‘walt’ posted in kernel@ a note about the new Linux staircase scheduler, available here, and how it may be useful for DragonFly.
Joerg Sonnenberger has imported a new wi(4) driver for 802.11, taken from FreeBSD. Update: if this new driver doesn’t work for you, use owi(4), which is the older version.
Matthew Dillon noted in this post to kernel@ that he anticipates 64-bit work in perhaps 6 months, after VFS is completed.
Matthew Dillon made some improvements to USB keyboard support.
‘Rum’ has started work on dfport overrides for KDE 3.3.0. (The link he supplies appears not to work yet, however.)
The cu
program has been out of the system for a long time; Matthew Dillon has committed
cu
emulation in tip
.
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Matthew Dillon pointed out that when comitting functional changes to the DragonFly source, keep them separate from other modifications. That way, when other BSDs/projects use these modifications, it will be much easier for them to review and use.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert is looking for more information on finite state automatons, since a number of them appear in the DragonFly source.
… but it’s still being worked on.
Porting SMBUS support from FreeBSD would be a good small project for anyone to try, though Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai may beat you to it.
forknibbler.com now lists the DragonFly docs that are located there, including a PDF version of the Handbook.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has committed initial work to support Silicon Image 3112 and 3124 SATA controllers.
The ports/x11/nvidia-driver port currently stops during build with an error about vnode_if.h
. This is being worked on.
As Matthew Dillon described in a post to bugs@, anyone with a little assembly knowledge could fix up 8254 access.
Scott Ullrich has updated OpenSSH to version 3.9p1.