DragonFly BSD Digest

Matthew Dillon’s started work on the new namespace/lookup API – he lists this as “step 5/99”.

Hidetoshi Shimokawa apparently has commit access for DragonFly and has been adding various parts of FireWire support.

Joerg Sonnenberger has added a new timer method, for those who are seeing the “high-speed clock” problem:

“Add a new option “TIMER_USE_1″, which allows switching the primary heartbeat from i8254 timer 2 to timer 1. This also reactivates the console beep if TIMER_USE_1 is active.”

It’s “OPTIONS TIMER_USE_1” in your kernel config, if you want to build a kernel that uses this.

Eirik Nygaard has added KTR, for logging kernel events, to aid debugging.

Joerg Sonnenberger announced the commit of PF to DragonFly. Credit is due to, well, a whole slew of people that did this. ALTQ and CARP are not yet supported, to my knowledge.

Matthew Dillon has committed BSD-licensed versions of bc and dc, ported from OpenBSD by Sascha Wildner.

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has brought in BIND 9.2.4rc7.

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated apr with some security fixes.

Matt Dillon and Joerg Sonnenberger have been making about a zillion commits over the last while; cleaning up the old callout_* implementation. It’s been split into so many commits so that folks from other systems can easily import them.