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FreeBSD 10.0

This page was initially started at BSDCan DevSummit/201105 10.0 Discussion, 2011-05-12 marked with (B11 for BSDCan 2011). The discussion marked E11 (EuroBSDCon 2011) took place 2011-10-07 during DevSummit/201110. Additions from the BSDCan 2012 DevSummit/201205 are marked B12.

The previous brainstorming for FreeBSD 9.0 is at FreeBSD9.

Items

• JohnBaldwin's slides go here not duplicated into the items below. (B11)

Network stack stuff

• input Q + ifnet (gnn, rwatson) (B11)
• switch + PHY + management (not always through the NIC (driver)) (B11)
• IPS in non-network looks like the net code? (B11)

Device Drivers

• hot plug PCI (imp) (B11)

• PCI AER (NetApp) (B11)

• multipass for resource mgmt (jhb, Juniper) (B11)
• hw.acpi.power_blah (if not in 9.x) (B11)
• IOKit power down (B11)
• NetFPGA 1G (wkoszek) (E11)
• NetFPGA 10G (Cambridge) (E11)

• SolarFlare 10G (philip) (E11)

• Broadcom Wireless Drivers (iX) (E11)
• BusDMA (marcel) (E11)
• Parallel device probe (jhb) (E11)
• Unmapped I/O (E11)
• AMD/ATI graphics (E11)
• Thunderbolt (E11)
• QLogic 10G (bz/gnn) (E11)
• CAM Target Layer (CTL) (ken) (E11)
• Merge in-tree and manufacturer's mps and mfi drivers (E11)
• We need an mpsutil utility, like mfiutil (E11)
• Loader/kernel/etc automated device driver loader (E11)
• FDT for MIPS (jc) (E11)
• Maybe FDT for Intel (useful for passing config info into BHyVe?) (E11)
• Xilinx/Altera IP cores (Cambridge) (E11)
• Xen PV device drivers in GENERIC (gibbs) (E11)
• Cache/save device probe (marcel) (E11)
• Improvements to USB3 on non-Intel (hps) (E11)
• 802.11n improvements (adrian) (E11)
• Concurrent and deterministic kernel boot (E11)

• ARMv7 (SemiHalf) (E11)

• Crypto hardware drivers for Marvell etc (E11)

Virtualization

• NetBSD dom0 (sean) (B11)
• Xen i386 PV (mlaier) (B11)

• BhyVe legacy device (peter) (B11), non-x86 (marcel) (B11)

• Live migration? (B11)
• Xen Dom0 (gibbs) (E11)
• Xen DomU amd64 (gibbs) (E11)
• Xen PV SMP (gibbs) (E11)
• Xen PV i386 cleanups (gibbs) (E11)
• Xen USB PV drivers (hps?) (E11)

• Xen NetBack driver (gibbs) (E11)

• Xen PCIback driver (gibbs) (E11)
• Xen SCSI passthrough (?) (E11)
• Xen VFS passthrough (gibbs) (E11)
• Xen on MIPS (marcel) (E11)
• Xen on ARM (marcel) (E11)
• Xen on PowerPC (Marcel) (E11)
• VirtIO drivers (greham) (E11)
• VIMAGE merging (bz) (E11)
• Jail management (jamie) (E11)
• VM images produced by re@ (E11)
• bsdinstall direct to VMs (E11)

• Jail <--> BHyVe migration (E11)

• BHyVe on AMD (NetApp) (E11)

• BHyVe auto-start and management (E11)
• Don't do memory test in VM (E11)

• Also see VirtualizationTODO

Filesystem

• Live filesystem resizing (jpaetzel) (E11)
• NAND FS (raj) (B11, E11)
• GEOM live resizing, events from below (pjd) (B11, E11)
• High IOPS GEOM work (imp/julien) (E11)
• More ZFS parallelization (delphij) (E11)
• Fix tmpfs to be production ready (marcel) (E11)
• No non-MPSAFE FS (atillio) (B11, E11)

  • SMBFS, HPFS, MWFS, NTFS, CODAFS, XFS, ReiserFS

  • Sync SMBFS with OSX (jpaetzel) (E11)
• Range locking VFS (attilio, kib) (B11)
• PAGs for AFS + NFS (per-GSS credentials) - suggested by rwatson (E11)
• unionfs stress testing (marcel) (E11)
• unionfs scalability (daichi) (E11)
• VFS simplification (E11)
• Integrate FUSEFS/PUFFS or similar functionality (E11)
• More stable VFS KPI/KBI (E11)
• HAST memsync + async (pjd) (E11)
  • direct reads
  • multiple secondary nodes
  • multi-master? (unlikely for 10)
  • capsicum sandboxing
• 64-bit inodes (gleb) (E11)
• VFS async VOPs (E11)

Embedded

• Environmental and fault monitoring framework (E11)
• Static OpenPAM ("MiniPAM") (des) (E11)
• Userland for embedded systems (busybox-style thing?) (E11)

Other Kernel I+II

• per thread credentials (mdf) (B11)
• Transactional NFS export updates (rick) (B11)
• CAM multipath awareness and spring cleaning (gibbs) (E11)
• UEFI bootloader (gibbs) (E11)

rwatson specials

• more unified philosophy for affinity and scheduling, in particular, allowing data flow feedback to the scheduler (julian) (B11)
• various audit improvements: per-jail, per-application, nfs server; we have gsoc patches but they need upstreaming (sson) (B11)

• convince someone to open source their TE and put it into sys/security/mac, but no complex reference policy unlike selinux (mikek) (B11)

• capsicum all over the place (rwatson, jonathan, sson, pjd, benl) (B11)
• TESLA use all over the place (B11)

Desktop

• Desktop installation standars for apps (kmoore) (E11)
• Uber-audio daemon (hps) (E11)
• Suspend/Resume (E11)
• Linux INOTIFY emulation for Skype etc (E11)
• 64-bit Linux (E11)
• Boot messages (E11)
  • all information somewhere useful (marcel) (E11)
  • Less noisy (marcel) (E11)
• Animated boot splash + feedback (marcel) (E11)
• Structured input/output during boot (e.g. for GELI password entry) (E11)

Ports + Packages

• Make ports work on 10.x (autotools stuff) (erwin) (E11)
• Options framework (bapt) (E11)
• pkgng (bapt) (E11)

• Package sets (erwin -> ?) (E11)

• Signed packages/sets (bapt/so) (E11)
• Xorg updates (kwm) (E11)
• bmake support (marcel) (E11)
• Switchable compilers and toolchains (linimon) (E11)
• Ports crossbuild / Qemu (stas) (E11)
• Build ports in parallel (E11)
• Package staging (bapt) (E11)
• Separate build vs install (bapt) (E11)

• one port --> multiple packages (bapt) (E11)

• Execution-free install (jonathan) (E11)
• Sandboxing package-flavoured things, e.g. build in a sandbox so random code can't touch FS (jonathan) (E11)
• make update post pkgng (bapt) (E11)

FreeBSD Project infrastructure

• Pointyhat-east (portmgr) (E11)
• Pointyhat-west (portmgr) (E11)
• Move portsmon (portmgr) (E11)
• CDN (admins) (E11)
• Subversion mirrors (admins) (E11)

• Moving ports --> subversion (portmgr) (E11)

• Proper release signing + verification (E11)

• Doc tree --> Subversion (doceng) (E11)

• git.freebsd.org (E11)
• SSL certs on wiki, etc (E11)
• svn2p4 (gordon/gibbs) (E11)
• Mailing list archives fixed (E11)

• NetPerf cluster new devices: SF, NetFPGA, QLogic (gnn) (E11)

• Continuous integration tinderbox - running regression tests (dwhite) (E11)
• ATF (test framework) (gibbs) (E11)
• Coverity/clang emails when new errors found (E11)

Others

• Fix cc -m32 (obrien) (B11)
• Large core dumps (mdf) (B11)
• Build changes (marcel) (B11)
• socket filters (silby) (B11)
• ixgbe virt. iface(s) (ryan) (B11)
• Concurrent and deterministic rc.d boot (E11)

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