Category: Goings-on

Matt Dillon’s changes to buildworld are done; the next make buildworld you do will take a bit longer, but you should be able to do make quickworld thereafter, which should be… quicker!

Be careful, for the time being, doing a make -j, though. If that fails, Matt asks:

In one xterm: make -j 4 buildworld >& /tmp/bw.out
In another xterm: tail -f /tmp/bw.out | fgrep ===

Save the results, and post a link to it in the kernel discussion group.

Matt Dillon has changed some settings on the DragonFly news server that mirrors the mailing list traffic; now, all posts ever made are visible.

For those readers who follow the emacs religion: Andreas Fuchs found that the emacs build expects /usr/lib/crtbegin.o, which does not exist on DragonFly. Rahul Siddharthan removed the mention of crtbegin.o from the makefile for emacs, and that seems to fix it.

Updated: Hiten Pandya added a port override for emacs, made by Aaron Malone. That solves it.

Since “MFC” (Merged From Current) is used to denote a feature brought from FreeBSD 5 to FreeBSD 4, what would these be? MF4? In any case, Hiten Pandya has a lot of FreeBSD 4 commits he may want to bring into DragonFly. How many? This many.

‘esmith’ pointed out that the FireFox NetBSD binary at mozilla.org is available for download and appears to work fine on DragonFly.

Chris Pressey, style(9) maven, is now a committer. This is probably due to the large quantity of cleanup patches he has already submitted. Congratulations, Chris.

There’s a new ‘known good’ ISO on the DragonFly download page (2004-3-17b) that includes, among other things, a fixed OpenSSL and a number of USB improvements – there’s a /README.USB file now.

Matt Dillon posted some numbers on performance of NFS over Gigabit Ethernet – using TCP, he was able to hit 80-something megabytes per second right off the bat, and saw nearly 90 using UDP. This improvement stems from Hiten Pandya’s work on the em driver and NFS block size changes.

As seen on Daemonnews, The Jem Report has a comparison of FreeBSD 5 on an AMD64 machine and a Pentium 4 machine. FreeBSD 5 performance is not directly comparable to DragonFly, but the architecture comparison is useful.

While talking about his (many, many) code cleanups, Chris Pressey pointed at the Erlang Programming Rules as a good guideline for programming style.

Shadow Committer Jeffrey Hsu is presenting a paper on DragonFly at AsiaBSDCon, and his paper can be downloaded now.

Are you using I4B/sppp? Don’t upgrade, as it’s the one interface that doesn’t support Berkley Packet Filters (BPF) and is temporarily broken while Joerg Sonnenberger works on the networking API. Contact Joerg if you are so lucky as to be affected by this.

Emiel Kollof is working on a DragonFly fortunes file. If you plan to say something clever involving DragonFly, do it where he can hear you.

As seen on Daemonnews, OSNews has an interview with Matt Dillon about DragonFly.

Eirik Nygaard has added a dfport for devel/valgrind, based on Doug Rabson’s FreeBSD port.

Matt Dillon pointed out that we could have at least a binary packaging system relatively easily, now:
Continue reading “Matt makes plans”

Matt Dillon has posted his list of personal tasks to finish before the 1.0 release in June of this year.
Continue reading “Goals for 1.0”

‘Till’ has set up some interesting stats taken from the IRC channel #dragonflybsd on EFNet.

The USENIX AsiaBSDCon is happening March 13th and 14th. Jeffrey Hsu, who has been working on DragonFly networking (with a good number of commits lately) will be giving a talk titled: “Concepts, Theory, and Implementation of DragonflyBSD”.

In an ongoing discussion of Chris Pressey’s proposed config(8) changes, Matt Dillon said Perl should be removed from the base system, at some point.