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.
Matthew Dillon’s 4th VFS patch probably will go in today. ‘esmith’ asked why nullfs was so broken on FreeBSD, and how it was better on DragonFly, to which Matthew Dillon posted this reply, which happens to include some details of his next major task.
Update: commited, with further explanation of what changed.
Joerg Sonnenberger has added NForce onboard ehternet support, while Jeroen Ruigrok has updated timezones. Matthew Dillon has brought VESA support in line with FreeBSD-CURRENT.