Hasso Tepper brought in a fix from OpenBSD for ssh; apparently empty banners on some types of network equipment would cause a disconnect. This isn’t major, but there may just be someone out there reading this for whom knowing about that saves a lot of frustration.
Sepherosa Ziehau has added code to make it possible to run network threads without the Big Giant Lock. It’s still experimental, so it has to be manually set via sysctl.
If you are running bleeding edge DragonFly, and you don’t mind panicing your system, Sepherosa Ziehau has made some changes. Specifically, if you see messages on your console about rtfree_remote(), set net.route.remote_free_panic to 1 and post a link to the resulting coredump.
Matthew Dillon made some changes to the scheduler; his commit message has some interesting details.
This sentence caught my eye from a recent commit by Sepherosa Ziehau: “it accidentally doubles the current lo0 performance“
Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL to version 0.9.8h, which fixes “two moderate security flaws“. The original diffs came from Andras Voroskoi.
Hasso Tepper has committed Dashu Huang’s “RFC3542 support” Summer of Code project.
In addition to committing acpi_cpu(4), Hasso Tepper has also enabled the powering-down of unused PCI devices. His post to users@ explains the details.
Matthias Schmidt has added a release info page for 2.2. This next release won’t be out for a few months, yet, but if you’re adding something new for that release, write it there so we don’t have to remember it all within 24 hours in January.
Remember rconfig(8)? Matthew Dillon’s added an example that will format a disk with UFS /boot and Hammer /everythingelse.
Matthew Dillon’s made more changes to the boot process, allowing the boot code to boot directly from a /boot partition. I’m abusing the English language with that last sentence.)Â This allows having a UFS /boot and a Hammer /everythingelse
More chunks of the DragonFly Summer of Code projects are getting committed – recently, it’s Louisa Luciani’s LiveDVD work and some of Max Lindner’s work on dma(8). (more DMA work forthcoming)
dhcp-3 has been removed from the base install of DragonFly. Instead, the install CD will come with the pkgsrc version. Matthias Schmidt and Andras Voroskoi ported over the OpenBSD version of dhclient.
Matthew Dillon has committed a significant amount of work from Jordan Gordeev’s Summer of Code project, for AMD64 support. (It is very close to being able to completely boot an AMD64 kernel) As he says in the commit message, the code is the product of many folks, but with much credit to Jordan Gordeev for getting the work to this point. As far as I know, Jordan will continue working on this past the Summer of Code, which makes it a double success.
Matthew Dillon’s been committing parts (example link) of Jordan Gordeev’s Summer of Code project for AMD64 support. It’s not done yet, but it should be by end-of-year.
Sepherosa Ziehau’s work on parallelizing DragonFly networking can be tried out (for those running bleeding edge code) by setting the sysctl kern.intr_mpsafe to 1.
Aggelos Economopoulos is looking for feedback for his NetMP (meaning giant lock removal from the network stack) work.
In a similar vein, Sepherosa Ziehau has committed the first stage of the first step of his parallelization of ipfw(4).
(Thanks to Sascha Wildner for the man page correction)