FreeBSD Wiki

Welcome to the FreeBSD Wiki!

This is a wiki mainly for FreeBSD developers - more general information (including information about the ACL's and new user information) can be found at the AboutWiki page.

Note: The built in documentation is currently broken. Please see the official moinmoin wiki for documentation, e.g. http://moinmo.in/HelpOnEditing.

Top Current Links (Start Here)

• Ideas page - how to contribute to FreeBSD

• Subversion primer

• How to get Wiki write access granted (and more general information)

• Pkg (pkgng) primer

• What's new for FreeBSD 10

• What's new for FreeBSD 11

• FreeBSD-Themed templates for writing talk presentations

Platforms

• amd64

• ARM

• arm64

• i386

• ia64

• MIPS

• AVR32

• PowerPC

• sparc64

• sun4v

• Xen

• Wii

External Contribution Projects

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC): 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

• Google Code-In: 2012, 2011

Projects

Describe your work-in-progress and/or blue-sky ideas here. You might find out that your blue-sky idea is someone's WIP, or vice versa. Perhaps this can lead to less of the 'if you check that in, it will mess up my local changes' problem.

• AppleMacbook

• AsusEee

• BenchmarkMatrix

• Buffer cache renovation project

• CoverityPrevent (restricted access only to people with access to Coverity Prevent itself)

• CScout

• DesktopIntegration

• DNS resolver in base

• ElfToolChain

• External toolchain support - building FreeBSD using a more up to date clang/LLVM compiler

• Flattened Device Tree support

• FreeBSD10

• FreeBSD Mirrors Spring cleanup

• Graphics support for the boot loader

• Graphical environment on FreeBSD (Information and status of Xorg, graphical kernel drivers and related)

• Hamradio On FreeBSD

• HDTV

• Home Theater PC

• Improving the Linux compatibility layer

• Jenkins - Continuous Integration of FreeBSD

• K

• Kload

• Laptops (collective effort to share and improve experience with FreeBSD running on various laptops)

• LibElf

• LibXo - A Library for Generating Text, XML, JSON, and HTML Output

• LLDB debugger

• multimedia

• NetworkPerformanceTuning (TUNABLEs and sysctls that need better documentation or better auto-tuning)

• NetworkRSS - Network Receive (and Transmit) Side Scaling

• NEW_PCIB

• NouveauPorting

• Numerics (status of math functions)

• PCI Hotplug

• Performance (Netperf, PmcTools, MySQL, General purpose tweaks, ...)

• PerformanceTracker

• SMPTODO (List of remaining Giant-locked kernel code)

• SuspendResume

• TetIntegration

• The FreeBSD sound system

• TestSuite

• Transactions

• TrustedBSD / TrustedBSD Project

• TTYRedesign

• UEFI

• UnifiedBusDma

• VendorInformation

• VirtualBox

• VTune

• WebcamCompat

• WiFi - undergoing active development

Base System

• ATA subsystem

• ContribSoftware

• Debugging

• DeviceDrivers

• DriDrivers

• GEOM

• KGI

• Randomness

• ThreadLocalStorage

• USB

• Basic VFS Concepts

File systems

• Ext2fs

• GlusterFS

• NANDFS

• TMPFS

• ZFS

Networking

• Networking

• NetworkVirtualization

• HOWTO implement WakeOnLan in NIC drivers

• Open IPv6 tasks

• Jails - also see vImage

• 802.11 stack and support

• 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networking

• libnetstat(3)

• 10G Compatibility and Tuning

Kernel

• ARM superpages support

Peripherals

• Printers

Text-processing Tools and I18N

The two categories are often related, so put them here together.

• Unicode support in syscons

• Regex implementation in libc

• BSD-licensed iconv

• BSD-licensed grep

HOWTOs

• AFS_using_OpenAFS_+_Arla

• BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

• TuningPowerConsumption

• BecomingACommitter

• Details on implementations of IPMI things

• VMWareBootupSpeed

• HP ProLiant BIOS problem with 3TB+ disks

Documentation Project

• DocSprints

• DocIdeaList

• IdeasWebApp

• BloggingCharter

• MissingManpages

• MarketingDocs

• PublishedFormats

• Using FreeBSD for linux-cross-development

• StimulatingJava

• AppserverJailsHOWTO

• SecureSSMTP

• DocTranslationProjects

• FAQ Renewal Proposal

• Various information on DTrace on FreeBSD

• How to produce high quality videos of BSD Conferences and publish on YouTube and FTP

Ports

• PortsTasks (recompilation)

• PortsAndClang

Ports collection

• Apache

• Haskell

• Meta-ports

  • Gnome

  • KDE4

• Mono

• MySQL

• MythTV on FreeBSD

• Samba

• VDR on FreeBSD

• Wine

Porters resources

• AvoidingLinuxisms

• FreeBSDPackageBuildingComparison

• PortersHandbook

• Ports Management Team (portmgr) agenda/todolist

• portsmon

• PortsNewDistfileChecker

• PortsTinderboxes

• portupgrade

• When did that port break?

• XPI, NPAPI, and Linkfarming

Ports system

• NewPortsCategories

• pkgng

• PackageManagerRosettaStone

• PracticalGuideToRedports

Ports notes/tasks/requests

• DistfilesSize

• MaintainerNotes

• PackageCategoriesOnOtherSystems

• PackageSetSizes

• PackageSystemsComparison

• PackageSystemsFeatureComparison

• PackageSystemsMerging

• PortsBrokenBySrcChanges

• PortsFailingOnCurrent

• PortsFailingInJails

• PortsBrokenOnTier2Architectures

• PortsFailingOnPointyhat

• PortsFailingOnPointyhatWest

• PortsLongtermTargets

• DocLongtermTargets things doc wants to do

• PortsNotUpgraded

• PortsOnTier2Architectures

• PortsTeams

• X11 roadmap (including information about help needed)

• X11 TODO

• Trybroken

• WantedPorts

Development Resources

Source Code Control

• AncientVcsTidbits

• Git overview

• Using git for FreeBSD development

• HgMigration

• Subversion primer (this is the canonical document for FreeBSD src committers)

• VersionControl (obsoleted by subsequent events)

Other Development Resources

• Doxygen generated view of some kernel subsystems: generated nightly (UTC) from HEAD

• Tinderbox -- a description of the tinderbox scripts used for FreeBSD src

• Various utilities useful in a daily developer's practice

Bug Handling

• General discussion of bugbusting on FreeBSD

• AssigningPRs

• Bugathons

• Bugbusting resources

• volunteer signup sheet

• Alternative Bugtracking systems that we might consider

Overall System

• CallsForTesting

• CallsForVolunteers

• QA-Checklist

• Todo-List

Facetime

• Conferences

• DevSummit

Miscellaneous

• Colo Hardware Donation Checklist

• MentorMatch

• MissingMathStuff

• StaleWikiPages

Other Resources

• IrcChannels / IrcNicks

• WaitChannels

• The network performance test cluster: NetperfClusterPointers, NetperfClusterReservations