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Hello everyone! For the last few months I have been investigating
and then working on a new approach to the BSD kernel. This has snowballed
into a far more ambitious project which is now ready for wider
participation.
It is the intent of this project to take over development of the 4.x tree,
to move kernel development along an entirely new path towards SMP, and
to completely rewrite the packaging and distribution system. We
eventually intend to backport many FreeBSD-5 features into the new tree,
but that is not where the initial focus will be.
The preliminary 'proving' work I have done is now available on the new
DragonFly site. You can access it through cvsup or browse it through
ftp. This proving work involved implementing much of the earlier UP->SMP
converstion work that was done when 5.x first branched, but under an
entirely new mutex-free light weight kernel threading infrastructure.
It includes the LWKT system, interrupt threads, and pure threads for
system processes amoung other things.
For obvious reasons the codebase will only run on i386 for now, and ports
to other platforms will not happen until the MD infrastructure is cleaned
up and finalized. I considered starting with a 5.x base but it is simply
too heavily mutexed, it was actually faster to start with 4.x and move
forward rather then to start with 5.x and move backwards.
I have both UP and SMP builds working in the current codebase. I believe
it proves out the core concepts quite nicely and there is much
more work coming down the pipeline.
The site is:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
Hopefully my T1 can handle the cvsup load. Eventually I'll colocate
some boxes to deal with that issue.
For the next few months the project is going to concentrate on low
level kernel development. There are still a number of big ticket items
that have to be accomplished, primarily in converting the I/O path to
using VM Object/range lists, before work can branch out into other areas.
I expect the project to start fairly slowly but then for momentum to
build.
Anyone interested in working on or discussing the project is welcome! I
have created a mailing list server and newsgroup forums and I am working
on web-accessibility to same for passive listeners. I will be posting
periodic updates to freebsd-hackers as well.
Again, the site is below. It contains a great deal of documentation
and other information. I even have a mascot! And, hopefully, it will
all work from outside my LAN :-)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
-Matt
Wer übersetzen mag, einfach in den Thread hängen oder PN an mich, ich füg es dann ein
Hello everyone! For the last few months I have been investigating
and then working on a new approach to the BSD kernel. This has snowballed
into a far more ambitious project which is now ready for wider
participation.
It is the intent of this project to take over development of the 4.x tree,
to move kernel development along an entirely new path towards SMP, and
to completely rewrite the packaging and distribution system. We
eventually intend to backport many FreeBSD-5 features into the new tree,
but that is not where the initial focus will be.
The preliminary 'proving' work I have done is now available on the new
DragonFly site. You can access it through cvsup or browse it through
ftp. This proving work involved implementing much of the earlier UP->SMP
converstion work that was done when 5.x first branched, but under an
entirely new mutex-free light weight kernel threading infrastructure.
It includes the LWKT system, interrupt threads, and pure threads for
system processes amoung other things.
For obvious reasons the codebase will only run on i386 for now, and ports
to other platforms will not happen until the MD infrastructure is cleaned
up and finalized. I considered starting with a 5.x base but it is simply
too heavily mutexed, it was actually faster to start with 4.x and move
forward rather then to start with 5.x and move backwards.
I have both UP and SMP builds working in the current codebase. I believe
it proves out the core concepts quite nicely and there is much
more work coming down the pipeline.
The site is:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
Hopefully my T1 can handle the cvsup load. Eventually I'll colocate
some boxes to deal with that issue.
For the next few months the project is going to concentrate on low
level kernel development. There are still a number of big ticket items
that have to be accomplished, primarily in converting the I/O path to
using VM Object/range lists, before work can branch out into other areas.
I expect the project to start fairly slowly but then for momentum to
build.
Anyone interested in working on or discussing the project is welcome! I
have created a mailing list server and newsgroup forums and I am working
on web-accessibility to same for passive listeners. I will be posting
periodic updates to freebsd-hackers as well.
Again, the site is below. It contains a great deal of documentation
and other information. I even have a mascot! And, hopefully, it will
all work from outside my LAN :-)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/
-Matt