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 <report>
   <date>
     <month>July-September</month>
 
     <year>2017</year>
   </date>
 
   <section>
     <title>Introduction</title>
 
     <p><strong>This is a draft of the July&ndash;September 2017
       status report.  Please check back after it is finalized, and
       an announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
       list.</strong></p>
 
     <?ignore
     <p>This report covers &os;-related projects between July and
       September 2017.  This is the third of four reports planned for
       2017.</p>
 
     <p>The third quarter of 2017 was another productive quarter for
       the &os; project and community. [...]</p>
 
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering the period from October
       to December 2017 is January 7, 2017.</p>
      ?>
   </section>
 
   <category>
     <name>team</name>
 
     <description>&os; Team Reports</description>
 
     <p>Entries from the various official and semi-official teams,
       as found in the <a href="&enbase;/administration.html">Administration
 	Page</a>.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>proj</name>
 
     <description>Projects</description>
 
     <p>Projects that span multiple categories, from the kernel and userspace
       to the Ports Collection or external projects.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>kern</name>
 
     <description>Kernel</description>
 
     <p>Updates to kernel subsystems/features, driver support,
       filesystems, and more.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>arch</name>
 
     <description>Architectures</description>
 
     <p>Updating platform-specific features and bringing in support
       for new hardware platforms.</p>.
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>bin</name>
 
     <description>Userland Programs</description>
 
     <p>Changes affecting the base system and programs in it.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>ports</name>
 
     <description>Ports</description>
 
     <p>Changes affecting the Ports Collection, whether sweeping
       changes that touch most of the tree, or individual ports
       themselves.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>doc</name>
 
     <description>Documentation</description>
 
     <p>Noteworthy changes in the documentation tree or new external
       books/documents.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>misc</name>
 
     <description>Miscellaneous</description>
 
     <p>Objects that defy categorization.</p>
   </category>
 
   <category>
     <name>third</name>
 
     <description>Third-Party Projects</description>
 
     <p>Many projects build upon &os; or incorporate components of
       &os; into their project.  As these projects may be of interest 
       to the broader &os; community, we sometimes include brief
       updates submitted by these projects in our quarterly report.
       The &os; project makes no representation as to the accuracy or
       veracity of any claims in these submissions.</p>
   </category>
 
   <project cat='team'>
     <title>&os; Release Engineering Team</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>&os;&nbsp;Release Engineering Team</name>
 	<email>re@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html">&os;&nbsp;11.1-RELEASE Announcement</url>
       <url href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/10.4R/schedule.html">&os;&nbsp;10.4-RELEASE Schedule</url>
       <url href="https://download.FreeBSD.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/">&os; Development Snapshots</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>The &os; Release Engineering Team is responsible for setting
 	and publishing release schedules for official project releases
 	of &os;, announcing code freezes, and maintaining the
 	respective branches, among other things.</p>
 
       <p>The &os; Release Engineering Team continued finalizing the
 	11.1-RELEASE cycle, with the final release builds starting on
 	July 21 and the official release announcement email sent on
 	July 26.  Thank you to everyone who helped test 11.1-RELEASE,
 	ensuring its quality and stability.&nbsp;[1]</p>
 
       <p>&os;&nbsp;11.1-RELEASE is the second release from the
 	<tt>stable/11</tt> branch.</p>
 
       <p>Additionally, the &os; Release Engineering Team started the
 	10.4-RELEASE cycle, with the code slush starting on July 28.
 	With the final release build expected to start on September 29
 	and the official announcement overlapping the end of the
 	quarter, everything is on schedule as of this
 	writing.&nbsp;[2]</p>
 
       <p>&os;&nbsp;10.4-RELEASE will be the fifth release from the
 	<tt>stable/10</tt> branch, and is planned to be the final release
 	of the 10.x series.</p>
     </body>
 
     <sponsor>The &os; Foundation&nbsp;[1]</sponsor>
 
     <partialsponsor>The &os; Foundation&nbsp;[2]</partialsponsor>
   </project>
 
   <project cat="arch">
     <title>AMD Zen (family 17h) support</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Conrad</given>
 	  <common>Meyer</common>
 	  <email>cem@FreeBSD.org</email>
 	</name>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <body>
       <p>This quarter, a bit of work was done to enhance platform
 	support for AMD Zen (Ryzen, Threadripper, Epyc) processors:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li>The CPU topology detection code was enhanced to properly
 	  detect Zen dies and CCXes.  This gives the scheduler more
 	  locality information to make scheduling decisions.</li>
 
 	<li>The x86 topology analysis was enhanced to report dies and
 	  CCXes, in addition to the existing reporting on packages,
 	  cores, and threads.  An example  of the new output is
 	  &quot;FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 groups x 2 cache groups
 	  x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads&quot;.</li>
 
 	<li>The amdsmn(4) driver for accessing SMN (System Management
 	  Network) registers was added.</li>
 
 	<li>CPU temperature monitoring support for Zen was added to
 	  amdtemp(4).</li>
 
 	<li>In cpufreq(4):
 	  <ul>
 	    <li>Added support for decoding Zen P-state info from MSRs
 	      (mostly not necessary due to ACPI P-state information,
 	      but potentially useful)</li>
 
 	    <li>Work around the apparent Ryzen inability to achieve
 	      the P1 state by not busying cores waiting to
 	      transition.</li>
 	  </ul>
 	</li>
 
 	<li>The intpm(4) smbus driver was fixed to attach to FCH
 	  (Fusion Controller Hub).</li>
 
 	<li>All MCA banks are now enabled and monitored on Zen
 	  CPUs.</li>
 
 	<li>Feature bit decoding was added for: CLZERO, SVM features,
 	  RAS capabilities.</li>
 
 	<li>SHA intrinsic support was added to the aesni(4) driver.
 	  Ryzen is currently the only desktop processor to feature
 	  these intrinsics.  Support is also present in Intel's
 	  Goldmont line of low end SoCs.</li>
       </ul>
 
       <p>Overall, Zen is now a very usable platform for x86
 	workstations and servers.</p>
     </body>
 
     <sponsor>Dell EMC Isilon</sponsor>
 
     <help>
       <task>Add HWPMC support for new performance counters in
 	Zen.</task>
 
       <task>Add support for the CCP (Crypto Co-Processor).</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='bin'>
     <title>Updates to GDB</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>John</given>
 	  <common>Baldwin</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
 
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Luca</given>
 	  <common>Pizzamiglio</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>pizzamig@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <body>
-      <p>The port has been updated to GDB 8.0.</p>
+      <p>The port has been updated to GDB 8.0.1.</p>
 
       <p>Support for &os;/aarch64 userland binaries has been committed
 	upstream.  These patches, along with support for debugging
 	&os;/aarch64 kernels, have been committed to the port.</p>
 
       <p>Upstream patches adding improved support for &os;/arm userland
 	binaries are currently in review.  &os; 12 has recently grown
 	support for debugging VFP registers via <tt>ptrace()</tt> and
 	core dumps as part of this work.  Support for &os;/arm kernels
 	will be added to the port after the upstream patches are added
 	to the port.</p>
 
        <p>Support for <tt>$_siginfo</tt> has been committed upstream.
 	 This uses the recently added NT_LWPINFO note to extract
 	 signal information from process cores.</p>
 
        <p>Hangs that occured when GDB's <tt>kill</tt> command was used
 	 were fixed in &os; in r313992.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Figure out why the powerpc <tt>kgdb</tt> targets are not able to
 	unwind the stack past the initial frame.</task>
 
       <task>Test support for sparc64 binaries and kernels.</task>
 
       <task>Add support for debugging powerpc vector registers.</task>
 
       <task>Implement <tt>info proc</tt> commands.</task>
 
       <task>Implement <tt>info os</tt> commands.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='doc'>
     <title>Absolute &os;, 3rd Edition</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Michael</given>
 	  <common>Lucas</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3020">Official Announcement</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>The first draft of the third edition of <em>Absolute
 	&os;</em> is finished.  It is 220,200 words, or roughly enough to
 	stun a medium-sized ox.  It's on target to be in print before
 	BSDCan 2018.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Stare at the wall blankly for a few days.</task>
 
       <task>Fix all the problems pointed out by dozens of community
 	reviewers.</task>
 
       <task>Fix all the problems pointed out by John Baldwin, tech
 	reviewer extraordinaire.</task>
 
       <task>Editing.  Copyediting.  Page layout.  Page editing.
 	Re-editing.  Indexing.  Edits discovered by indexer.</task>
 
       <task>Pre-orders should open some time next year.</task>
 
       <task>Restrain myself from strangling people who ask when the
 	fourth edition is coming.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='ports'>
     <title>Puppet</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>Puppet Team</name>
 	<email>puppet@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://puppetcommunity.slack.com/messages/C6CK0UGB1/">Puppetlab's &os; Slack Channel</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>This summer has seen the creation of a puppet@ team to help
 	maintain the ~30 Puppet-related ports in the &os; ports tree.
 	These ports were previously maintained by various committers,
 	and from time to time this introduced some delays when
 	updating a port due to the need to wait for a maintainer's
 	approval for a related change to a different port.</p>
 
       <p>Puppet 5 is now in the ports tree (as
 	<tt>sysutils/puppet5</tt>).  The C++ version of Facter
 	(<tt>sysutils/facter</tt>) got a lot of love and is now a
 	drop-in replacement for the previous Ruby version of Facter
 	(<tt>sysutils/rubygem-facter</tt>); it is the default facts
 	source for the Puppet 5 port.</p>
 
       <p>Work continues on bringing in Puppetserver 5 to the ports
 	tree, and on keeping all the ports up-to-date.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>The <tt>pkgng</tt> package provider has some minor issues
 	(it breaks things when no repos are configured, and is not
 	working properly from the context of the MCollective package
 	agent).</task>
 
       <task>The <tt>databases/puppetdb[345]</tt> and
 	<tt>sysutils/puppetserver[45]</tt> ports rely on Clojure and
 	Java, and download compiled jar files instead of building them
 	from source.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='kern'>
     <title>Intel iWARP Support</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Bartosz</given>
 	  <common>Sobczak</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>bartosz.sobczak@intel.com</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://reviews.FreeBSD.org/D11378">iWARP for
       <tt>ixl</tt></url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>iWARP is a protocol suite that enables efficient movement
 	of data across the network, building on Remote Direct Memory
 	Access, Direct Data Placement, and Marker PDU Aligned Framing.
 	It endeavors to avoid unnecessary (local) data copies and
 	offload work from the main CPU to dedicated hardware.</p>
 
       <p>An initial commit adding iWARP support for the Intel X722
 	family of network adapters is under review.  This is an
 	important step towards introducing full iWARP support on
 	systems equipped with Intel C620 Series Chipsets.  Currently,
 	with the <tt>iw_ixl</tt> driver, only the kVerbs API is
 	supported.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Additional testing.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='kern'>
     <title>Intel 10G <tt>iflib</tt> Driver Update</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Chris</given>
 	  <common>Galazka</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>krzysztof.galazka@intel.com</email>
       </person>
 
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Piotr</given>
 	  <common>Pietruszewski</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>piotr.pietruszewski@intel.com</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://reviews.FreeBSD.org/D11727"><tt>ixgbe</tt> <tt>iflib</tt> Conversion</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>The <tt>ix</tt> and <tt>ixv</tt> network interface drivers
 	support a variety of Intel network interfaces, with line
 	speeds at 10 Gbit/second.</p>
 
       <p>This quarter, with the help of Matt Macy and Sean Bruno (among
 	others), we've submitted a review in Phabricator for the
 	conversion of the <tt>ixgbe</tt> driver to use the new (and evolving)
 	<tt>iflib</tt> interface.</p>
 
       <p>Stay tuned for the conversion of the 40G driver
 	(<tt>ixl</tt>) as it is currently being ported to use
 	<tt>iflib</tt>.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Additional testing.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='ports'>
     <title>FreeBSDDesktop</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Johannes</given>
 	  <common>Dieterich</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>jmd@freebsd.org</email>
       </person>
 
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Mark</given>
 	  <common>Johnston</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>markj@freebsd.org</email>
       </person>
 
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Hans Petter</given>
 	  <common>Selasky</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>hselasky@freebsd.org</email>
       </person>
 
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Matthew</given>
 	  <common>Macy</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>mmacy@nextbsd.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/">FreeBSDDesktop GitHub</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>The FreeBSDDesktop team is happy to announce the availability of
 	<tt>graphics/drm-next-kmod</tt>. This port for &os; CURRENT
 	(amd64) provides support for the <tt>amdgpu</tt>,
 	<tt>i915</tt>, and <tt>radeon</tt> DRM
 	modules using the <tt>linuxkpi</tt> compatibility framework.
 	The port currently corresponds to DRM from Linux 4.9 and is in
 	an experimental state. It works reliably for a lot of testers
 	with modern GPU hardware (AMD HD7000 series/Tahiti to Polaris
 	and Intel HD3000/Sandy Bridge to Skylake). Broader testing and
 	reporting/fixing of bugs is appreciated.</p> </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Resolve issues that cause <tt>radeonkms</tt> and
 	<tt>amdgpu</tt> to fail with EFI boot (though there is a
 	workaround available).</task>
 
       <task>Upgrade to Linux 4.10 and higher DRM versions.</task>
 
       <task>Get feedback from broader testing.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat="ports">
     <title>OpenJFX 8</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>Tobias</given>
 	  <common>Kortkamp</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>tobik@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Main">OpenJFX Wiki</url>
       <url href="https://www.freshports.org/java/openjfx8-devel"><tt>java/openjfx8-devel</tt></url>
       <url href="https://www.freshports.org/java/openjfx8-scenebuilder"><tt>java/openjfx8-scenebuilder</tt></url>
       <url href="https://github.com/asciidocfx/AsciidocFX">AsciidocFX</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
 	<p>OpenJFX is an open source, next generation client
 	  application platform for desktop and embedded systems
 	  based on JavaSE.  This quarter, the OpenJFX port was
 	  reworked and has some significant improvements.</p>
 
 	<p>More modules are being built.  With the new web module we
 	  gain support for applications that have their own builtin
 	  web browser like e.g.  AsciidocFX.  The new media module
 	  allows JavaFX applications to playback audio and video
 	  files.</p>
 
 	<p>A port of the JavaFX scenebuilder, a RAD tool for
 	  building JavaFX scenes, was added to the ports tree.</p>
 
 	<p>The OpenGL Prism backend for GPU acceleration was enabled
 	  by default.</p>
 
 	<p>From a mainainer's and contributor's perspective, the
 	  port was simplified by moving all &os;-local patches to
 	  the ports tree and fetching the upstream sources directly
 	  instead of using a separate repository for them.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Upstream some of the patches</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='team'>
     <title>Ports Collection</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
 	  <given>René</given>
 	  <common>Ladan</common>
 	</name>
 	<email>portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
 
       <person>
 	<name>&os; Ports Management Team</name>
 	<email>portmgr@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/">About &os; Ports</url>
       <url href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html">Contributing to Ports</url>
       <url href="http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html">&os; Ports Monitoring</url>
       <url href="https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html">Ports Management Team Website</url>
       <url href="https://twitter.com/freebsd_portmgr/">&os; portmgr on Twitter (@freebsd_portmgr)</url>
       <url href="https://www.facebook.com/portmgr">&os; Ports Management Team on Facebook</url>
       <url href="https://plus.google.com/communities/108335846196454338383">&os; Ports Management Team on Google+</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>The Ports Collection now features over 31,600 ports. There are currently
 	2671 problem reports, of which 718 are unassigned. This quarter saw
 	almost 5,900 commits from 175 committers. The number of open PRs grew
 	compared to last quarter, and outpaced the number of changes.</p>
 
       <p>This quarter, we welcomed Zach Leslie (zleslie@), Luca Pizzamiglio
 	(pizzamig@), Craig Leres (leres@), Adriaan de Groot (adridg@), and Dave
 	Cottlehuber (dch@) as new committers. The commit bits of the following
 	committers were taken in for safekeeping: alonso@ after 19 months of
 	inactivity, rpaulo@ per his request, and ache@ after he passed away.
 	Despite several tries and changing mentors, kami@ lacked interest in
 	completing his mentorship, so his commit bit was also taken in for
 	safekeeping.</p>
 
       <p>On the infrastructure side, two <tt>USES</tt> values were
 	removed because they outlived their usefulness:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li><tt>execinfo</tt>: <tt>libexecinfo</tt> is now available in the
 	  base system of all supported &os; versions</li>
 
 	<li><tt>twisted</tt>: there is only one Twisted port left</li>
       </ul>
 
       <p>The default version of GCC was bumped from 5 to 6. Firefox was updated
 	to version 56.0 and Chromium to version 61.0.3163.100. The version of
 	<tt>pkg</tt> itself was updated to 1.10.1.</p>
 
       <p>During this quarter, antoine@ performed 28 exp-runs to test version
 	updates of major ports, improving <tt>USE_GITHUB</tt> and
 	<tt>SHEBANG_FILES</tt>, and API changes to the base system.
 	This quarter, the foundations for ports &quot;flavors&quot; were
 	committed, though more development and testing will be
 	performed in the coming quarter before it goes live.</p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>The PR load needs more attention, as the number of open PRs
 	has started to increase again.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='proj'>
     <title>&os; CI</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>Jenkins Admins</name>
 	<email>jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org</email>
       </person>
     </contact>
 
     <links>
       <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci"><tt>freebsd-ci</tt> Repository</url>
       <url href="https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing">freebsd-testing Mailing List</url>
       <url href="http://ci.FreeBSD.org">&os; Jenkins Instance</url>
     </links>
 
     <body>
       <p>The &os; CI team runs various continuous integration
 	solutions for &os;, regularly checking that the current state
 	of the Subversion repository can successfully build, and
 	performing various tests and analysis upon the build
 	results.</p>
 
       <p>We have introduced a DTrace test pipeline, with the results
 	and artifacts available at:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li><a href="https://ci.FreeBSD.org/job/&os;-head-amd64-dtrace_test/">https://ci.FreeBSD.org/job/&os;-head-amd64-dtrace_test/</a></li>
 
 	<li><a href="https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/">https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org/dtrace-test/</a></li>
       </ul>
 
       <p>We had 2 developer summits in Q3:</p>
 
       <ul>
 	<li><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DevSummit/201708/Testing">BSDcam</a></li>
 	<li><a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DevSummit/201709">EuroBSDCon</a></li>
       </ul>
     </body>
 
     <help>
       <task>Fix the failing cases and builds.</task>
 
       <task>Create builds for additional architectures.</task>
 
       <task>Add more tests.</task>
 
       <task>The additional TODO items listed at <a
 	href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Jenkins/TODO">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Jenkins/TODO</a>.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
 </report>