This site was mentioned in the BSD News section of the November DaemonNews ezine. Neat!
Plus, I’ve reached 100 posts! This is actually the 102nd, if I’m counting right, minus early test posts.
Aaaaand I broke the mailarchive.
Matt Dillon’s putting in some material from FreeBSD-5, so if PNPBIOS is defined, you may not produce a working kernel during the next few days.
update: PNPBIOS should not be enabled if you have a AMD64 machine, and the K8V motherboard, as that appears to be broken.
Jeroen Ruigrok is setting up Bugzilla for tracking bugs/requests for DragonFly. As part of the process, there’s some 6,000 (!) items brought over from FreeBSD-4. No link yet…
The 3c940 ethernet driver (found on ASUS K8V motherboards) is now supported. It’s the ‘sk’ device. Matt Dillon’s AMD64 machine apparently arrived.
I was pointed at the gmane.org site to find old dragonfly.kernel postings. I moved in what was there, and so the local kernel archive has several months of history added in, now. Docs doesn’t seem to be working yet…
David Rhodus has been commiting a whole bunch of fixes from FreeBSD today. You can tell just by looking at the mailing list archive for commits@, freshly set up, and updated hourly along with the other archives.
Anyone have old list traffic sitting around, perhaps in mbox format? I’d like to backfill.
send-pr, the strange commandline utility for making a bug report, now goes to the bugs mailing list.
Byron Schlemmer put up Matt Dillon’s slides from his Berkley talk as HTML pages.
Eirik Nygaard has also cleaned out all the __P() in usr.bin and usr.sbin, and incidentally gained a commit bit. Congrabulations.
In a thread about booting media, Matt Dillon noted he was going to:
- Look at Jeff Hsu’s TCP thread code
- implement variant symlinks
- start VFS messaging and environments
VFS will make a number of other things – especially a new port system – possible.
James Frazer found, and David Rhodus corroborated, that NTFS support tain’t working.
till noted in a comment here that www.dragonflybsd.de is live, and is using the RDF feed from this site.
Eirik Nygaard submitted a patch that removes over 700 instances of __P() from src/sbin/. It’s been committed.