Matthew Dillon commited the start of MBUF/cluster accounting, plus some LWKT changes to accomodate NDIS.
There’s been over 50 commits made in the past two days, including such things as nvidia-driver improvements from Emiel Kollof, a pkill import from Chris Pressey, and wicontrol updates from Joerg Sonennberger.
Matthew Dillon’s made a number of improvements to the booter code, so (re)installing a master boot record may help those having trouble with the basic boot system.
Hiten Pandya’s updated IPFilter to version 3.4.35
Joerg Sonnenberger has committed the initial framework for 802.11 support. This means better support for those of us running wireless is coming soon, especially those with atheros-based cards.
The userland scheduling patch I referred to earlier is now in the system. This is a good reason to upgrade/rebuild, because of the positive effect of system response.
Some people have reported timing problems with DragonFly – time speeds up depending on load. (Insert OS joke here.) Matthew Dillon’s added the hw.i8254 sysctl for checking current values. He’s also made it possible to boot the Live CD for those with SCSI hard drives.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has committed support for a number of different Firewire and USB chipsets. Check the commits list for info.
Hiten Pandya commited YONETANI Tomokazu’s changes that make the very essential tool portupgrade deal with ports that have DragonFly-specific overrides.
The Installer has been made part of the base system. Congratulations are due to the Installer Team (Chris Pressey, Devon O’Dell, Eirik Nygaard, Hiten Pandya & Scott Ullrich), who managed in a few months to crank out a program better than any other non-commercial BSD installer. And there’s more to come!
Matt Dillon committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s patches bringing in build 20040527 of Intel’s ACPICA. Also, some ACPI tools.
Mat Dillon has committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s extensive ACPI changes.
Matt Dillon has enabled the SIO FIFO (1655x) (don’t ask me what that is…) to reduce latency when that little spinning / | \ – bar thing runs during inital boot.
I note this just so I can say: “DragonFly – we even twiddle fast.”
Hiten Pandya and Matt Dillon have put together a debug script area for the kernel. Pasted here is Hiten’s commit message.
Continue reading “Debug directory”
I’ve committed the initial “port” of the FreeBSD Handbook into the doc repository. It’s not yet built into the site, but you can see a test version at http://forknibbler.com/guide/. Anyone who wants to add/rewrite a section is strongly encouraged – send it to the submit ‘at’ dragonflybsd.org mailing list.
David Rhodus has removed GCC 3.3 from the tree, since GCC 3.4 is in. ‘make upgrade‘ during upgrade will clean it out.
PFIL_HOOKS is now on by default, so it can be removed from kernel configuration files. It’s not in by default normally, so if it’s unfamiliar, ignore it.
Matt Dillon committed code that makes DragonFly computers boot in dual mode – i.e. both the serial console and the video console are active. Use -h at boot to get just serial, and -V to get just video.
Thanks to Chris Pressey, Tim Wickberg, and William DeVries, the Perl script kbdmap has been replaced with a C equivalent, and adduser/rmuser, also formerly Perl, has been replaced with Bourne shell scripts. These all came from FreeBSD-5.