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Sep 16 2023, 7:01 AM (159 w, 6 d)

You have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

Integrated, offline, semantically tagged documentation subsystem is better than your dependency-riddled, half baked webapp of the day.

And I'm going to to prove it.

https://freebsd.org/~ziaee/

Recent Activity

Yesterday

ziaee added a comment to D60451: mkimg.1: Document new %align mechanism.

So what is an optional alignment? Is that like, "make sure it begins and ends on an address which is a multiple of $1" or something else?

Thu, Oct 8, 7:07 AM
ziaee added a comment to D59920: rtlbtfw: add firmware to base.

should we coordinate with bz? i thought he removed all the wifi firmware from base and spent several release cycles building that out so it works well enough.

Thu, Oct 8, 7:00 AM
ziaee added a comment to D59596: intel/intel_pmc: Add support for Cannon Lake through Meteor Lake.

okay i am testing this now and nothing exploded. or well i thought i was but

$ sysctl dev.intel_pmc
sysctl: unknown oid 'dev.intel_pmc'

let me build all this stuff again sorry.

Thu, Oct 8, 3:49 AM · drivers

Sun, Oct 4

ziaee committed rG4e0870fd9dc7: rc.conf.5: Fix typo (authored by ziaee).
rc.conf.5: Fix typo
Sun, Oct 4, 12:53 AM
ziaee committed rG405ee2a8bf62: rc.conf.5: Improve NOAUTO configuration + tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
rc.conf.5: Improve NOAUTO configuration + tag SPDX
Sun, Oct 4, 12:53 AM
ziaee committed rG514bd4465001: rc.conf.5: Improve NOAUTO configuration + tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
rc.conf.5: Improve NOAUTO configuration + tag SPDX
Sun, Oct 4, 12:51 AM
ziaee committed rG3b593364a92e: ng manpages: Standardize descriptions (authored by ziaee).
ng manpages: Standardize descriptions
Sun, Oct 4, 12:50 AM
ziaee committed rG2febf35c9020: bcm2835_pwm: Fix dev.pwm.0.ratio2 register (authored by ziaee).
bcm2835_pwm: Fix dev.pwm.0.ratio2 register
Sun, Oct 4, 12:48 AM
ziaee committed rGc678389a56f5: bcm2835_pwm: Fix dev.pwm.0.ratio2 register (authored by ziaee).
bcm2835_pwm: Fix dev.pwm.0.ratio2 register
Sun, Oct 4, 12:48 AM
ziaee committed rG206bf1998ef9: ng manpages: Standardize descriptions (authored by ziaee).
ng manpages: Standardize descriptions
Sun, Oct 4, 12:47 AM
ziaee accepted D59920: rtlbtfw: add firmware to base.

LGTM from manpages

Sun, Oct 4, 12:36 AM
ziaee added a comment to D60259: dhclient-script: store the Captive Portal URI.

Can we MFC this? Relnotes?

Sun, Oct 4, 12:30 AM

Sat, Oct 3

ziaee added a reviewer for D59920: rtlbtfw: add firmware to base: manpages.
Sat, Oct 3, 5:14 PM
ziaee accepted D32297: mandoc: Don't brand Volume titles.

so, after this patch mandoc output will look like groff? Fine by me.

Sat, Oct 3, 4:24 PM
ziaee updated the diff for D60182: status/2026Q3/doceng: Add doc project report.

+ provide more hyperlinks
+ editorial nits

Sat, Oct 3, 2:29 PM
ziaee added reviewers for D60182: status/2026Q3/doceng: Add doc project report: alven, andy.

(Add the missing mentioned)

Sat, Oct 3, 2:11 PM
ziaee updated the diff for D60182: status/2026Q3/doceng: Add doc project report.

"this quarter in the Documentation project"

Sat, Oct 3, 2:09 PM
ziaee updated the diff for D60182: status/2026Q3/doceng: Add doc project report.

+ add toolchain updates, thanks @vladlen!
+ rephrase mandoc portability work to try to be more concise

Sat, Oct 3, 2:05 PM
ziaee updated the diff for D60182: status/2026Q3/doceng: Add doc project report.

+ s/Russian Translation team/Vladlen and Andrey. it's just them, right? so they should deserve specific credit.
+ Add mandoc. upstream is doing the first release in 5 years, we are reconciling with upstream for portability.

Sat, Oct 3, 6:07 AM
D3178: Clarify and improve device.hints.5 is now accepted and ready to land.

Is this still relevant? Can we action or garbage collect this revision?

Sat, Oct 3, 5:55 AM · manpages
ziaee added a reviewer for D34731: bikeshed.7: the backstory: phk.
Sat, Oct 3, 5:54 AM
ziaee added a comment to D13628: aw_rsb: Add man page for this driver.

Is this still relevant? Can we close or merge this?

Sat, Oct 3, 5:49 AM
ziaee added a comment to D16758: Make smsc(4) turbo_mode configuration.

Is this still relevant? Can we close or merge this?

Sat, Oct 3, 5:49 AM
ziaee added a project to D13620: aw_usbphy: Add manual page for this driver.: manpages.
Sat, Oct 3, 5:48 AM · manpages
ziaee abandoned D4228: Make tests(7) more concise..
Sat, Oct 3, 5:46 AM
ziaee commandeered D4228: Make tests(7) more concise..

This looks dead so I am garbage collecting it. Please re-open this if you think this is an error.

Sat, Oct 3, 5:46 AM
ziaee added a project to D18768: Describe FreeBSD's virtual memory in memory(7): manpages.
Sat, Oct 3, 5:44 AM · manpages
ziaee requested changes to D23944: Teach mandoc about IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2017 Edition ("POSIX.1").

I've been working with upstream in preparation for mandoc 1.15. They are saying no new standard abbreviation macros, they cause portability problems and it is just fine to type out the text. I'm planning to revert the unique ones we have to increase portability, such as fixing rendering on man.freebsd.org which uses groff. Will you close this to clean up the queue?

Sat, Oct 3, 5:42 AM

Fri, Oct 2

ziaee added a comment to D60237: website/events: Add 2026 vendor summit.

It's the "Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor Summit"

Fri, Oct 2, 9:15 PM
ziaee added a reviewer for D59365: pmc, pmcstat: document PMU event grouping: manpages.
Fri, Oct 2, 8:58 PM · pmc, manpages
ziaee accepted D59718: bectl: add support for custom subcommands.
Fri, Oct 2, 10:00 AM
ziaee added a reviewer for D59718: bectl: add support for custom subcommands: manpages.

We could probably use a .Sh ENVIRONMENT at some point.

Fri, Oct 2, 10:00 AM
ziaee requested review of D60237: website/events: Add 2026 vendor summit.
Fri, Oct 2, 9:57 AM
ziaee added a comment to D60208: linuxkpi.4: extend for compilation and tracking consumers.

Some of this is stuff that we would normally keep on the wiki, I really like them being here in the tree instead. I think it's easier to see and maintain atomically.

Fri, Oct 2, 9:28 AM
ziaee accepted D60236: fix sub-menu in the header for mobile devices.

Thank you!

Fri, Oct 2, 9:19 AM
ziaee committed R11:058caa7c245c: games/vkquake: Update to 1.36.0 + take maintainer (authored by ziaee).
games/vkquake: Update to 1.36.0 + take maintainer
Fri, Oct 2, 9:17 AM

Thu, Oct 1

ziaee accepted D60191: man: Link ena.4 to if_ena.4.
Thu, Oct 1, 9:55 AM
ziaee closed D60178: website/footer: move CoC to legal to bring balance.
Thu, Oct 1, 8:35 AM
ziaee committed R9:5d0e66b5c647: website/footer: Move CoC to legal to bring balance (authored by ziaee).
website/footer: Move CoC to legal to bring balance
Thu, Oct 1, 8:35 AM

Wed, Sep 30

ziaee accepted D60181: bhyve.8: add details on using TPM with UEFI.

Awesome! Thank you!

Wed, Sep 30, 6:47 PM
ziaee requested review of D60182: status/2026Q3/doceng: Add doc project report.
Wed, Sep 30, 6:45 PM
ziaee added a reviewer for D60171: audit_warn: Avoid pointless fork and path search: manpages.
Wed, Sep 30, 4:51 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D58485: fetch.1: Add example for stdout.
Wed, Sep 30, 4:48 PM
ziaee requested review of D60178: website/footer: move CoC to legal to bring balance.
Wed, Sep 30, 4:38 PM

Tue, Sep 29

ziaee committed rGafe3e2e9c5d5: unionfs.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + nit SPDX (authored by ziaee).
unionfs.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + nit SPDX
Tue, Sep 29, 9:38 PM
ziaee committed rGbfe327329929: ums.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
ums.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX
Tue, Sep 29, 9:38 PM
ziaee committed rGdc20c58ae58e: umoscom.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
umoscom.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX
Tue, Sep 29, 9:38 PM
ziaee committed rGc4e25d192f82: umodem.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
umodem.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX
Tue, Sep 29, 9:38 PM
ziaee accepted D60152: mkimg.1: Document new vmdks format.

Actually, everything seems reasonable. I just have one suggestion to try to make this functionality more obvious?

Tue, Sep 29, 8:28 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D59938: apm.4: Trim down to describing the compat interface exposed by acpi(4).
Tue, Sep 29, 6:45 PM

Mon, Sep 28

ziaee committed rG334e8745e9db: wsp.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
wsp.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS + tag SPDX
Mon, Sep 28, 10:02 PM
ziaee committed rG3a542d83a8ce: uep.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, KERNEL CONFIGURATION (authored by ziaee).
uep.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, KERNEL CONFIGURATION
Mon, Sep 28, 10:02 PM
ziaee closed D59257: wsp.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS.
Mon, Sep 28, 10:02 PM
ziaee closed D59869: uep.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, KERNEL CONFIGURATION.
Mon, Sep 28, 10:02 PM
ziaee added a comment to D59770: ossl.4: Canonicalize HARDWARE and add powerpc64.

Ok team, what do you want me to do? We can keep iterating on this (although this is the extent of my understanding) or I can merge this.

Mon, Sep 28, 9:59 PM
ziaee accepted D60034: Add kernel crash dump debugging with lldb.

This is really wonderful Minsoo, thank you so much for doing this.

Mon, Sep 28, 9:56 PM
ziaee closed D59505: website: Revive donations page.
Mon, Sep 28, 9:25 PM
ziaee closed D59589: website: Restore "The Power to Serve" on homepage.
Mon, Sep 28, 9:25 PM
ziaee committed R9:4adfd4a27121: website: Revive donations page (authored by ziaee).
website: Revive donations page
Mon, Sep 28, 9:25 PM
ziaee committed R9:08ebd136a200: website: Restore "The Power to Serve" on homepage (authored by ziaee).
website: Restore "The Power to Serve" on homepage
Mon, Sep 28, 9:25 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D59938: apm.4: Trim down to describing the compat interface exposed by acpi(4).
Mon, Sep 28, 8:20 PM

Sat, Sep 26

ziaee accepted D60047: sysarch.x86.2: manual page for the sysarch(2) functions on x86.

That's all from manpages mechanical side of things. But I do not really know about syscalls to review the content.

Sat, Sep 26, 5:09 PM
ziaee added a comment to D59930: nmount: Introduce the "check_fsid" option.

I'm beginning to think all these Li's in the manpage are actually Fa "Function argument or parameter".

Sat, Sep 26, 4:50 PM
ziaee added a reviewer for D60047: sysarch.x86.2: manual page for the sysarch(2) functions on x86: manpages.
Sat, Sep 26, 4:35 PM
ziaee added a comment to D60036: release: switch the WITH_* knobs to just gating `release` dependencies.

Can you also update release(7) with the new knobs?

Sat, Sep 26, 4:25 PM
ziaee added a comment to D59938: apm.4: Trim down to describing the compat interface exposed by acpi(4).

Oh one more thing,

Sat, Sep 26, 4:14 PM
ziaee accepted D59941: apm(8): Remove support for APM BIOS.
Sat, Sep 26, 4:11 PM
ziaee added a reviewer for D59941: apm(8): Remove support for APM BIOS: manpages.
Sat, Sep 26, 4:11 PM
ziaee accepted D59938: apm.4: Trim down to describing the compat interface exposed by acpi(4).
Sat, Sep 26, 4:09 PM

Fri, Sep 25

ziaee added a comment to D60002: scheduler.4, sched_{4bsd,ule}.4: sync current scheduler sysctls.

Remove kern.sched.preemption (This is shared between 4BSD and ULE, so it should be in scheduler.4)

Fri, Sep 25, 3:34 AM

Thu, Sep 24

ziaee added inline comments to D59941: apm(8): Remove support for APM BIOS.
Thu, Sep 24, 4:55 PM
ziaee added a project to D59978: FINISH DOCUMENTING THE MODULE TYPES XXX: manpages.
Thu, Sep 24, 4:49 PM · manpages
ziaee added a project to D59963: loader: Document common commands: manpages.
Thu, Sep 24, 4:48 PM · manpages
ziaee added a project to D59965: loader: Document common commands: manpages.
Thu, Sep 24, 4:48 PM · manpages

Wed, Sep 23

ziaee committed rGddaa6746a30b: sesutil.8: Concise document description, tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
sesutil.8: Concise document description, tag SPDX
Wed, Sep 23, 9:44 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D59941: apm(8): Remove support for APM BIOS.
Wed, Sep 23, 9:33 PM
ziaee abandoned D53724: apm.4: Remove a stale manual and update mlink.

Dropped in favor of D59938

Wed, Sep 23, 9:20 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D59938: apm.4: Trim down to describing the compat interface exposed by acpi(4).
Wed, Sep 23, 9:18 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D59941: apm(8): Remove support for APM BIOS.
Wed, Sep 23, 9:17 PM
ziaee requested changes to D59930: nmount: Introduce the "check_fsid" option.
Wed, Sep 23, 9:12 PM
ziaee added a reviewer for D59930: nmount: Introduce the "check_fsid" option: manpages.
Wed, Sep 23, 9:12 PM

Tue, Sep 22

ziaee added a comment to D59869: uep.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, KERNEL CONFIGURATION.

OK thanks @glebius!

Tue, Sep 22, 9:14 PM
ziaee committed R9:f25cc5444506: handbook/x11: Add nvidia-driver-580 (authored by ziaee).
handbook/x11: Add nvidia-driver-580
Tue, Sep 22, 9:02 PM
ziaee accepted D59911: misc: Avoid use of Unicode closing single quote.

Thank you!

Tue, Sep 22, 8:36 PM
ziaee committed rG14b855d29603: mandoc: Drop -ieee754-2008 abbreviation (authored by ziaee).
mandoc: Drop -ieee754-2008 abbreviation
Tue, Sep 22, 5:07 AM
ziaee closed D59880: mandoc: Drop -ieee754-2008 abbreviation.
Tue, Sep 22, 5:07 AM
ziaee requested review of D59880: mandoc: Drop -ieee754-2008 abbreviation.
Tue, Sep 22, 12:47 AM

Mon, Sep 21

ziaee added a comment to D59879: atf/FREEBSD-upgrade: update document/rewrite in Markdown.

The link in the test plan seems out of date?

Mon, Sep 21, 11:25 PM
ziaee added a comment to D59481: LinuxKPI: preserve shmem backing ownership for managed PFN mappings.

(I may not be following, please excuse me if my assessment is incorrect)
Please stop this.
If you don't know what is going on in the patch, and cannot explain it, and use many words, also the patch is large, it is not useful and hurts.

Mon, Sep 21, 11:13 PM
ziaee committed R9:333337309042: hardware: Add some 3G cellular drivers... (authored by ziaee).
hardware: Add some 3G cellular drivers...
Mon, Sep 21, 9:10 PM
ziaee committed rG2784767077f3: umct.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, HARDWARE, tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
umct.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, HARDWARE, tag SPDX
Mon, Sep 21, 9:08 PM
ziaee committed rG71a0ea70234d: umcs.4: Describe better, canonicalize SYNOPSIS (authored by ziaee).
umcs.4: Describe better, canonicalize SYNOPSIS
Mon, Sep 21, 9:07 PM
ziaee committed rGb952821be787: ulpt.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
ulpt.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX
Mon, Sep 21, 9:07 PM
ziaee committed rG6204c60fc043: uled.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
uled.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX
Mon, Sep 21, 9:07 PM
ziaee added inline comments to D59878: nvmecontrol: Use admin device for admin-passthru.
Mon, Sep 21, 6:46 PM
ziaee added a reviewer for D59878: nvmecontrol: Use admin device for admin-passthru: manpages.
Mon, Sep 21, 5:10 PM
ziaee committed rGf1a4ac4aca47: uipaq.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
uipaq.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX
Mon, Sep 21, 5:07 PM
ziaee committed rGf4e7e5eced39: ukbd.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX (authored by ziaee).
ukbd.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS, tag SPDX
Mon, Sep 21, 5:07 PM
ziaee committed rG00d693e47efd: ufoma.4: Improve HARDWARE introductory sentence (authored by ziaee).
ufoma.4: Improve HARDWARE introductory sentence
Mon, Sep 21, 4:52 PM
ziaee committed rG2407b84c6835: uhso.4: describe better, SYNOPSIS, HARDWARE, SPDX (authored by ziaee).
uhso.4: describe better, SYNOPSIS, HARDWARE, SPDX
Mon, Sep 21, 4:52 PM