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Lazy Reading for 2011/10/09

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:39:48 +0000

Getting close to 2.12 release…

Steam and Team Fortress 2 running on a BSD – PC-BSD with an NVIDIA driver, in this case, but it may apply to other cards and other games. Using Wine is always so intricate, it seems.
Remember how suddenly a large chunk of Internet traffic was suddenly routed through China, briefly in early 2010? Apparently it’s happened a few more times since then. This article at the Economist talks about that and the SCION project, in an accessible way.
The 2011 Interactive Fiction Competition has released this year’s entries, and almost all of them can be played online. (via) There goes a few hours of your life. Sorry.
Speaking of hours, there’s apparently a civil lawsuit that has rendered timezone data unavailable. Here’s a good summation. It’s a frustrating scenario. (via multiple places)
World’s best introduction to sed.

It’s x86_64 now, not amd64

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:05:59 +0000

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has changed 64-bit DragonFly to be tagged “x86_64″ instead of “amd64″. It seems most other operating systems use that for 64-bit system architechure names. So does pkgsrc, which may fix some recent builds on amd64 x86_64

Pkgsrc binaries for 2.5/amd64/2009Q3

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:01:01 +0000

If you’re running an AMD64 DragonFly system, there’s new pkgsrc binaries for you on avalon.dragonflybsd.org. (See report) The pkg_radd utility will pick them up automatically, or you can use pkgin.

Update: Well, be patient if what you need isn’t there yet. The packages are still uploading to avalon…

pkgsrc 2009Q3 officially announced

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:41:32 +0000

Details of the new release are found in the announcement, including some biggies like KDE4. I’m building binaries for this release, for DragonFly i386/2.4, i386/2.5, and amd64/2.5. (Though the 2.5 binaries for amd64 should work on the amd64 2.4 release, too.)

Test images for amd64

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:00:33 +0000

If you were bit by the bug where the 64-bit version of DragonFly wouldn’t boot from CD/DVD on your system, Matthew Dillon has some test images of DragonFly 2.4 for testing. Please use and report if it was successful.

ACPI, umass fix for amd64

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:00:27 +0000

If you’re running DragonFly 2.4 on amd64, you may have noticed trouble with USB drives or separate issues with ACPI. Both seem to be fixed by the same commit. It’s been merged to the 2.4 branch, so updating on that branch will get the fixes without moving to 2.5.

Watch out for WARNS_WERROR

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:57:31 +0000

WARNS_WERROR has been turned on, for i386 and for amd64 builds. This means that warnings will halt a build just like an error. This should mean that the number of warnings from DragonFly source (already lower because of Sasha Wildner’s efforts, among others) should only decrease from now on.

Newest committer: Jordan Gordeev

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:39:21 +0000

DragonFly’s newest committer is Jordan Gordeev, whose name may already be familiar. He’s the student behind the 2008/2009 Summer of Code projects for AMD64 support in DragonFly. You’ll notice the 2.4 release has a 64-bit version, in no small part due to his effort. Welcome Jordan!

i386 and amd64 for pkgsrc

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:58:52 +0000

The packages directory on avalon.dragonflybsd.org now has a i386 directory and an amd64 directory. I’ve changed pkg_search and pkg_radd to base their search/retrieval on processor arch; this means that once we have pkgsrc packages built on a 64-bit platform, they will be accessible.

More bullets

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:05:11 +0000

I’ve got a number of little items, so more roundup:

How much disruption happened in DragonFly after introducing a dynamic device system? Surprisingly, very little, as most of pkgsrc still builds. Thanks are due to Hasso Tepper for the corrective work.
_why makes some very perceptive comments.
Jordan Gordeev’s been working on the very difficult AMD64 port as part of his Summer of Code work. He says thanks for the help, and others reply in kind. Speaking of which, it’s possible to boot 64-bit DragonFly now, though it’s not production-ready.

AMD64 progress update

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:39:12 +0000

The in-progress code for the Summer of Code project ‘DragonFly on AMD64′ has been imported; you can now build for SMP on AMD64, and complete a installworld/buildworld, natively. Modules don’t (yet) compile…

GSoC 2009: so far for devfs and AMD64

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:19:40 +0000

Alex Hornung posted a summary of how his work on devfs is going, and Jordan Gordeev posted a summary of how much AMD64 is functional.

If you want to try either one (warning: many parts still broken!), use a vkernel for the devfs so a physical system doesn’t get broken. There’s build instructions for pulling together AMD64 DragonFly.

Update: manual instructions for AMD64, too.

GSOC: AMD64

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:18:05 +0000

Another Summer of Code summary: Jordan Gordeev is returning to AMD64 work. He appears to be ahead of schedule, too.

Summer of Code accepted students

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:37:15 +0000

There’s 5 slots for DragonFly in Summer of Code for 2009, and the students in those slots are listed below. We had some very good applications; more than we had room for and higher quality than last year. If you did not get in, please consider working independently.

Student: Alexander Hornung
Project: DevFS for DragonFly BSD
Mentor: joe talbott

Student: Dan Chis
Project: Support debugging of multi-threaded applications
Mentor: schubert simon

Student: robert luciani
Project: Profile kernel contention on MP systems
Mentor: Samuel Greear

Student: Jordan Gordeev
Project: Finish amd64 port of DragonFly
Mentor: Matthew Dillon

Student: efstathios kamperis
Project: C99/POSIX Conformance Audit
Mentor: hasso tepper

(announcement here)

AMD64 work continues

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:56:23 +0000

Matthew Dillon and Jordan Gordeev have done further work on AMD64 support; it’s progressing quickly. Check that first link for a hint on how to install correct boot code.

AMD64 building and testing

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:47:34 +0000

Mathtew Dillon has added an automatic building and testing environment for AMD64 support. This one command will build an entire boot image, along with qemu to run it in, though some issues with compiling qemu remain. (Related)

Lots of new code

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:58:19 +0000

So much that I’m doing bullet points:

Peter Avalos brought in nsswitch and replaced portmap with rpcbind.
Aggelos Economopoulos brought in his NETMP branch, where he is removing the BGL from socket code.
Sepherosa Ziehau added support (from FreeBSD) for Attansic network chips.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert brought in the remainder of Jordan Gordeev’s AMD64 work.
Simon and other DragonFly developers are at 25C3 this week – say hi!

Significant AMD64 code committed

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:43:14 +0000

Matthew Dillon has committed a significant amount of work from Jordan Gordeev’s Summer of Code project, for AMD64 support. (It is very close to being able to completely boot an AMD64 kernel) As he says in the commit message, the code is the product of many folks, but with much credit to Jordan Gordeev for getting the work to this point. As far as I know, Jordan will continue working on this past the Summer of Code, which makes it a double success.

More AMD64 work

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:57:15 +0000

Matthew Dillon’s been committing parts (example link) of Jordan Gordeev’s Summer of Code project for AMD64 support.Â It’s not done yet, but it should be by end-of-year.

Google Summer of Code wiki pages

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:58:46 +0000

We have a page up for the AMD64 port and another for DMA enhancement. I’ve asked all the students involved to create pages, so as they finish exams, I expect more summaries to arrive.