old
implementation.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Boot to multi-user mode</p>
</li><li>
<p>Get dynamic libraries working</p>
</li><li>
<p>Test on real hardware</p>
</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Userland-Programs" href="#Userland-Programs" id="Userland-Programs">Userland Programs</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="LLDB-Debugger-Port" href="#LLDB-Debugger-Port" id="LLDB-Debugger-Port">LLDB Debugger Port</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/lldb" title="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/lldb"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/lldb" title="">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/lldb</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Ed
Maste
<<a href="mailto:emaste@FreeBSD.org">emaste@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>LLDB is the debugger project associated with Clang/LLVM. It
supports the Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD platforms, with Windows
support under development. It builds on existing components
in the larger LLVM project, for example using Clang's
expression parser and LLVM's disassembler.</p>
<p>Work over the last three months consisted mainly of
maintenance, ensuring that the upstream FreeBSD port continues to
build and that testsuite failures are promptly addressed.</p>
<p>I plan to import a new LLDB snapshot after the base system
Clang is updated to 3.5. Some upstream improvements that will
be in that import include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to specify a count to thread step-*
operations.</li>
<li>Ongoing AArch64 development.</li>
<li>Significant progress on the lldb-gdbserver debug
stub.</li>
<li>I/O handling improvements.</li>
<li>A much faster C++ name demangler for most symbols.</li>
</ul>
<p>A proof-of-concept implementation of kernel debugging support
for amd64 was completed as part of Google Summer of Code. It
is not ready to be committed, but will form the basis for
upcoming kernel debugging support.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by DARPA/AFRL, SRI International, and University of Cambridge.</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Port remote debug stub (lldb-gdbserver) from Linux to
FreeBSD.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add support for local and core file kernel debugging.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Implement, fix or test support on all non-amd64
architectures.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Verify cross-debugging.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Investigate and fix test suite failures.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Package LLDB as a port.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Enable by default in the base system for working
architectures.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="LLVM-Address-Sanitizer-(Asan)" href="#LLVM-Address-Sanitizer-(Asan)" id="LLVM-Address-Sanitizer-(Asan)">LLVM Address Sanitizer (Asan)</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/" title="https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/" title="">https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html" title="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html" title="">http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer_x86_64-freebsd" title="http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer_x86_64-freebsd">Buildbot</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer_x86_64-freebsd" title="Buildbot">http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer_x86_64-freebsd</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060270.html" title="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060270.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060270.html" title="">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060270.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060504.html" title="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060504.html"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060504.html" title="">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060504.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Viktor
Kuzutov
<<a href="mailto:vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com">vkutuzov@accesssoftek.com</a>>
</p>
<p>The LLVM address sanitizer (Asan) is a fast memory error
detector that can detect use-after-free errors and buffer
overflows. It has been ported to FreeBSD. The mainline version
of LLVM is known to pass all of the tests in the LLVM and Asan
test suites without unexpected failures on FreeBSD 10.0.</p>
<p>A buildbot running sanitizer tests under FreeBSD stable/10
has been established. See the Links section.</p>
<p>To make it possible to run programs with sanitizer
checks enabled on FreeBSD, a new sysctl named
<tt>kern.proc_vmmap_skip_resident_count</tt> has been added.
See the Links section. Running the address sanitizer checks
on stable/10 requires this sysctl to be set to 1.</p>
<p>A similar work is in progress to add FreeBSD support to the
thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel
programs.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="SSE-Variants-of-libc-Routines-for-amd64" href="#SSE-Variants-of-libc-Routines-for-amd64" id="SSE-Variants-of-libc-Routines-for-amd64">SSE Variants of libc Routines for amd64</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://trac.baldwin.cx:8080/freebsd/wiki/LibCSSE" title="http://trac.baldwin.cx:8080/freebsd/wiki/LibCSSE"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://trac.baldwin.cx:8080/freebsd/wiki/LibCSSE" title="">http://trac.baldwin.cx:8080/freebsd/wiki/LibCSSE</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
John
Baldwin
<<a href="mailto:jhb@FreeBSD.org">jhb@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>I have written SSE/AVX-optimized versions of a few
<tt>libc</tt> routines for amd64. So far the list includes
<tt>memcpy</tt>, <tt>memset</tt>, and <tt>strlen</tt>. For
each routine I have written a simple regression test as well
as performed some simple microbenchmarks on various AMD and
Intel CPUs.</p>
<p>The simplest routine is <tt>strlen</tt> which appears to be a
general win in microbenchmarks. <tt>memcpy</tt> and
<tt>memset</tt> have proven trickier as different variants can
behave quite differently on different CPUs.</p>
<p>At present, I do not yet have a patch relative to
<tt>libc</tt>. Once I do, this will be suitable for more
testing. I would like to see some real-world benchmarks that
show measurable improvement before pushing any of this up into
the tree.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Create a branch that holds a modified <tt>libc</tt> and is
suitable for testing</p>
</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Ports" href="#Ports" id="Ports">Ports</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="FreeBSD-Python-Ports" href="#FreeBSD-Python-Ports" id="FreeBSD-Python-Ports">FreeBSD Python Ports</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python" title="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python">The FreeBSD Python Team Page</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python" title="The FreeBSD Python Team Page">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net" title="irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net">IRC channel</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net" title="IRC channel">irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
FreeBSD
Python Team
<<a href="mailto:python@FreeBSD.org">python@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Python team continued to improve the overall
experience with Python-based software on FreeBSD.</p>
<p>During the last quarter, the <tt>bsd.python.mk</tt> bits of
the ports infrastructure were converted to the more modern
<tt>USES</tt> format. Several options, such as support for
<tt>easy_install</tt>, were deprecated or removed to make the
infrastructure easier to maintain and less complex for
port maintainers.</p>
<p>The Python ports were refactored and simplified to improve
maintainability and to get rid of long-standing issues due to the
previously complex and error-prone build process.</p>
<p>The Python 2 branch was updated to Python 2.7.8 and
<tt>setuptools</tt> to 5.5.1.</p>
<p>With the availability of pkg 1.3, installing Python packages
and modules for different Python versions is now supported in
the package management infrastructure. This allows us to
remove the previously required port duplicates for Python 2
and Python 3.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Retire the Python 3 specific port duplicates</p>
</li><li>
<p>Convert ports to the new <tt>USES</tt> syntax</p>
</li><li>
<p>More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see
Links).</p>
</li><li>
<p>To get involved, interested people can say hello on IRC
and let us know their areas of interest!</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="GNOME/FreeBSD" href="#GNOME/FreeBSD" id="GNOME/FreeBSD">GNOME/FreeBSD</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"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome" title="">http://www.freebsd.org/gnome</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD" title="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD" title="">https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild/FreeBSD</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge" title="http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge" title="">http://marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
FreeBSD GNOME Team
<<a href="mailto:gnome@FreeBSD.org">gnome@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface
that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is
part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like
operating systems, including FreeBSD.</p>
<p>MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to
the 1.8 versions.</p>
<p>Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, has been
updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin.
We are currently doing test builds to find ports broken by the
update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of
incompatible updates.</p>
<p>Gustau Perez started preliminary work on the next development
version of GNOME in MC, to be ready for GNOME 3.15. We will
skip 3.14 entirely.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Finish the GNOME 3.12 merge, and start tracking GNOME 3.15
(development series).</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="KDE-on-FreeBSD" href="#KDE-on-FreeBSD" id="KDE-on-FreeBSD">KDE on FreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://freebsd.kde.org/" title="https://freebsd.kde.org/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://freebsd.kde.org/" title="">https://freebsd.kde.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php" title="https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php" title="">https://freebsd.kde.org/area51.php</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE" title="">https://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd" title="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd" title="">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://portscout.freebsd.org/kde@freebsd.org.html" title="http://portscout.freebsd.org/kde@freebsd.org.html">PortScout</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://portscout.freebsd.org/kde@freebsd.org.html" title="PortScout">http://portscout.freebsd.org/kde@freebsd.org.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
KDE on FreeBSD team
<<a href="mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org">kde@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The KDE on FreeBSD team focuses on packaging and making sure the
experience of KDE and Qt on FreeBSD is as good as possible.</p>
<p>First of all, we are happy to announce that Alonso Schaich,
longtime contributor to our experimental area51 repositories,
has become a ports committer, mentored by KDE on FreeBSD members
Raphael Kubo da Costa (rakuco@) and Max Brazhnikov
(makc@).</p>
<p>During this quarter, the team has kept most of the KDE and Qt
ports up-to-date, working on the following releases:</p>
<ul>
<li>CMake 3.0.1 and 3.0.2</li>
<li>PyQt 4.11.1, SIP 4.16.2, QScintilla 2.8.3</li>
<li>DigiKam 4.2.0 (in area51)</li>
<li>KDE 4.13.3, 4.14.0 and 4.14.1 (in area51)</li>
<li>KDE Telepathy 0.8.0 (in area51)</li>
</ul>
<p>Additionally, work on updating the Qt5 ports to the 5.3
series has begun, and we intend to commit the updated ports in
our experimental area51 repository to the ports tree in
Q4.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Updating out-of-date ports, see the Links Portscout entry
for a list.</p>
</li><li>
<p>Committing all the updated ports we have been accumulating
in our experimental repositories into the ports tree.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="The-Graphics-Stack-on-FreeBSD" href="#The-Graphics-Stack-on-FreeBSD" id="The-Graphics-Stack-on-FreeBSD">The Graphics Stack on FreeBSD</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics" title="Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix">https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk" title="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Graphics stack ports-related development repository</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk" title="Graphics stack ports-related development repository">http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-October/000096.html" title="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-October/000096.html">Removal of legacy X.Org announcement</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-October/000096.html" title="Removal of legacy X.Org announcement">http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-October/000096.html</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/" title="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/">XDC 2014</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/" title="XDC 2014">http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
FreeBSD Graphics team
<<a href="mailto:x11@FreeBSD.org">x11@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The newest graphics stack (that is, the set of ports conditional on the
<tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> knob) was enabled on all architectures.
The only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and FreeBSD 8.X or
9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and
therefore <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> will not work (the last
UMS-aware version does not work with xserver 1.12). Users can
still use <tt>xf86-video-vesa</tt> if they cannot or do not
want to update their FreeBSD workstation. Owners of Radeon GPUs
can use <tt>xf86-video-ati-ums</tt> 6.14.6 with
<tt>xserver</tt> 1.12 if the KMS driver is not available (that
is, before FreeBSD 9.3).</p>
<p>The old graphics stack will be removed with the next update
to these ports. See the announcement in the Links
section.</p>
<p>Hardware context support was added to the i915 driver in both
HEAD and 10.1-RELEASE. This will allow us to update libglapi,
libGL, dri, libEGL and libglesv2 ports to a newer version of
Mesa. The latest version is already available from our
development ports tree (see the links section).</p>
<p>Cairo was updated to 1.12. This will allow the FreeBSD GNOME
team to upgrade pango and Gtk+ 3. Unfortunately, the update
also revealed that xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 was in a much worse
state than previously assumed.</p>
<p>We will attend XDC 2014 (X.Org Developer's Conference) from
October 8th through 10th in Bordeaux, France. The goal is to
reconnect with graphics stack developers, who are mostly working with
Linux these days. We will give a presentation on the current
state of this stack on FreeBSD. See the XDC website in the Links
section for the program and live streaming.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
information.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="Xfce" href="#Xfce" id="Xfce">Xfce</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce" title="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce" title="">https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.redports.org/browser/olivierd/xfce4" title="http://www.redports.org/browser/olivierd/xfce4">devel repo</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.redports.org/browser/olivierd/xfce4" title="devel repo">http://www.redports.org/browser/olivierd/xfce4</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce4-4.11-screencast.webm" title="https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce4-4.11-screencast.webm">Video showing significant changes</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce4-4.11-screencast.webm" title="Video showing significant changes">https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce4-4.11-screencast.webm</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
FreeBSD Xfce Team
<<a href="mailto:xfce@FreeBSD.org">xfce@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and
Unix-like platforms including FreeBSD. It aims to be fast and
lightweight while still being visually appealing and easy to
use.</p>
<p>The Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce
Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next
stable release (no date scheduled). There were no major
updates in the ports tree except for cosmetic changes this
quarter.</p>
<p>Major upcoming changes include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Switch to the <tt>USES</tt> framework</li>
<li>Support both GTK2 and GTK3, with GTK2 being the
default.</li>
<li>A GNOME-like default icons theme</li>
<li>Enhanced documentation (handbooks, FAQ)</li>
</ul>
<p>Below is a list of current ports in the devel repository (see
link).</p>
<ul>
<li>deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin 0.7.0</li>
<li>devel/xfce4-dev-tools 4.11.0</li>
<li>misc/xfce4-appfinder 4.11.0</li>
<li>multimedia/xfce4-parole 0.6.1 and 0.7.0</li>
<li>sysutils/garcon 0.3.0</li>
<li>sysutils/xfce4-settings 4.11.3</li>
<li>x11/libxfce4menu 4.11.1</li>
<li>x11/libxfce4util 4.11.0</li>
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-desktop 4.11.8</li>
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-panel 4.11.1</li>
<li>x11-wm/xfce4-session 4.11.0</li>
</ul>
<p>There are also two new ports</p>
<ul>
<li>deskutils/xfce4-volumed-pulse 0.2.0</li>
<li>x11/xfce4-dashboard 0.2.3 and 0.3.2</li>
</ul>
<p>For more details, please see our wiki page in the Links
section.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Finish patching the ACPI helper (xfce4-power-manager).</p>
</li><li>
<p>Continue to work on documentation, especially the Porter's
Handbook, and creata a FAQ).</p>
</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Documentation" href="#Documentation" id="Documentation">Documentation</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="Handbook-ezjail-Section" href="#Handbook-ezjail-Section" id="Handbook-ezjail-Section">Handbook ezjail Section</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-ezjail.html" title="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-ezjail.html">Managing Jails with ezjail</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-ezjail.html" title="Managing Jails with ezjail">https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-ezjail.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Warren
Block
<<a href="mailto:wblock@FreeBSD.org">wblock@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p><tt>ezjail</tt> is a very popular jails management utility,
but was only mentioned in passing in the Handbook. This new
section describes basic setup and usage. An in-depth example
shows how to create and configure a jail. It also serves as
an example of how to run a simple caching-only BIND in a
jail.</p>
<hr /><h2><a name="Michael-Lucas-Books" href="#Michael-Lucas-Books" id="Michael-Lucas-Books">Michael Lucas Books</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2088" title="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2088">book announcement</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2088" title="book announcement">http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2088</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2119" title="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2119">pre-pub availability announcement</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2119" title="pre-pub availability announcement">http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2119</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=freebsd-mastery-storage-essentials" title="https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=freebsd-mastery-storage-essentials">in-progress draft</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=freebsd-mastery-storage-essentials" title="in-progress draft">https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=freebsd-mastery-storage-essentials</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Michael
Lucas
<<a href="mailto:mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com">mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com</a>>
</p>
<p>Lucas is working on a series of small FreeBSD books. The
first one, FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, is underway,
and covers GEOM, gpart, MBR, UFS, GELI, GBDE, disk sector
alignment, and more. You can pre-order the book at a discount
from his web site, or wait for it to hit print and all major
ebook retailers.</p>
<p>Get status updates on his blog, or check @mwlauthor on
Twitter.</p>
<h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Lucas needs to write faster.</p>
</li></ol><hr /><h2><a name="ZFS-Chapter-of-the-Handbook" href="#ZFS-Chapter-of-the-Handbook" id="ZFS-Chapter-of-the-Handbook">ZFS Chapter of the Handbook</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs.html" title="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs.html">ZFS Section of the FreeBSD Handbook</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs.html" title="ZFS Section of the FreeBSD Handbook">https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs.html</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Allan
Jude
<<a href="mailto:allanjude@FreeBSD.org">allanjude@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Benedict
Reuschling
<<a href="mailto:bcr@FreeBSD.org">bcr@FreeBSD.org</a>>
<br />
Contact:
Warren
Block
<<a href="mailto:wblock@FreeBSD.org">wblock@FreeBSD.org</a>>
</p>
<p>ZFS is one of the premier features of FreeBSD, and the quality
of the documentation should match that of other important
features. Much of the original documentation from Sun and
Oracle has disappeared, moved, or is about the proprietary
version of ZFS. The OpenZFS project does not provide much
documentation and instead provides users with a few links,
including the FreeBSD Handbook. New users have many questions
about ZFS and yet there exists a great deal more bad advice
about ZFS than proper documentation.</p>
<p>After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added
to the FreeBSD Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the basics
of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. Advanced
features like compression, deduplication, and delegation are
covered. The chapter also contains a glossary of terms,
explaining a number of the concepts unique to ZFS, and
documents some of the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can
be used for tuning.</p>
<p>The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which
aims to help users address the most common questions or
problems they might face with ZFS. We would like to hear
experiences, questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling
blocks and suggestions for the FAQ section from other users.
A use cases section that highlights some of the cases where
ZFS provides advantages over traditional file systems is also
planned.</p>
<p>Please send suggestions to the docs mailing list.</p>
<p>This project was sponsored by ScaleEngine Inc..</p><h3>Open tasks:</h3><ol><li>
<p>Technical review by Matt Ahrens (co-creator of
ZFS)</p>
</li><li>
<p>Improve the delegation section</p>
</li><li>
<p>Improve the tuning section, and cover recently added sysctls</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add a section on jails and the jailed property</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add an FAQ section</p>
</li><li>
<p>Add a Use Cases section</p>
</li><li>
<p>General editing and review</p>
</li></ol><hr /><br /><h1><a name="Miscellaneous" href="#Miscellaneous" id="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h1><br /><h2><a name="The-FreeBSD-Foundation" href="#The-FreeBSD-Foundation" id="The-FreeBSD-Foundation">The FreeBSD Foundation</a></h2><table title="Links" style="white-space: nowrap;"><tr><td>Links</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/" title="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"></a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/" title="">http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://freebsdjournal.com/" title="http://freebsdjournal.com/">FreeBSD Journal</a></td><td>
URL: <a href="http://freebsdjournal.com/" title="FreeBSD Journal">http://freebsdjournal.com/</a></td></tr></table><p>
Contact:
Deb
Goodkin
<<a href="mailto:deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org">deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</a>>
</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project
and community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to
support FreeBSD development projects, conferences, and developer
summits, purchase equipment to grow and improve the FreeBSD
infrastructure, and provide legal support for the Project.</p>
<p>We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We
have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on
adding support for the Dynamic Edition which will be available
soon. The fifth issue is also due out soon.</p>
<p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the
PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran
the benchmarks as a configuration error may have affected
earlier results. Improvements arising from the investigation
are merged to the FreeBSD 10 development branch and will be in
the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual
memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.</p>
<p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napierała
refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated
feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts.
The automounter is available in the development branch of
FreeBSD and will be included in FreeBSD 10.1. Edward also
supported engineers at Chelsio in preparing iSCSI offload
support for Chelsio's 10- and 40-gigabit per second Ethernet
adapters.</p>
<p>Ed Maste, our project manager, tested and integrated UEFI
system boot and new vt(4) console work into the release branch
for the upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release. He committed a number
of small toolchain and build infrastructure improvements. He
also wrote an article on LLDB for the FreeBSD Journal and
presented the LLDB work at EuroBSDCon.</p>
<p>FreeBSD Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer
Glen Barber continued work on finalizing the 9.3-RELEASE
process, followed by starting the 10.1-RELEASE process.</p>
<p>Work has continued on producing regularly-updated FreeBSD
development snapshot builds for the various supported
architectures, which include amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc,
powerpc64, sparc64, and arm.</p>
<p>In addition, work has been committed to a project branch
which allows FreeBSD virtual machine disk images to be produced
by default as part of the release process.</p>
<p>A plan has been put together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p>
<p>More hardware has been purchased to support FreeBSD infrastructure at NYI
and Sentex.</p>
<p>We announced a collaboration between the Foundation and Cavium to
deliver a FreeBSD ARMv8 based implementation.</p>
<p>We signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the
TCKs for Java 7 and 8.</p>
<p>Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer
Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code
student to attend the summit.</p>
<p>We provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran
BSDDay in Argentina.</p>
<p>We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the
Developer Summit. We provided 4 travel grants to assist FreeBSD
contributors with their travel expenses to attend the
conference. We also had 6 board/staff members attend the
conference and some gave talks, tutorials, and chaired some
sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and
raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.</p>
<p>We organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is
happening November 3 and 4.</p>
<p>Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil
published the second edition of "The Design and Implementation
of the FreeBSD Operating System."</p>
<p>Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the FreeBSD kernel
and gave a talk on the implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p>
<p>Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13
(fossetcon.org).</p>
<p>We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events,
including the Grace Hopper conference.</p>
<p>We started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep
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