David Rhodus has added support for the Silicon Image SATA controller.
Typesplitting
Joerg Sonnenberger has proposed breaking apart sys/types.h into two files – one that follows POSIX, and the other that does not. His proposal is pasted here.
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Packaging discussion log
Included in this entry is a log from #dragonflybsd where several folks talk about the packaging system proposal – I’ve cleaned it up a bit and I present it for your perusal.
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New token code arrives
Matt Dillon doesn’t let a small thing like physical pain stop him: he’s committed his newtoken code as mentioned here earlier. Now is a good time to update and rebuild, to try it out. The commit message follows:
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Other people’s business
NetBSD, recently incorporated as a non-profit, produced a 2003 report, where they detail some interesting work formalizing the support structure of a mostly volunteer project. I don’t recall if I mentioned it before, but the October-December 2003 FreeBSD Status Report came out a while back.
Better history
Aaron Malone submitted (and Hiten Pandya committed) a whole lot of man page changes to account for changes from FreeBSD to DragonFly in system name but not history. Specifically, the HISTORY sections. It’s not glamorous, but it’s good to do it.
Matt Dillon takes a spill
Matt Dillon will be coding a little more slowly for the next while – he broke his right clavicle while riding his bike, so his typing speed has been reduced, temporarily.
A BFD: bfe
Joerg Sonnenberger added a driver for the ‘bfe’ device, which is the Broadcom DCM4401 NIC.
The Plan for BSDCan
BSDCan is happening in Ottawa, Canada, May 13-16. Nothing DragonFly-specific planned there yet…
June bugs
Matt Dillon mentioned that June is the current target for a 1.0 release of DragonFly BSD.
Packaging thoughts
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has posted his initial thoughts about a packaging system; discussion about is on the dragonfly.kernel mailing list/newsgroup. Simon wants to move fast – 1-2 weeks for suggestions, then some weeks for implementation planning, and then jump in!
Permamixer
If you now set mixer_enable="YES" in rc.conf, your mixer settings will get saved, thanks to ibotty’s idea and Joerg Sonnenberger’s commit.
(I’m writing this without trying it, but that’s how I read it…)
Dragonflybsd.org updated
Dragonflybsd.org has a new layout, which can be mostly be called my fault.
dfports report
Joerg Sonnenberger has done some major cleanup to dfports. A cvsup would be a good idea.
A quote from him follows:
“Hi all, next time you update your dfports tree, you must update
/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mkand/usr/share/mk/bsd.dfport.mktoo. This should fix a lot of the problems various people mentioned in the past weeks. You should also check the dependencies e.g. of GTK+, if you haven’t rebuild your ports after January 25th. Otherwise the dependencies recorded are supposedly broken.”
All balled up
Andreas Hauser noted that he creates a tarball of the DragonFly source fresh on a daily basis, and puts it here: http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFlyBSD/dcvs.tar.bz2
ACPI added
Matt Dillon has brought in the December 2003 release of ACPI (acpica-unix-20031203) from Intel. The old code is still what’s on by default, as the new code builds but does not yet work.
DragonFly BitTorrent available
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has added a BitTorrent file for downloading the latest ISO of DragonFly from his site.
Living dangerously
Peter Kadau answered a question from Jonathon McKitrick about getting rid of your boot manager, if you just have DragonFly:
boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 -t 0 -B ad0
Matt Dillon followed up on the topic mentioning that the ‘Dangerously Dedicated’ mode from the old FreeBSD installer is probably no longer worthwhile, and may even cause problems.
ATAng just in case
Matt Dillon posted that if the recent ATAng integration keeps your IDE controller from working (though the opposite is more common), do:
#define NO_ATANG in /usr/src/sys/dev/disk/ata/ata-all.h
Propolice at least
Tomaz Borstnar noted that propolice support is still there for GCC2 (the only compiler at the time it was added) but not yet for GCC3. Matt Dillon followed up saying that other ‘gcc3isms’ have to be cleaned up first, though integration shouldn’t be hard.