Archive for June 2005
The scheduler has been rewritten by Matthew Dillon - again! Except this time, it’s very close to the original CSRG implementation. The eventual goal is to allow other schedulers to be used, on the fly.
OSNews has an interview about what’s planned for FreeBSD. Not much bearing on DragonFly, other than it’s interesting to see where the design goals match and diverge.
Matthew Dillon hints that using polling may be a way to get a finicky PCMCIA network card to work.
Jeffrey Hsu has replaced the FreeBSD-based file descriptor allocator with a new algorithm of his own design, apparently influenced by Solaris. It scales like no other.
Hiten Pandya describes ‘makewhatis -o local-manpages.txt‘ as a quick trick to make a reference list of available utilities.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert is looking for people willing to test his DRM/DRI changes; if you’ve got a 3D card (ATI Radeon, Matrox, etc.), contact him for instructions on testing.
UnixReview.com has an article on some miscellaneous tasks that can be accomplished with some clever shell scripting.
The Handbook is at 828 7″x9″ pages, going by what Jeremy Reed produced. (Link goes to a PDF.)
Jeremy C. Reed, of bsdnewsletter.com fame, is the newest DragonFly committer, and has been tackling the dangerous task of documentation!