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From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
To: announce@freebsd.org
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, April-June, 2013
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:45:20 +0100
Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, April-June 2013

Introduction

   This report covers FreeBSD-related projects between April and June,
   2013. This is the second of four reports planned for 2013.

   The last three months have been very active for the FreeBSD developer
   community, including events such as BSDCan and the FreeBSD Developer
   Summit collocated with it (covered in a separate report, see the BSDCan
   Developer Summit Special) and BSD-Day 2013. It has also seen
   improvements from the top to the bottom of the FreeBSD system. Desktop
   users will be pleased to note work on improving the state of AMD GPUs
   and making the console interaction with kernel mode setting -- required
   for recent xorg drivers -- cleaner and from continued work to make
   binary packages easier to use. Developers will note continued
   improvements to our toolchain, with a new debugger being prepared for
   integration. Server users will benefit from various improvements to
   virtualization support and scalability in the kernel. Of course, the
   FreeBSD system is nothing without applications to run atop it, and this
   quarter has seen some tireless work by members of the ports team to
   ensure that users have a wide choice of desktop and development
   environments, with highlights from the GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and Haskell
   teams in this report.

   Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
   contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

   The deadline for submissions covering between July and September, 2013
   is October 7th, 2013.
     __________________________________________________________________

FreeBSD Team Reports

     * FreeBSD Core Team
     * FreeBSD Postmaster Team
     * FreeBSD Release Engineering Team
     * FreeBSD Security Team

Projects

     * PC-BSD
     * Virtual Private Systems

Kernel

     * AMD GPU Kernel Mode-setting Support
     * Improved TCP SYN Cookies
     * Multi-threaded Pagedaemon
     * Native iSCSI Stack
     * Newcons Reboot
     * Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB Wireless Driver
     * SDIO Driver
     * V4L2 Update in the Linuxulator
     * Wireless Networking Improvements
     * Xen Support Improvements
     * ZFS TRIM and Enhanced BIO_DELETE Support

Architectures

     * Intel IOMMU (VT-d, DMAR) Support
     * Superpages for ARMv7

Userland Programs

     * bsdconfig(8) and sysrc(8)
     * bsnmpd(1) Support in hastd(8)
     * Capsicum
     * LLDB Debugger Port

Ports

     * FreeBSD Haskell Ports
     * GNOME/FreeBSD
     * KDE/FreeBSD
     * Xfce/FreeBSD
     * xorg on FreeBSD

Documentation

     * Upgrading the Documentation Set to DocBook 5.0

Events

     * BSD-Day 2013

Google Summer of Code

     * New Capsicum Features
     * Qt and GTK+ Frontends for pkg(8)

Miscellaneous

     * The FreeBSD Foundation
     __________________________________________________________________

AMD GPU Kernel Mode-setting Support

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU

   Contact: Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

   Due to non-FreeBSD-related activities from April to end of June, the
   project progressed slowly:

     * Some important problems in TTM were fixed and several others are
       being worked out. Applications affected by these bugs are
       non-linear video editing software (which do not use Xv to preview
       the video) or "screen" of VirtualBox, for instance.
     * Regarding the locking issue with OpenGL, no work has been done yet.
       glxgears works but some modern desktop environments or WebGL demos
       hang. Once TTM bugs described above are fixed, this is the next
       target.
     * Patches to Mesa to make it build out-of-the-box were submitted
       upstream. As of writing, some were committed but not all of them.
       Additionally, as result of a joint work with Jonathan Gray (of
       OpenBSD), Mesa should work on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and hopefully on
       other BSD flavors without additional patches.

   Several users tested the driver. Andriy Gapon, Jonathan Gray, and Mark
   Kettenis (of OpenBSD) submitted patches. kyzh kindly donated several
   discrete cards from different series. A big thanks to all those
   contributors!

   The driver is still not stable enough for a wider call for testers.

Open tasks:

    1. Write instructions for the wiki to explain how to test the driver.
     __________________________________________________________________

BSD-Day 2013

   URL: http://bsdday.eu/2013
   URL: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJJHfhjb5TOjB-sHRwJBGWd8XA7nc1gk_
   URL: https://picasaweb.google.com/116452848880746560170/BSDDay2013?authkey=Gv1sRgCNvIoMWoxNTRYw

   Contact: Gábor Páli <pgj@FreeBSD.org>

   The BSD-Day is a now recurring excuse for BSD developers and users to
   meet up in person, share some beers and talk about what they are
   working on these days. There was a detour this year to visit the
   beautiful city of Naples of Italy, the home of pizza. Fortunately, the
   event has again gained support from numerous and generous sponsors,
   such as The FreeBSD Foundation, the EMC Corporation, iXsystems,
   FreeBSDMall, BSD Magazine, and many others which enabled us to cover
   the costs of travel and accommodation for the speakers. We are really
   grateful for this.

   Similarly to the previous years, the whole event started with a dinner
   in the downtown (somewhere around the Irish Pub) on Friday which
   suddenly turned into a do-it-yourself pizza-fest. Then it was followed
   by the Saturday event at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging.
   There we had a lot of attendees for the associated BSDA exam in the
   morning -- 8 persons. The event itself had many interesting topics as
   well, for example moving MCLinker into the BSD world, organization and
   culture of the FreeBSD Project, the new callout(9) framework, building
   and testing ports with Poudriere and Tinderbox, FreeBSD in the embedded
   space, or building reliable VPN networks with OpenBSD. See the links in
   the report for more.
     __________________________________________________________________

bsdconfig(8) and sysrc(8)

   URL: http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/

   Contact: Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>

   New utilities have been introduced in FreeBSD base system: bsdconfig(8)
   and sysrc(8). bsdconfig(8) is a replacement for the post-install
   abilities of deprecated sysinstall(8), while sysrc(8) is a robust
   utility for managing rc.conf(5) from the command line without a text
   editor.
     __________________________________________________________________

bsnmpd(1) Support in hastd(8)

   Contact: Mikolaj Golub <trociny@FreeBSD.org>

   A hastd(8) module for bsnmpd(1) has been committed to FreeBSD head and
   merged to the stable/8 and stable/9 branches recently. This module
   makes it possible to monitor and manage hastd(8) via the SNMP protocol.
     __________________________________________________________________

Capsicum

   URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
   URL: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/cl-capsicum-discuss

   Contact: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Capsicum Mailing List <cl-capsicum-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk>

   Capsicum, a lightweight OS capability and sandboxing framework, is
   being actively worked on. In the last few months the following tasks
   have been completed:

     * Committed Capsicum overhaul to FreeBSD head (r247602). This allows
       to use capability rights in more places, simplifies kernel code and
       implements ability to limit ioctl(2) and fcntl(2) system calls.
     * hastd(8) is now using Capsicum for sandboxing, as whitelisting
       ioctls is possible (r248297).
     * auditdistd(8) is now using Capsicum for sandboxing, as it is now
       possible to setup append-only restriction on file descriptor
       (available in Perforce).
     * Implemented connectat(2) and bindat(2) system calls for UNIX domain
       sockets that are allowed in capability mode (r247667).
     * Implemented chflagsat(2) system call (r248599).
     * Revised the Casper daemon for application capabilities.
     * Implemented libcapsicum for application capabilities.
     * Implemented various Casper services to be able to use more
       functionality within a sandbox: system.dns, system.pwd, system.grp,
       system.random, system.filesystem, system.socket, system.sysctl.
     * Implemented Capsicum sandboxing for kdump(1) (from r251073 to
       r251167). The version in Perforce also supports sandboxing for the
       -r flag, using Casper services.
     * Implemented Capsicum sandboxing for dhclient(8) (from r252612 to
       r252697).
     * Implemented Capsicum sandboxing for tcpdump(8) (available in
       Perforce).
     * Implemented Capsicum sandboxing for libmagic(3) (available in
       Perforce).
     * Implemented the libnv library for name/value pairs handling in the
       hope of wider adaptation across FreeBSD.

   For Capsicum-based sandboxing in the FreeBSD base system, the commits
   referenced above and the provided code aim to serve as examples. We
   would like to see more FreeBSD tools to be sandboxed -- every tool that
   can parse data from untrusted sources, for example. This requires deep
   understanding of how the tool in question works, not necessarily only
   Capsicum.

   This work is being sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.

Open tasks:

    1. Get involved, make the Internet finally(!) a secure place. Contact
       us at the cl-capsicum-discuss mailing list, where we can provide
       guidelines on how to do sandboxing properly. The fame is there,
       waiting.
     __________________________________________________________________

FreeBSD Core Team

   Contact: FreeBSD Core Team <core@FreeBSD.org>

   In the second quarter of 2013, the Core Team approved a new Security
   Officer, Dag-Erling Smørgrav and his deputy, Xin Li. The Core Team
   acknowledges Simon Nielsen, the outgoing Security Officer, for his work
   in the role. Peter Wemm took the lead on the reorganization and
   administration of the FreeBSD cluster, and with the Core Team's
   approval, Glen Barber and Ryan Steinmetz were welcomed to the cluster
   administration team.

   Based on the recommendation and experiences of Martin Wilke, the Core
   Team also supported establishing a liaison role between port managers
   and release engineers in order to improve their communication,
   especially for preparing releases. The Core Team welcomes Bryan Drewery
   to this role.

   Following up on the request from Eitan Adler, the Core Team agreed to
   remove CVS from the base system, which was soon followed by importing a
   lightweight version of Subversion tools, implemented by Peter Wemm.

   There were src commit bits issued for 3 new developers and 1 existing
   committer received extension in this quarter.
     __________________________________________________________________

FreeBSD Haskell Ports

   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Haskell
   URL: https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/ports/
   URL: http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/packages/

   Contact: Gábor Páli <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@FreeBSD.org>

   We are proud to announce that the FreeBSD Haskell Team has updated the
   Haskell Platform to 2013.2.0.0, GHC to 7.6.3, as well as updated
   existing ports to their latest stable versions. In this update, we
   provided experimental support for LLVM-based code generation (disabled
   by default) to Haskell ports. We also added a number of new ports,
   which brings their count in the FreeBSD Ports Collection to 402, and
   now Haskell ports play nicer with portmaster(8)-based upgrades.

   In cooperation with Konstantin Belousov and Dimitry Andric, we have
   managed to unbreak the build of GHC on 32-bit 10.x systems, so we have
   packages for 10.x again. However, it turned out that this bug (in
   thread signal delivery) can also affect the building process for other
   platforms as well, which explains some of the strange build breakages
   our users experienced in the past.

   We have also learned that there is ongoing work in the GHC upstream
   which will allow us to provide support for building with Clang natively
   once GHC 7.8 becomes part of the Haskell Platform.

Open tasks:

    1. Test experimental Clang/LLVM code generation support to enable it
       by default.
    2. Commit pending Haskell ports to the ports tree.
    3. Port more (popular) Cabal packages.
     __________________________________________________________________

FreeBSD Postmaster Team

   Contact: FreeBSD Postmaster Team <postmaster@FreeBSD.org>

   In the second quarter of 2013, the FreeBSD Postmaster Team has
   implemented the following items that may be interest of the general
   public:

     * With help from clusteradm, found that unbound (the resolver used on
       mx1 and mx2) is configured to perform DNSSEC validation which
       implies that if a signed zone fails validation, unbound refuses to
       use the information. This had caused one person to be unable to
       exchange email with FreeBSD.org until the zone signatures were
       refreshed.
     * Created the freebsd-dtrace mailing list, requested by George
       Neville-Neil.
     * Resurrected the freebsd-testing mailing list, requested by Garrett
       Cooper.
     * Created the freebsd-tex mailing list, requested by Hiroki Sato.
     * In response to another comment that our message rejection message
       was unclear in the case that greylisting was the reason, re-worded
       that message.
     * Augmented the allowable MIME types for secteam with the following
       to permit sending encrypted messages:
          + application/pgp-encrypted
          + application/pkcs7-encrypted
          + application/x-pkcs7-encrypted
          + multipart/encrypted
     * Began replacing freebsd-mozilla with freebsd-gecko.
     __________________________________________________________________

FreeBSD Release Engineering Team

   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.4R/errata.html
   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/schedule.html

   Contact: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org>

   The FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE cycle completed on June 7, 2013, approximately
   two months behind the original schedule. Please be sure to read the
   Errata Notices for any post-release issues discovered after
   8.4-RELEASE.

   The FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE process will begin July 6, 2013. Unless any
   critical issues arise, FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is expected to be available
   late August or early September.

   Users tracking the FreeBSD 9.X branch are encouraged to test the -BETA
   and -RC builds whenever possible, and provide feedback and report
   issues to the freebsd-stable mailing list.
     __________________________________________________________________

FreeBSD Security Team

   Contact: FreeBSD Security Team <secteam@FreeBSD.org>

   On April 15th Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Xin Li took over as security
   officers for the FreeBSD Project, and the team welcomed Qing Li back to
   the team in June. This report briefly summarizes the work of the
   Security Team from April until the end of June.

   The Security Team has released the following advisories:

     * FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver: Insufficient input validation in the
       NFS server (nfsd(8)), reported by Adam Nowacki.
     * FreeBSD-SA-13:06.mmap: Privilege escalation via mmap(), reported by
       Konstantin Belousov.

   The Security Team has contributed to the following errata notices:

     * FreeBSD-EN-13:02.vtnet: Frames are not properly forwarded to
       vtnet(4) when two or more MAC addresses are configured on QEMU
       1.4.0 and later in 8.4-RELEASE, reported by Julian Stecklina.
     * FreeBSD-EN-13:01.fxp: Initialization of fxp(4) network interfaces
       results in an infinite loop with dhclient(8) in 8.4-RELEASE,
       reported by Michael L. Squires.

   Per the request of Baptiste Daroussin, the Security Team has also
   reviewed the source code of Poudriere, the port build and test system
   which is planned to be used for producing pkg(8) ("new-style") packages
   on the FreeBSD cluster.
     __________________________________________________________________

GNOME/FreeBSD

   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/

   Contact: FreeBSD GNOME Team <gnome@FreeBSD.org>

   The GNOME 3.6 work is moving along slowly but steadily. Almost all the
   GNOME 3 desktop ports were updated to their corresponding 3.6 versions.

   A big challenge was taken by getting the webkit-gtk3 port updated to
   2.0.3. Currently programs using webkit-gtk3 crash on launch. It is hard
   to find the causes as the debug build of webkit-gtk either runs out of
   memory or disk space on the developement system used.

Open tasks:

    1. Update the FreeBSD GNOME website with recent changes in the ports
       tree, add new items in preparation for GNOME 3 and Mate, etc.
    2. Merge Glib 2.36, GTK+ 3.8 and related ports back to the Ports
       Collection.
    3. Continue work on GNOME 3.6, fix bugs and write code for missing
       features.
    4. Complete the port of MATE.
     __________________________________________________________________

Improved TCP SYN Cookies

   URL: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=28838+0+current/freebsd-net
   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/syncookie-20130708.diff

   Contact: Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>

   We have had a SYN cookie implementation for quite some time now but it
   has some limitations with current realities for window scaling and SACK
   encoding the in the few available bits.

   This patch updates and improves SYN cookies mainly by:

    1. Encoding of MSS, WSCALE (window scaling) and SACK into the ISN
       (initial sequence number) without the use of timestamp bits.
    2. Switching to the very fast and cryptographically strong SipHash-2-4
       hash MAC algorithm to protect the SYN cookie against forgery.

   The common parameters used on TCP sessions have changed quite a bit
   since SYN cookies were invented some 17 years ago. Today we have a lot
   more bandwidth which makes use of window scaling almost mandatory. Also
   SACK has become standard as it makes recovering from packet loss much
   more efficient.

   The original SYN cookies method only stored an indexed MSS value in the
   cookie. This obviously is not sufficient any more and breaks in the
   presence of WSCALE. WSCALE information is only exchanged during SYN and
   SYN-ACK. If we cannot keep track of it then we severely underestimate
   the available send or receive window, compounded with the fact that
   with large window scaling the window size information on the TCP
   segment header would be even lower numerically.

   A number of years back, SYN cookies were extended to store the
   additional state in the TCP timestamp fields, if available on a
   connection. It has been adopted by Linux as well. While timestamps are
   common among the BSD, Linux and other Unix systems, Windows never
   enabled them by default, thus they are not present for the vast
   majority of clients seen on the Internet.

   The new improvement in this patch moves all necessary information into
   the ISN again, removing the need for timestamps. Both the MSS and send
   WSCALE are stored in 3 bit indexed form together with a single bit for
   SACK. While we cannot represent all possible MSS and WSCALE values in
   only 3 bits each (both are 16-bit fields in the TCP header), it turns
   out that is not actually necessary.

   These improvements allow one to run with SYN cookies only on
   Internet-facing servers. However while SYN cookies are calculated and
   sent all the time, they are only used when the syn cache overflows due
   to attacks or overload. In that case though, you can rest assured that
   no significant degradation in TCP connection setup happens any more and
   that even Windows clients can make use of window scaling and SACK.

Open tasks:

    1. Additional testing on busy servers.
     __________________________________________________________________

Intel IOMMU (VT-d, DMAR) Support

   URL: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/vt-directed-io-spec.html
   URL: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-May/014368.html
   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/dmar.1.patch

   Contact: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

   Intel VT-d is a set of extensions that were originally designed to
   allow virtualizing devices. It allows safe access to physical devices
   from virtual machines and can also be used for better isolation and
   performance increases. A VT-d driver was developed that implements the
   busdma(9) interface using the DMA Remap units (DMARs) found in current
   Intel chipsets. The driver provides reliability and security
   improvements for the system by facilitating restricted access to main
   memory from busmastering devices.

   It also eliminates bounce buffering (copying) by allocating remapped
   regions that satisfy a device's access limitations.

   With additional work to define a suitable interface the VT-d driver
   will also provide PCI pass-through functionality for hypervisors.

   This project is sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.

Open tasks:

    1. Implement workarounds for chipset errata.
    2. Commit to HEAD after additional testing.
    3. Rebalance MSI/MSI-X using interrupt remapping unit, also required
       for x2APIC use on big machines.
    4. Integrate with the Intel GPU MMU and handle Ironlake and
       SandyBridge errata for the GFXVTd unit.
    5. Provide an interface for VMM (hypervisors).
    6. Consider implementing a driver for AMD's IOMMU.
     __________________________________________________________________

KDE/FreeBSD

   URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org
   URL: http://FreeBSD.kde.org/area51.php

   Contact: KDE FreeBSD <kde@FreeBSD.org>

   The KDE/FreeBSD Team has continued to improve the experience of KDE
   software and Qt under FreeBSD. During this quarter, the team has kept
   most of the KDE and Qt ports up-to-date, working on the following
   releases:

     * KDE SC: 4.10.2, 4.10.3, 4.10.4
     * Qt: 5.0.2 (area51)
     * PyQt: 4.10.2; QScintilla 2.7.2; SIP: 4.14.7
     * KDevelop: 4.5.1
     * Calligra: 2.6.2
     * CMake: 2.8.11.1
     * Digikam (and KIPI-plugins): 3.1.0, 3.2.0
     * KDE Telepathy: 0.6.0, 0.6.1

   As a result -- according to PortScout -- kde@ has 473 ports (up from
   431), of which 98.73% are up-to-date (up from 93.5%). iXsystems Inc.
   continues to provided a machine for the team to build packages and to
   test updates. iXsystems Inc. has been providing the KDE/FreeBSD Team
   with support for quite a long time and we are very grateful for that.
   This quarter, we would also like to thank Steve Wills (swills@) for
   providing access to another machine so that we can do our work even
   faster.

   While a great deal of the team's efforts are focused towards packaging
   released code, we also take a proactive stand in making sure future
   versions of the software we port is also going to work well on FreeBSD.
   This involves being in close contact with upstream, raising awareness
   of FreeBSD as an active project and also sending actual patches that
   most of the time benefit many other operating systems besides FreeBSD
   itself. In this regard, we have been dedicating a lot of time making
   sure both clang and libc++ are fully supported in KDE and Qt. Not only
   has this resulted in many patches being sent to these projects, but the
   exposure to these large code bases have been beneficial to the
   Clang-on-FreeBSD project as well. Dimitry Andric (dim@) has been of
   great help as a point of contact for all the issues we have faced.

   As usual, the team is always looking for more testers and porters so
   please contact us and visit our home page. It would be especially
   useful to have more helping hands on tasks such as getting rid of the
   dependency on the defunct HAL project and providing integration with
   KDE's Bluedevil Bluetooth interface.

Open tasks:

    1. Update out-of-date ports, see PortScout for a list.
    2. Work on KDE 4.11 and Qt 5.
    3. Make sure the whole KDE stack (including Qt) builds and works
       correctly with clang and libc++.
    4. Remove the dependency on HAL.
     __________________________________________________________________

LLDB Debugger Port

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/lldb

   Contact: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

   LLDB is the the debugger project in the LLVM family. It supports the
   Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD platforms, but the latter has recently
   suffered under a lack of maintenance.

   After cleaning bit rot in LLDB's FreeBSD support, it again builds and
   can be used for basic debugging of single-threaded applications. The
   test suite also runs to completion, although it experiences a large
   number of failures.

   Ed Maste has been granted an LLDB commit bit, and is now committing
   ongoing bug fixes and development directly to the upstream repository.
   There is a significant amount of work still to be done, with one goal
   being the incorporation of lldb into the base system.

   This project is sponsored by DARPA/AFRL in collaboration with SRI
   International and the University of Cambridge.

Open tasks:

    1. Add support for multithreaded processes.
    2. Fix watchpoints.
    3. Add support for remote debuging (gdbserver / debugserver).
    4. Add support for core files.
    5. Add support for kernel debugging.
    6. Verify i386 and ARM architectures.
    7. Implement MIPS target support.
    8. Verify cross-debugging.
    9. Investigate and fix test suite failures.
   10. Prepare lldb for incorporation into the base system.
     __________________________________________________________________

Multi-threaded Pagedaemon

   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/pagedaemon-numa.1.patch

   Contact: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

   This project aims to improve scalability of the virtual memory
   subsystem. Based on a prototype change from Jeff Roberson, per-domain
   page queues and per-domain pagedaemon working threads have been
   implemented to enable this. At the moment, the domains coincide with
   the NUMA proximity domains, but this is not neccessary and could be
   improved with further separation to allow more parallelism in the
   pagedaemon.

   The patch is relatively simple, with the most delicate parts being the
   page laundry and OOM logic, which requires coordination between all
   pagedaemon threads to prevent false triggering.

   Testing on diverse workloads and on real multi-socket machines is
   required.

   This project is sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.

Open tasks:

    1. Debug on multi-domain NUMA machine.
    2. Test, get review and commit.
     __________________________________________________________________

Native iSCSI Stack

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Native%20iSCSI%20target

   Contact: Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

   The native kernel iSCSI target and initiator project progressed well
   over the April to June period. The primary focus was to introduce
   support for iSER (iSCSI over RDMA) in both the initiator and the
   target. Prerequisite for this was merging some common parts together
   and implementing a workaround for the lack of iSER support in
   userspace. Apart from that, there were a myriad of smaller
   improvements. Such as creating more user-friendly administration
   utilities, for example iscsictl(8) which displays SCSI device nodes for
   each iSCSI session. This frees the user from getting the same
   information through camcontrol(8). There are also improvements in
   logging and manual pages.

   Once the iSER support becomes stable, the work will focus on
   performance optimizations. The plan is to commit both the new initiator
   and target in August to allow shipping them in 10.0. The project will
   continue with implementing support for software iWARP stack (useful
   mostly for testing and development), SCSI passthrough and various other
   improvements.

   This project is being sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.

Open tasks:

    1. Performance optimization.
    2. Merge to FreeBSD head.
     __________________________________________________________________

New Capsicum Features

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/CapsicumFeatures

   Contact: Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

   Capsicum is a lightweight OS capability and sandboxing framework
   implemented in FreeBSD. This is still a new technology, so there is a
   lot of space for improvements. Thanks to the Google Summer of Code
   program and Pawel Jakub Dawidek for volunteering as mentor, Mariusz
   will have the chance to work on this project in the summer.

   The work on sandboxing the rwho(1) and rwhod(8) utilities was completed
   recently. There is also a plan to implement two new modules for Casper.
   Casper is a daemon to provide services for applications using
   Capsicum's capability mode. Some experimentation with implementing two
   new capability rights is in progress, so is porting one more program to
   use the existing features of the Capsicum framework.

Open tasks:

    1. system.unix -- a Casper module provides connect and listen on Unix
       domain socket.
    2. system.udp -- a Casper module enabling connect, listen, send, and
       receive of UDP packets.
    3. Implementing sandboxing for fetch(1).
    4. Introduce new capability rights: CAP_SEND_RIGHTS and
       CAP_RECV_RIGHTS.
     __________________________________________________________________

Newcons Reboot

   Contact: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@FreeBSD.org>

   The purpose of the Newcons project is to provide a new interface for
   console and video output to graphic devices. This will allow simple
   drivers access the console and terminal mode early, and framebuffer
   access for xorg. Drivers will not need embedded font bitmaps, color
   maps, or mouse cursor bitmaps, as the whole infrastructure will be
   provided by the vt(4) Newcons driver.

   As the project includes Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) integration, one of
   the goals is support for modern Xorg releases, allowing the kernel to
   switch back to virtual terminal mode after graphics mode or resolution
   used with xorg changes.

   There are a lot of changes involved in the project. Main tasks include:

     * Core functionality (almost done).
     * Mouse support.
     * KMS (kernel mode setting) support.
     * USB keyboard support.
     * Splash screen support (partially working).
     * Driver support.
     * vidcontrol(1) support.

   The first deliverables of the project, including moused(8), ukbd(4),
   and KMS support are expected to arrive around the middle or end of
   August 2013. The whole project is expected to complete in November
   2013.

   This project is being sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation.

   Many thanks to Ed Schouten who started Newcons project and did most of
   the work.

Open tasks:

    1. Provide different flavors of hardware for testing the
       implementation. Do not hesitate to volunteer when a call for
       testing is announced.
     __________________________________________________________________

PC-BSD

   URL: http://www.pcbsd.org

   Contact: Kris Moore <kmoore@FreeBSD.org>

   Progress on moving PC-BSD & TrueOS to a "rolling release" is happening
   quickly. We have implemented our own package repository, fully based on
   pkg(8), which is updated twice monthly, and are now hosting dedicated
   freebsd-update(8) systems. In addition to the 9.1-RELEASE ISO images,
   we have begun to create a 9-STABLE branch as well, using
   freebsd-update(8) to push out the latest world and kernel binaries on a
   monthly basis.

   We are currently working on an implementation of ZFS Boot Environments
   for desktops and servers. These users to install updates or
   experimental versions in separate ZFS clones and select the one to run
   at boot time, providing an easy way of testing upgrades before
   deployment.
     __________________________________________________________________

Qt and GTK+ Frontends for pkg(8)

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/pkgQtGtk

   Contact: Justin Muniz <jmuniz@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>

   This project is part of Google Summer of Code. Work has only just
   begun, and the code is in its infancy. The Subversion repository holds
   experimental code that is actively being developed. Development should
   be concluded before the end of September, and the project will enter
   the maintenance phase of its life cycle.

Open tasks:

    1. Work with Matt Windsor to create a pkg(8) backend for PackageKit.
    2. Extend PackageKit's Qt frontend to offer more functionality through
       pkg(8).
    3. Extend PackageKit's GKT+ frontend to offer more functionality
       through pkg(8).
     __________________________________________________________________

Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB Wireless Driver

   Contact: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>

   The urtwn(4) driver was imported from OpenBSD. This is a driver for
   very small Realtek USB WiFi cards which are pretty inexpensive and can
   do 802.11n at the maximum theoretical speed of 150 Mbps. They make a
   good addition to embedded systems such as the Raspberry Pi and the
   BeagleBone. The driver requires firmware that is available in the
   FreeBSD Ports Collection (net/urtwn-firmware-kmod). Note that 802.11n
   is not yet supported.
     __________________________________________________________________

SDIO Driver

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO
   URL: https://github.com/kibab/freebsd/tree/kibab-dplug

   Contact: Ilya Bakulin <ilya@bakulin.de>

   SDIO is an interface designed as an extension for the existing SD card
   standard, to allow connecting different peripherals to the host with
   the standard SD controller. Peripherals currently sold at the general
   market include WLAN/BT modules, cameras, fingerprint readers, barcode
   scanners. The driver is implemented as an extension to the existing MMC
   bus, adding a lot of new SDIO-specific bus methods. Getting information
   about the card works, including querying all the supported I/O
   functions. Simple byte transfers and multi-byte reads work.

   A prototype of the driver for Marvell SDIO WLAN/BT module is also being
   developed, using the existing Linux driver as a reference.

Open tasks:

    1. Extend MMC bus interface with more SDIO-specific bus methods to
       allow child drivers to perform multi-byte in/out transfers.
    2. Write firmware loading code for the prototype of the WLAN driver.
       Further work on the WLAN driver should probably be done as a
       separate project.
    3. Implement detach path. It has not been tested yet because the
       DreamPlug hardware available does not have an external SDIO-capable
       slot.
     __________________________________________________________________

Superpages for ARMv7

   URL: http://static.usenix.org/events/osdi02/tech/full_papers/navarro/navarro.pdf
   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ARMSuperpages
   URL: https://github.com/semihalf-bodek-zbigniew/freebsd-arm-superpages.git

   Contact: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com>
   Contact: Grzegorz Bernacki <gjb@semihalf.com>
   Contact: Rafał Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>

   The ARM architecture is becoming more and more prevalent, with
   increasing usage beyond the mobile and embedded space. Among the more
   interesting industry trends emerging in the recent months, there has
   been the concept of "ARM server". Some top-tier companies, e.g. Dell
   and HP, have already started to develop such systems.

   Key to success of FreeBSD in these new areas is dealing with the
   sophisticated features of the platform, for example adding support for
   superpages.

   The objective of this project is to enable FreeBSD/arm to utilize
   superpages which would allow efficient use of TLB translations (by
   enlarging TLB coverage), leading to improved performance in many
   applications and scalability. This is intended to work on ARMv7-based
   processors, however compatibility with ARMv6 will be preserved.

   The following steps have been made since the last status report:

     * Implement pmap_copy() to support fork() system calls.
     * Support for multiple page sizes.
     * Implement superpage creation, promotion, demotion, and eviction
       mechanisms.
     * Implement PV entry management for superpages.
     * Partially integrate code to the head branch.

   Next steps:
     * Test and benchmark.
     * Complete integration into FreeBSD head.

   This project is jointly sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation and
   Semihalf.

Open tasks:

    1. Start utilizing superpages on ARMv6/v7.
    2. Find bugs and debug.
     __________________________________________________________________

The FreeBSD Foundation

   URL: http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/

   Contact: Deb Goodkin <deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org>

   We started the quarter with our "Raise a Million -- Spend a Million"
   Spring Fundraiser. This was the first of three major fundraisers
   scheduled for the year. We were pleased to have raised $365,291 by the
   end of the campaign -- May 31. Last year, by the same time, we had
   raised only $56,196. We have started this year off with a much better
   fundraising strategy. We want to send a big thank you to everyone out
   there that has made a donation in 2013. Your early donations have made
   a significant impact on our fundraising endeavors so far this year.

   Some things we accomplished this last quarter are:

     * Attended BSDCan in Ottawa, Texas LinuxFest in Austin, SouthEast
       LinuxFest in Charlotte, and ICANN 46 meeting in Beijing.
     * We were a Gold Sponsor for BSDCan 2013 and sponsored 7 developers
       to attend the conference.
     * We signed up to be a Platinum Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2013.
     * We sponsored 1 developer to attend OpenHelp.
     * Recognized Mark Linimon, Simon L. B. Nielsen, Bjoern A. Zeeb, and
       Ken Smith, at BSDCan, for their significant contributions to
       FreeBSD. We also recognized Dan Langille for his tireless effort of
       putting on BSDCan for 10 years.
     * We sponsored the developer and vendor summits at BSDCan, with 100
       and 30 attendees respectively.
     * We sponsored BSD-Day 2013 that was held in Naples, Italy on April 6.
     * We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa.
     * We sponsored the following projects: Capsicum, ARM Superpages,
       iSCSI, Page Queue Locking, Input/Output Memory Management Unit,
       Documentation project infrastructure, and writing white papers.
     * We hired Edward Tomasz Napieral/a as the second member of our
       technical staff to work on FreeBSD projects full-time.
     * We hired Ed Maste as Director of Project Development.
     * With our continued support of building out the FreeBSD
       infrastructure, we purchased high-end servers for the Sentex Lab to
       be used with the latest 40 Gbps Ethernet cards from Chelsio to do
       performance testing and analysis, smaller servers for firewalls for
       NYI and ISC, and cables to connect our Juniper switches together
       into a bigger Juniper switch we purchased for NYI.
     __________________________________________________________________

Upgrading the Documentation Set to DocBook 5.0

   Contact: Gábor Kövesdán <gabor@FreeBSD.org>

   The Documentation Project has been using old versions of markup
   standards until recently when we switched to a real XML toolchain and
   DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsolete technologies -- DSSSL
   and Jade. DocBook 5.0 provides cleaner markup and some nice new
   features.

   The objective of this project is to upgrade the documentation set to
   DocBook 5.0 and to find a way to properly render our sources without
   using DSSSL, since the DSSSL stylesheets are discontinued and cannot
   render DocBook 5.0. The documentation sources have already been
   successfully transformed to DocBook 5.0 and updates to the rendering
   process are under development. The common opinion among FreeBSD
   developers is that Java is a heavy dependency that should be avoided.
   This has suggested the transformation of DocBook sources to TeX and use
   TeX as a rendering backend. There are two ways to do this; the sources
   can be transformed either directly or through the XSL FO output
   generated by the stylesheets provided for the DocBook Project. The
   latter approach has been chosen as a preferred way since it better fits
   the existing documentation infrastructure and provides easier
   customization.

   This project is generously funded by The FreeBSD Foundation.

Open tasks:

    1. Finish the implementation of the rendering process.
    2. Integrate the rendering solution into the infrastructure.
    3. Merge back changes to head.
     __________________________________________________________________

V4L2 Update in the Linuxulator

   Contact: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>

   The V4L2 support in the linuxulator was updated in FreeBSD head. This
   lets Skype v4 display video.

Open tasks:

    1. Find out why audio in Skype v4 stops working after some calls.
     __________________________________________________________________

Virtual Private Systems

   URL: http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/
   URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/vps/

   Contact: Klaus Ohrhallinger <k@7he.at>

   VPS for FreeBSD is an OS-level based virtualization implementation that
   supports advanced features like live migration. It has been recently
   imported into the Project's Subversion repository as a project branch.
   The code is currently of alpha quality.

Open tasks:

    1. Test with many different guest setups/applications. All feedback is
       highly appreciated.
     __________________________________________________________________

Wireless Networking Improvements

   Contact: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

   Recently the FreeBSD wireless networking stack has received updates in
   the following areas:

     * Improved transmit locking in net80211(4) to eliminate a whole class
       of subtle race conditions leading to out-of-order packets being
       handed to the driver.
     * Spectral scan (FFT) information is now available for the AR9280,
       AR9285, AR9287 series NICs.
     * Added support for AR93xx, AR94xx, AR95xx NICs -- hostap, adhoc and
       station modes have been tested, including 3x3 stream support for
       the those NICs where appropriate.
     * Implemented ps-poll handling in hostap mode. This was required for
       correct behaviour with stations that implement aggressive power
       save.
     * Added AR933x SoC support -- including all on-board peripherals --
       the 8devices.com Carambola-2 board is now fully supported and will
       run FreeBSD from NOR flash.
     __________________________________________________________________

Xen Support Improvements

   URL: http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/royger/freebsd.git;a=summary

   Contact: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

   FreeBSD Xen HVM can be further improved by using more PV interfaces
   inside a HVM guest. So far the following items have been completed:

     * Update Xen interface files. (Merged into head)
     * Add support for the vector callback injection mechanism. This
       replaces the PCI interrupt and provides a per-cpu callback, which
       was not possible when using the PCI interrupt.
     * Rework event channel implementation and use the same code paths for
       both PV and PVHVM.
     * Implement PV one-shot event timers and timecounters.
     * Implement PV IPIs.
     * Live migration support for PV timers and PV IPIs.

   With this changes, FreeBSD will have a complete PVHVM port, this will
   also set the ground for a future PVH port (when PVH support is merged
   into Xen).

   PVHVM allows a virtual machine that boots as a native guest to be able
   to take full advantage of paravirtualized drivers, giving a performance
   improvement in most I/O related tasks. PVH allows a guest to take
   advantage of hardware assistance for memory management, but uses fully
   paravirtualized events and boot procedure, which brings two significant
   advantages beyond performance. The first is that domain 0 does not have
   to run a QEMU instance for emulated boot for PVH guests, which is a
   common reason for hosting providers to charge more for Windows and
   other HVM guests. The second is that PVH domains can be used as domain
   0, without requiring different pmap (memory management) code from the
   conventional kernel. This will allow us to ship a single kernel binary
   supporting bare metal hardware, running as a Xen unprivileged guest,
   and eventually as Xen domain 0.

   Further improvements on blkfront and netfront have also been commited:

     * Fix netfront crash when detaching an interface.
     * Enable netfront to specify a maximum TSO length limiting the
       segment chain to what the Xen host side can handle after
       defragmentation.
     * Add barriers and flush support to blkfront.

   Netfront changes have been merged to stable branches, blkfront changes
   are only in head.

Open tasks:

    1. Merge remaining changes into head.
     __________________________________________________________________

Xfce/FreeBSD

   URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xfce

   Contact: FreeBSD Xfce Team <xfce@FreeBSD.org>

   The FreeBSD Xfce Team has updated its ports to the latest stable
   releases, especially:

     * Core (mostly bugfixes and translation updates):

     * deskutils/xfce4-tumbler (0.1.29)
     * x11-wm/xfce4-panel (4.10.1)
     * sysutils/xfce4-settings (4.10.1)
     * x11-wm/xfce4-session (4.10.1)
     * sysutils/garcon (0.2.1)
     * x11/libxfce4util (4.10.1)
     * x11-wm/xfce4-wm (4.10.1)

     Applications:

     * multimedia/xfce4-parole (0.5.1)
     * www/midori (0.5.2)
     * deskutils/xfce4-notifyd (0.2.4)
     * misc/xfce4-appfinder (4.10.1)
     * x11/xfce4-terminal (0.6.2)
     * x11-fm/thunar (1.6.3)

     Panel plugins:

     * deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin (0.5.6)
     * textproc/xfce4-dict-plugin (0.7.0)
     * x11-clocks/xfce4-timer-plugin (1.5.0)
     * x11/xfce4-embed-plugin (new)

     Thunar plugins:

     * audio/thunar-media-tags-plugin (0.2.1)
     * archivers/thunar-archive-plugin (0.3.1)

     x11/xfce4-embed-plugin can integrate any application window into the
   Xfce panel.

     A new plugin is also available which monitors and displays
   earthquakes, it is called xfce4-equake-plugin.

  Open tasks:

    1. Fix CPU issue with textproc/xfce4-dict-plugin (bug #10103).
    2. Investigate why midori-gtk3 crashes too often. (The port is
       finished, but some libraries are not present by default in ports
       tree).
    3. Fix x11-themes/gtk-xfce-engine with Gtk+ >=3.6.
     __________________________________________________________________

xorg on FreeBSD

   URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg
   URL: http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk

   Contact: <x11@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Niclas Zeising <zeising@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org>

   During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making the xorg
   update as robust and stable as possible in preparation for the merge to
   ports. As a part of this, ports exp-runs were performed to find and
   resolve regressions and other issues. Once this was completed, xorg was
   updated to version 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.

   After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating and
   patching xorg client libraries, since numerous security issues had been
   identified in those. Unfortunately, this took a little longer than
   anticipated, but all fixes were comitted eventually.

   There has also been work on making the new xorg distribution the
   default for FreeBSD 9.1 and later. A patch was sent out and tested with
   good results, but this is currently postponed because switching virtual
   terminals is not working with the KMS driver.

   Currently, work is focusing on keeping xorg drivers and libraries up to
   date. Instead of making big updates every year or less, minor updates
   to some libraries, applications and drivers happen fairly regularly.
   Focus is also starting to shift towards newer versions of MESA and
   xorg-server, but this is still very experimental.

  Open tasks:

    1. Continue the porting effort of recent versions of MESA. This is
       ongoing work, but integrating this into the development repo is
       hard work. Once this is completed, and KMS support for ATI is more
       mature, more testing can be done.
    2. Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open source
       operating system seems to be Wayland. This needs to be ported to
       FreeBSD so that a wider audience can test it, and so that it
       eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as a
       replacement for the current xorg.
    3. Look into replacements for HAL. HAL is used for hot-plugging of
       devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux. A replacement,
       perhaps built on top of devd(8), would be nice to have. This work
       should be coordinated with the FreeBSD GNOME and KDE teams.
     __________________________________________________________________

ZFS TRIM and Enhanced BIO_DELETE Support

   Contact: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Steven Hartland <smh@FreeBSD.org>

   As of the end of June, FreeBSD's ZFS implementation now includes TRIM
   support in head, stable/9, and stable/8 branches. This allows ZFS to
   help maintain high performance on flash-based devices such as SSD's
   even under high-load conditions.

   When creating new pools and adding new devices to existing pools it
   first performs a full-device level TRIM to help ensure optimum starting
   performance. This behaviour can be overridden by setting the
   vfs.zfs.vdev.trim_on_init sysctl variable to 0 if for example the disks
   are new or have already been secure erased, which can also now be done
   using camcontrol(8) security actions.

   In order to support TRIM, the kernel requires the underlying device
   driver supports BIO_DELETE. This is currently mapped through to
   hardware methods such as ATA TRIM and SCSI UNMAP, which are commonly
   supported by SSDs via CAM.

   In order to increase the supported hardware base, CAM's SCSI layer was
   also enhanced to allow ATA TRIM via SATL ATA Passthrough to be used in
   addition to the existing UNMAP and WS methods. This allows SATA disks
   attached to SCSI controllers with CAM based drivers such as mps(4) and
   mpt(4) to provide delete support.

   Stats for ZFS TRIM can be monitored by looking at the sysctl variables
   under kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim in addition to live GEOM delete stats via
   the gstat -d command.

   This project was sponsored by Multiplay and implemented by Pawel Jakub
   Dawidek.
     __________________________________________________________________
 
Kann mir jemand sagen, warum soviel Manpower für die Wartung und Portierung von Haskell nötig ist. Man sollte doch meinen, dass so viele fundamentale Änderungen sich nicht ständig einschleichen.
 
Ich habe keine Ahnung von Haskell. Aber Gabor Pali hat eigentlich nie was anderes gemacht, außer Haskell zu portieren und Konferenzen zu organisieren. Wenn er Spaß daran hat, lassen wir ihn es machen :)
 
Interessant finde ich ja, dass nun wieder jemand an Newcons arbeitet. Es war zuvor maximal angedeutet worden, die FreeBSD Foundation hat das zugehörige Projekt auch noch nicht offiziell angekündigt... Mal schauen was daraus wird, aber es dürfte die Chancen auf Newcons in 10.0 deutlich erhöhen.
 
Interessant finde ich ja, dass nun wieder jemand an Newcons arbeitet. Es war zuvor maximal angedeutet worden, die FreeBSD Foundation hat das zugehörige Projekt auch noch nicht offiziell angekündigt... Mal schauen was daraus wird, aber es dürfte die Chancen auf Newcons in 10.0 deutlich erhöhen.

Wenn das so langsam weiter entwickelt wird (newcons, kms, ...), dann ist OpenBSD bald das Zocker OS #1 :-)

Die PS5 nutzt das OpenBSD als OS
 
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