Hiten Pandya mentioned that Robert Watson has set up the FXR website (FreeBSD/Linux Cross Reference) for BSD code. It’s a personal domain, so please don’t tax it at present.

Greg Lehey put up a paper and slides from his Singapore presentation, describing the FreeBSD-5 SMPng work, both in terms of events and code. It’s an interesting read, since this is the path avoided in DragonFly. (Greg Lehey has a 2001 USENIX paper on SMPng, too, which mentions much of the same content.)

Jeroen Ruigrok has fixed make release.

On the freebsd-hackers mailing list, a slight flamewar erupted over discussion of checkpointing code from DragonFly. Amidst the dumbness that normally ensues in a flamewar, there’s some interesting descriptions on what work has been done/will be done on DragonFly. Check out the archive, mostly in the “FreeBSD mail list etiquette” thread. Matt Dillon’s posts here, here, and here are all info-packed.

Matt Dillon’s posted his slides from his talk at UCB Berkley, in OpenOffice format.

As part of another discussion, it’s been noted that trying to boot FreeBSD 5.1 and DragonFly from the same disk currently may not work if it’s UFS1, and definitely won’t if it’s UFS2.

Jeroen Ruigrok posted some links to papers about checkpointing and threads:

A User-level Checkpointing Library for POSIX Threads Programs:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/james99userlevel.html

Checkpointing and its applications:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/wang95checkpointing.html

Migratory applications:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/bharat95migratory.html

The main DragonFly site has been fixed up, in part with some changes I’ve submitted. Whee! I contributed!

Kip Macy brought up the idea of moving FreeBSD’s ataNG into DragonFly; the consensus so far is to bring it in separately from the existing ata support, since ataNG’s not yet completely stable.