From: debdrup@FreeBSD.org
Introduction
This report covers FreeBSD related projects for the period between April and
June, and is the second of four planned reports for 2021.
Some of this reports highlights include but are not limited to work on an
experimental installer, changes to pf, additional work on the Linuxulator,
updates on the state of kernel sanitizers, coverage of the raidz expansion
feature for ZFS, and some news about resource accounting.
Yours,
Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, with status hat on.
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Table of Contents
• FreeBSD Team Reports
□ FreeBSD Foundation
□ FreeBSD Release Engineering Team
□ Cluster Administration Team
□ Continuous Integration
□ Ports Collection
□ Documentation Engineering Team
• Projects
□ BSDDialog - TUI Widgets
□ Experimental installer
□ Git Migration Working Group
□ LLDB Debugger Improvements
□ Performance Monitoring Counters
□ syzkaller on FreeBSD
• Kernel
□ NXP DPAA driver
□ ENA FreeBSD Driver Update
□ Graphics Driver Update from Linux 5.7
□ Intel Wireless driver support
□ Kernel Sanitizers
□ Linux compatibility layer update
□ NXP LS1028A SoC support
□ Marvell ARM64 SoCs support
□ Multicast routing rework
□ VFS path descriptors API
□ Dummynet support for pf
□ Ethernet support for pf
□ pf syncookie support
□ Microchip PolarFire SoC support
□ Racct (Resource Accounting) Bug Fixes and Improvements
□ OpenZFS RAIDZ Expansion update
□ Microchip Switchtec support
• Ports
□ Emacs Ports
□ FreeBSD Erlang Ecosystem Ports update
□ GCC in the Ports Tree (lang/gcc*)
□ KDE on FreeBSD
□ libglvnd on FreeBSD
□ FreeBSD in Science
• Documentation
□ FreeBSD Translations on Weblate
• Miscellaneous
• Third-Party Projects
□ FreshPorts
□ helloSystem
□ Containers & FreeBSD: Pot, Potluck & Potman
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FreeBSD Team Reports
Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in the
Administration Page.
FreeBSD Foundation
Contact: Deb Goodkin
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to
supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. Funding
comes from individual and corporate donations and is used to fund and manage
software development projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide
travel grants to FreeBSD contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports
hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources
to improve security, quality assurance, and software engineering efforts;
publishes marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD
Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD
developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts,
license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized
legal entity.
Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter:
COVID-19 Impact to the Foundation
Like most organizations, our team continued to work from home. Our temporary
ban on travel for staff members remains in effect, but continues to not affect
our output too much, since most conferences are still virtual. As the world
continues to open up we will re-evaluate the travel ban. We continued
supporting the community and Project through our regular channels.
Partnerships and Commercial User Support
We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD
developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that
information back to the Project. Our temporary travel ban stayed in effect
during Q2, so we continued meeting with corporate users virtually. If things
look good for in-person meetings in the fall, then we’ll start incorporating
those into an in-person and virtual meeting mix.
Fundraising Efforts
First, we’d like to say thank you to everyone who has given us a financial
contribution this year! Last quarter we raised $70,410, which includes
donations from organizations like Verisign, VMware, and Stormshield, as well as
many individuals.
We depend on these donations to fund our work supporting FreeBSD. Late last
year we decided to put more funding into helping to improve FreeBSD. We hired a
Sr. Software Developer to work on arm64 and a Project Coordinator to manage our
projects and interface with the community. We also hired two of our part-time
software developers full-time. The purpose of this was to provide more
resources to step in to implement and improve major features in FreeBSD, review
patches and bug reports, implement bug fixes, and support the security efforts.
This ensures FreeBSD remains the innovative, secure, and reliable operating
system that you rely on.
You’ll find out how we used your donations for Q2 in our report, as well as
individual reports throughout this status report.
We are excited about our plans for 2021, which include more FreeBSD online
advocacy and training, operating system course content, and the software
development work mentioned above. While we are still in this pandemic, we’re
working hard to help connect folks within the community with more virtual
opportunities.
Please consider making a donation to help us continue and increase our support
for FreeBSD in 2021: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.
We also have the Partnership Program, to provide more benefits for our larger
commercial donors. Find out more information and share with your companies!
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/
OS Improvements
During the second quarter Foundation staff and grant recipients committed 348
src tree changes, 19 ports tree changes, and 11 doc tree changes. This
represents 40% of src commits which identify a sponsor. For ports commits
it’s
15%, and 18% of doc commits. Foundation staff and grant recipients also
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