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Introduction

In this Quarter work has been progressing in quite a few areas of FreeBSD. FreeBSD 7.1 BETA2 and 6.4 RC2 have been released for pre-release testing. EuroBSDCon 2008 took place in Strasbourg, France and quite a few developers got together for the Developer Summit before the Conference. The USB2 stack has been imported into the -HEAD branch.

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you enjoy reading.

proj Projects team FreeBSD Team Reports kern Kernel arch Architectures misc Miscellaneous FreeBSD for ASUS EeePC Stanislav Sedov stas@FreeBSD.org Rui Paulo rpaulo@FreeBSD.org Lars Engels lme@FreeBSD.org - ASUS Eee Wiki + ASUS Eee Wiki

ASUS Eee is a line of cheap subnotebooks. These come with Linux or Windows preinstalled. The hardware is a bit inconventional, so it required some work to work properly. Also, these machines contains some hardware that was not supported by FreeBSD.

Currently FreeBSD should run on all Eee models out of the box, and most hardware should just work. At least, 700, 701, 901 and 1000 was tested successfully. The hardware supported includes Atheros wireless backed by ath(4) in HEAD (you still need a patch for for RELENG_7), Attansic L2 FastEthernet controller (ae(4)), High Definition audio controller (snd_hda), Synaptics touchpad and so on. Suspend/resume also works fine with some exceptions.

There is also a hardware monitoring module, that allows user to control FAN speeds and voltage, as well as monitor current CPU temperature. Wiki page contains information on how to obtain this module and use it. There're also a lot of useful tips and tricks for using FreeBSD on ASUS EeePC on that page.

Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet support (for ASUS Eee 901) Wireless driver for ASUS Eee 901 (ral(4)) Fix Synaptics resume path. CVSMode for csup Ulf Lilleengen lulf@FreeBSD.org Perforce repository

The implementation of cvsmode for csup have become more mature, and have been tested by a few people so far. All parts directly related to CVSMode have been implemented, and it seems to works quite. There is still a need for testers, so any users of cvsup using it to mirror or fetch the CVS repository (cvsmode/mirror mode) are encouraged to try it.

Implement support for the rsync protocol (not needed for it to work, but it will probably speed up csup in some cases) Implement complete support for using the status file in cvsmode The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project Gábor Kövesdán gabor@FreeBSD.org Gábor Páli pgj@FreeBSD.org Hungarian Web Page for FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation for FreeBSD The FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project's Wiki Page Perforce Depot for the FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project

In July, pgj gave a presentation (in Hungarian) about the FreeBSD Hungarian Documentation Project in Debrecen, Hungary.

Based on the checkupdate script mentioned in our previous status report, we launched our Translation Checking Service to help to schedule periodic updates for Hungarian doc/www translations. Moreover, a small bug in EPS images blocking automatic generation of the Handbook PDF version was corrected , therefore it is now available for download .

Shortly after the renovation of its source, translation of the FAQ has also become part of Hungarian documentations. Both online and offline versions are available. A new translation has been added, gjournal-desktop .

Hungarian translation of the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors has been started . We hope this will encourage others to help our work. There is always place in our team, every submitted translation or feedback is appreciated and very welcome.

Translate release notes for -CURRENT and 7.X Translate articles Translate the FDP Primer Read the translations, send feedback The FreeBSD Foundation Deb Goodkin deb@FreeBSD.org

For the first time we sent out a request for project proposals. We were very excited about the proposals we received. We accepted four projects and will be announcing them soon. We were proud to sponsor NYCBSDCon and EuroBSDCon. We are also a sponsor of MeetBSDCon. We provided travel grants for the Cambridge FreeBSD Developer Summit in August. We are continuing to provide updated Java binaries for FreeBSD 7.0. We continued to provide legal support for the project.

 FreeBSD mirror statistics Edwin Groothuis edwin@FreeBSD.org Website 10 Day Score overview

There are many FreeBSD mirrors, either FTP or WWW or CVSup or RSync, but are they really all up-to-date? Some are, some aren't. The ones who aren't, how out to date are they? Or do they only carry a subset of the data? And how does it go over time?

This project checks once per day the contents of the sites which are advertised in DNS, with the rsync*, www*, cvsup* and ftp* prefixes. The lists of hosts are based on the contents of the DNS zonefile for the country domains, so it will be automatically adjusted whenever a mirror is added.

The statuses can be compared on country base and between two dates and the 10 day score overview shows the general health of the FreeBSD Mirroring network.

Create a list of contact details per mirror. Chase mirror maintainers with regarding to the status of their servers. USB2 Hans Petter Sirevaag Selasky hselasky@freebsd.org Current USB files

The new USB stack has been imported to FreeBSD-CURRENT. There is an ongoing review process at the freebsd-usb mailing list and the freebsd-current mailing list. A couple of minor issues remain.

Ideas and comments with regard to the new USB stack are welcome at freebsd-usb@freebsd.org .

 Multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails Bjoern A. Zeeb bz@FreeBSD.ORG Web page for regularly updates and patches Perforce tree

The multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails project was resumed beginning of this year and is in the final stage now. A commit is imminent waiting for final review to be finished.

As an alternate solution to full network stack virtualization, this work shall provide a lightweight solution for multi-IP virtualization. The changes are even more important because of the emerging demand for IPv6.

Ideally this will be merged to FreeBSD 7 before 7.2-RELEASE and stay in FreeBSD 8 for the transitional period to full network stack virtualization.

Finish review. Management (rc framework, ..) for 7-STABLE. Identify ports that need to be updated. MavEtJu's FreeBSD Mailing List Browser Edwin Groothuis edwin@FreeBSD.org Website

Earlier this year I put effort in the creation of a new layout for the FreeBSD mailinglists. The following issues were tackled:

The mailinglist website is updated once per hour with the mailinglists via cvsup.

Addition of RSS feeds per mailinglist and for the "last day" feature. FreeBSD Multimedia Resources List Edwin Groothuis edwin@FreeBSD.org Website RSS feed

Please note that the FreeBSD Multimedia Resources List is still alive and kicking. It is a one-stop-shop for FreeBSD related podcasts, vodcasts and audio/video resources. It has talks, videos and papers of the New York City BSD Con 2008, FreeBSD Developer Summit, BSDCan 2008, AsiaBSDCon 2008, OpenFest and has recordings with regular talks like the NYCBUG user group and regular podcast of BSDTalk.

 pkg_trans Ivan Voras ivoras@freebsd.org

The "pkg_trans" project is a work in progress aiming to add package transactions / grouping to common package manipulation utilities (pkg_add, pkg_delete). The intention is to have all packages pulled in by a particular command like "pkg_add" or "make install" grouped in a single transaction, which can be later rolled back. This will allow users to, for example, install a big tree of dependent packages (like kde4), try it, and later delete it.

Currently the pkg_trans and the patched utilities are available for testing. There are some open issues but it's generally stable.

I cannot modify the "make install" infrastructure for ports and 3rd party utilities such as portupgrade. People who know these utilities are very welcome to help. More testing is needed. FreeBSD/powerpc for Freescale MPC8572 Rafal Jaworowski raj@semihalf.com Bartlomiej Sieka tur@semihalf.com

The MPC8572 system-on-chip device is a high-end member of Freescale PowerQUICC III family, which features a rich set of integrated peripherals. It is a dual e500v2 core system, compliant with Book-E definition of the Power Architecture. For detailed specification see: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8572E This work is extending our (single core) MPC85XX port already available in the SVN tree. Currently the MPC8572 support covers:

High level functional summary:

Remaining built-in peripherals drivers Release Engineering Team Ken Smith re@FreeBSD.org

The Release Engineering Team continues to work on getting 6.4-RELEASE and 7.1-RELEASE ready. 6.4-RC2 builds are coming up shortly, with 6.4-RELEASE expected about two weeks later. There are still a few issues being worked on for 7.1-RELEASE though hopefully we will be ready to proceed with 7.1-RC1 within the next week. Both 6.4-RELEASE and 7.1-RELEASE will include DVD image ISOs for the amd64 and i386 architectures which has been requested by quite a few end-users.

 FreeBSD Security Officer and Security Team Security Officer security-officer@FreeBSD.org Security Team security-team@FreeBSD.org

The FreeBSD Security Team has recently had some membership changes. George V. Neville-Neil, Dag-Erling Smorgrav, and Marcus Alves Grando have retired from the team. We thank them for their work while they were on the security team. Xin Li, Martin Wilke, Qing Li, and Stanislav Sedov have joined the team.

 Synaptics touchpads support improvements in psm(4) Jean-SĂ©bastien PĂ©dron dumbbell@FreeBSD.org

psm(4) provides basic support for Synaptics Touchpad but doesn't allow one to take advantage of many features like multi-finger tap and tap-hold, or virtual scrolling. A driver for X.Org is available but the movements are not very precise and the setup is not easy if you want to use your touchpad in the console.

The goal of this project is to first provide a better movement filtering and smoothing, then bring the more advanced features.

Right now, movement filtering, multi-finger tap, tap-hold and virtual scrolling (using a dedicated area) is implemented.

Virtual scrolling with two fingers (as seen on Apple MacBook) will be brought back soon.

But before that, the new driver needs testing! It's currently tested on an ASUS V6V only and feedback on other laptops would be greatly appreciated.

Test and send feedback.