Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added a dfport override for devel/apr, the APache Portable Runtime, which happens to recognize DragonFly.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s changes to the ips driver, for RAID devices such as ServeRAID. Among other benefits, it now supports more recent Adaptec hardware.
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 made some improvements to USB keyboard support.
The cu program has been out of the system for a long time; Matthew Dillon has committed
cu emulation in tip.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has committed initial work to support Silicon Image 3112 and 3124 SATA controllers.
Scott Ullrich has updated OpenSSH to version 3.9p1.
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.
But the base is there.
Matthew Dillon’s clarified how to have source recognition for your contribution to DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon has committed code that makes a ‘make buildkernel/nativekernel‘ remove the obj heirarchy before starting; this solves the occasional out-of-date file problem during a system build. Also, ‘make quickkernel‘ is now possible, so if you are building a system with source that has not been updated since the last build, you can save time and use the ‘quickworld‘ and ‘quickkernel‘ targets instead of ‘buildworld‘ and ‘buildkernel‘.
Emiel Kollof has updated (Jeroen Ruigrok/’asmodai’ committed) dfports/x11/nvidia-driver to version 6.1.1.3.
Joerg Sonnenberger has committed a large update, written by Andreas Hauser, to the port overrides for Xorg. It’s much more likely to work now, if you are looking to switch from XFree86.
Joerg Sonnenberger has committed the first half of Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s work on improving the IOCTL code, making support for (for instance) Linux calls much easier. Joerg also committed a change to module loading, suggested by Simon, which may allow modules such as AGP to load when otherwise they would not.
Eirik Nygaard has added message-passed syscalls into the system. They aren’t running for all users by default, but they will be once proved stable.
If your sound card previously did not work, a recent fix suggested by Barry Bouwsma and committed by Matthew Dillon may fix it. If you have a SF64-PCR sound card, a change in make.conf will be needed, as described in the link above.
It looks like if you have an older FreeBSD system (4.x version), it appears likely you can crossbuild DragonFly on top of it. 4.8 and later systems work for this, but earlier version haven’t previously been tried.