FreeBSD Wiki

Welcome to the FreeBSD Wiki!

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

Popular Pages

• Contributing to FreeBSD: Ideas Page

• Subversion Primer

• How to get a Wiki account and write access

• Packages (pkg, pkgng) Primer

• What's New in FreeBSD 10

• What's New in FreeBSD 11

• What's New in FreeBSD 12

• FreeBSD-Themed templates for writing talk presentations

Platforms

• amd64

• ARM

• arm64

• AVR32

• i386

• MIPS

• PowerPC including powerpc64

• RISC-V

• sparc64

• sun4v

• Xen

• Wii

External Contribution Projects

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

• Google Code-In

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

• Automatic Loading of kernel modules based only on device "plug and play" info.

• BenchmarkMatrix

• Buffer Cache Renovation

• CodeReview

• Coverity Prevent Source Code Analysis

• 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

• 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

• Hyperledger Sawtooth On FreeBSD

• Improving the Linux compatibility layer

• Interface ifnet(9) KPI

• Jenkins - Continuous Integration of FreeBSD

• K

• Kload

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

• LibElf

• LibreSSL - Use LibreSSL as libcrypto/libssl provider in ports and base

• 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

• Numerics (status of math functions)

• PCI Hotplug

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

• PerformanceTracker

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

• SuspendResume

• The FreeBSD sound system

• Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)

• SrcDeDup

• TestSuite

• Transactions

• TrustedBSD / TrustedBSD Project

• UEFI

• UnifiedBusDma

• VirtualBox

• VTune

• WebcamCompat

• WiFi - undergoing active development

• xDMA - DMA abstraction layer

Base System

• ATA subsystem

• BuildSystems

• ContribSoftware

• Debugging

• DeviceDrivers

• DriDrivers

• GEOM

• KGI

• ThreadLocalStorage

• USB

• Basic VFS Concepts

File systems

• Ext2fs

• GlusterFS

• NANDFS

• TMPFS

• ZFS

Networking

• Networking

• 10G Compatibility and Tuning

• HOWTO implement WakeOnLan in NIC drivers

• Open IPv6 tasks

• Jails - also see VIMAGE

• libnetstat(3)

• Virtualized Networking

• Transport Protocols

• 802.11 stack and support

• 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networking

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

• BecomingACommitter

• BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

• HP ProLiant BIOS problem with 3TB+ disks

• KerberizedNFS

• MachineSpecificTips

• TuningPowerConsumption

• VMWareBootupSpeed

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

  • KDE

• 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

• Problems with linking against libgcc_s

Ports system

• NewPortsCategories

• pkgng

• PackageManagerRosettaStone

Ports notes/tasks/requests

• DistfilesSize

• MaintainerNotes

• portmgr/PackageBuildingWishlist

• PackageCategoriesOnOtherSystems

• PackageSetSizes

• PackageSystemsComparison

• PackageSystemsFeatureComparison

• PackageSystemsMerging

• Ports/LongtermTargets

• DocLongtermTargets things doc wants to do

• Ports/Teams

• X11 roadmap (including information about help needed)

• X11 TODO

• WantedPorts

Development Resources

Source Code Control

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

• Git overview

• Using git for FreeBSD development

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

Facetime

• Conferences

• DevSummit

Miscellaneous

• Colo Hardware Donation Checklist

• MentorMatch

• MissingWikiPages

• StaleWikiPages

• HistoricalWikiPages

Other Resources

• IRC Channels and IRC Nicknames

• WaitChannels

• The network performance test cluster: NetperfClusterPointers, NetperfClusterReservations