Committed Code – Page 24 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2015/04/062015/04/06

Hammer and Hammer2 details

I haven’t been drawing enough attention to it, but there’s been a bunch of HAMMER filesystem activity lately: First, Tomohiro Kusumi has been working on HAMMER – these posts are a small subset of his commits. Second, Matthew Dillon has been working full steam ahead on HAMMER2. The HAMMER2 design document has been updated (read this!), and he’s already accomplished master->slave disk syncing.

It’s not ready for production, of course, which you may already realize, so don’t install it unless you want to work on the code.

2015/04/03

Info pages gone

Do you use info pages? Yeah, me neither. John Marino’s removed or converted the various info pages already in DragonFly, and removed texinfo since it’s no longer required. (I’ve linked to a few examples, but there were a number more commits than this.)

2015/03/31

Blue bug, new shell

The default .cshrc in DragonFly has had some changes, which shouldn’t be anything but handy… assuming you are using tcsh. Also: the loader menu defaults to a blue Fred, now.

2015/03/31

New binutils, faster build

In the process of committing binutils 2.25 to DragonFly, John Marino also broke its build into parallel parts and removed the build of the gold linker. Buildworlds should be noticeably faster now, though I don’t have a before/after.

2015/03/162015/03/13

New ipfw in DragonFly

Bill Yuan’s work on a new ipfw has been committed, and for clarity, called “ipfw3“.

2015/03/13

USB update

Matthew Dillon pulled in a new USB update from FreeBSD to DragonFly. What does it change? I’m not completely sure, but he did it to get apcupsd working, so that may be a hint.

2015/01/22

DragonFly 4.0.3 out

DragonFly 4.0.3 has been tagged; you can look at the tagging message for details, but the major reason for doing so is to include OpenSSL-1.0.1l. I will have images up soon.

2015/01/16

SCTP removed

DragonFly no longer has SCTP. Nobody minds, I think – I had to look up what it is.

2015/01/07

Multiple disk speedup

The CAM layer in DragonFly has had its big lock removed/been marked MPSAFE, so you will notice a performance increase when using multiple disks. (assuming you aren’t throughput-limited, of course.)

2015/01/05

V4-mapped addresses out, TCP MTU discovery in

Sepherosa Ziehau has posted a note that V4-mapped addressing is no longer supported in DragonFly. You will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel if you are running master. Also, TCP MTU path discovery is on by default. Also also, he’s added a SOL_SOCKET/SO_CPUINT socket option for use to reduce load in heavy network activity. As usual, I don’t quite comprehend.

2014/12/12

Installworld, no matter what

It’s possible, if you are several releases (years) behind, to end up with a DragonFly system that can’t compile and install the current release, due to incremental changes over time. It’s rare, but it could happen now between, say, version 3.4 and 4.0. The usual solution would be to incrementally upgrade in order, which is a lot of building and updating. The alternative is the new installworld-force option from Matthew Dillon that forces a new set of binaries into place. Use as a last resort.

2014/12/042014/12/05

Fred, in color

The DragonFly boot menu has been cleaned up a bit, and Fred, the dragonfly drawn on DragonFly, is now in better color. In fact, there’s even an option to turn him blue.

Update: I wanted to see what this looked like, and I realized screenshots might help everyone else.

redfred

bluefred

2014/12/03

A pile of DragonFly commits

In an effort to reduce my backlog of DragonFly things to post about, here’s quick notes:

The path to xauth is now configurable, though correct by default. (that’s bit me in the past)
There’s a new callout*() implementation.
cpuctl(4) has been imported to allow CPU microcode updates.
libm has been updated with math functions from FreeBSD and NetBSD, which because of library versioning support, won’t cause compatibility problems for older vs. newer DragonFly versions.
C++11 support is also now available.

2014/12/02

svc(8), service manager for DragonFly

I’m running behind so this is a bit old, but: Matthew Dillon commited svc(8), a service manager program. Take a look at its man page to see the potential uses.

2014/11/262014/11/26

XHCI and installing DragonFly

With a recent commit from Sascha Wildner, DragonFly now loads XHCI (meaning USB3) by default. If you had previously tried to install DragonFly via USB stick, and it inexplicably refused to mou t the installer drive… It may work much better now.

2014/11/24

Several DragonFly updates

I’m working on the 4.0 release, but in the meantime, I wanted to point at a slew of updates from Sascha Wildner: ACPICA 20141107, pciconf(8), axge(4), and the kernel part of the netgraph7 Bluetooth stack.

2014/11/10

reapctl() added to DragonFly

Matthew Dillon’s added the reapctl() call, which gives a process control over all sub-processes, even when detached. This is initally useful for bulk builds of dports, but can probably be extended farther…

2014/11/03

Chrome on DragonFly

Chrome runs on DragonFly now, apparently possible now because of this ported fix from Joris Giovannangeli.

2014/10/292014/10/28

DragonFly DRM1 drivers dropped

As Francois Tigeot has pointed out, recent Mesa upgrades have made very old graphics drivers using DRM1 no longer work. They’ve been removed. This won’t affect you unless your graphics card is 10+ years old.

2014/10/172014/10/17

/dev/upmap and /dev/kpmap added

Matthew Dillon has added /dev/upmap and /dev/kpmap to DragonFly in two commits. (er, three.) It’s an optimization of some sort, and it is unfortunately over my head. Please, someone comment in a way that fills it in. I’m tired.