• 2021FoundationCFI

FreeBSD Foundation-supported projects: call for ideas, November 2021

Calls

FreeBSD hackers (2021-11-23)

• announcement of summary (2021-12-09)

FreeBSD Forums

• announcement of summary

Summary of ideas

Configuration

Automated tool to configure a working Xorg setup on most common hardware

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000402.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000411.html

More programmable/scriptable configs

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000409.html

Containers, including jails

Application container framework like Linux OCI

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

Automatic jailing of services and applications

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000440.html

FUSE for unprivileged users in jail

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

Complete Firefox Capsicum support / firejail for FreeBSD

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544651 ▶ Mozilla bug 1607980 - Implement sandboxing on FreeBSD with Capsicum

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544792

Jail configuration improvements

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544153

Jail creation and usage as non-root

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000409.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000450.html

Jail orchestration in base

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000421.html

Monitoring jails from outside using bsnmpd

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000613.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000615.html

OCI-compatible creation of jails

• transport
• kubernetes, maybe docker

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000526.html

Debugging

DTrace buffer panic survival and a way to recover whatever is left from ddb/core dumps for post-mortem analysis

• E.g. memory modified after free debugging, other changes leading to a panic in drivers. There is no way to actually track the last <n> > frees anymore to figure out where the memory was freed (and hence possibly used after); DTrace would be a fantastic tool to just do that … if we'd get everything up-to until the panic out of the buffer. Obviously the other bit is to ensure the file streamed to is recoverable. Not sure what happened to a "network DTrace".

Documentation

ARM/ARM64 devices

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

bhyve and ipfw

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000449.html

iflib(4) network interface driver framework

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

File systems

Data sharing, without full population of the file system

• the jail overlays the base file system via null mounts

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000459.html

exFAT and F2FS native

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

XFS native

• GPL issues

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544139

unionfs issues

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000638.html

Graphics

AMD: GPU programming support / (ROCm)

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544338

ARM: Panfrost/Lima support for Mali GPU

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543657

CUDA framework support

• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/84926/

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-February/002963.html

NVIDIA: nouveau

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000412.html

• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/83180/ | https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543657

Hardware

CPU/RAM hotplug support

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000408.html

ECC memory status and reporting: support Ryzen and all other capable processors

• akin to Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) in Linux

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

NUMA support

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000565.html

Odroid boards: better support

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544870

Networking

802.11ac support (including AP)

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000397.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000398.html

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543636

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545327

Better traffic shaper

• replacement for dummynet / altq
• Multiqueue NIC supported and multi-threaded traffic shaper

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000538.html

Bluetooth

• ease of use, a GUI for example

• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/24179/ (2011-06-01)

• https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=970 (2018-01-03)

• https://github.com/helloSystem/Utilities/issues/113 (2021-01-11)

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/547339 (2021-12-19)

DHCPv6 client

Dynamic routing

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000420.html

HAST improvements

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

IP Balancing From OpenBSD's Carp

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545795

ipfw: filter icmp not only on icmptype but also on icmpcode

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

libfetch: http/2 support

• Some upstreams are requiring http/2, which breaks fetching for package building

IEEE 802.1AE - MACsec support

• Implementing IEEE 802.1AE - MAC security interface support. Linux kernel has this implementation

MPLS support

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-net/2021-November/000977.html

MPTCP support

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000408.html

pf: logging on state close / expire.

• pf, generate logs only on first packet. For a good logging, state id, state closed/expired timestamp, state hits, state bytes and state closing reason is also needed.

pf: matching and logging receive interface and xmit interface in single rule

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000627.html

pf: SCTP support

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000539.html

Raspberry Pi 400 Wi-Fi

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543609

routing: Metric support for routing

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000691.html

routing: Source address selection option for destination route

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000691.html

Support for 'any' network interface such as: tcpdump -ni 'any'

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000540.html

Wireless mesh support

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

Packaging, ports, poudriere

Distributed Poudriere

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000422.html

PkgBase

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544801

Ports CI

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000409.html

Poudriere package seeding

• done

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000424.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000437.html

Virtualization

bhyve: GVT-g support

bhyve: suspend/resume

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

bhyve: virtio-fs support

• or p9 host side, or other ways to simply shared parts of the host file system with guests

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000577.html

bhyve/arm64

• on Andy's list

qemu bsd-user upstreaming

qemu hardware acceleration

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543641

Other

.NET (dotnet) support

100% llvm toolchain for base and ports

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

ARM "CPU cluster" support

• both big.LITTLE awareness and support for running at different clockspeeds

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

Benchmarking

• in-house improvements

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000629.html

Boot loader problems

• pxeboot / lua / amd64|arm64 EFI hangs …

Calamares installer

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544338

Cameras and microphones

• improve selection where multiple devices are attached

FreeBSD golang runtime: squash bugs

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000527.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000528.html

freebsd-update improvements

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000552.html

ggate: encrypted connection

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

Lenovo: regression with P-states and U series processors

• 253288 – hwpstate_intel: modern ThinkPads wedge under any kind of load or during boot

• 248659 – Specific intel chips lock up with P-states active

NanoBSD improvements

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545548

NFS inside VNET jails

PCIe pass-through

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544862

Pulse-code modulation (PCM)/sound: play nice with dynamically appearing and disappearing audio device

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000455.html

Raspberry Pi 400 sound over HDMI

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543609

rc.subr: support for cpuset

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000440.html

Sensors

• support for sensors in common hardware monitoring chips on consumer hardware (temperature, voltage, fan speed, etc)
• unified support for various available sensors (CPU temperature etc)

smbfs in base: support SMBv2 and SMBv3

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000405.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000521.html

SMP awareness for base tools

Suspend to disk (hibernation)

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000395.html

sysutils/lsof fixes

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000436.html

• https://github.com/lsof-org/lsof/pull/184 (2021-12-18) ◀ Improvements to sysutils/lsof

Thunderbolt / newer USB support

• also to remove troubles with other USB interactions on laptops
• Scott Long has WIP?

• https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543636

Tor Browser bundle

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

ULE scheduler improvements

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000558.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000569.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000570.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000571.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000573.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000585.html

• https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2023-March/001938.html