Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:53:47 +0100
Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A few projects that I think would be beneficial
> 
> * Native exFAT and F2FS support, I think someone (with a FreeBSD hat) 
> already expressed interest in adding exFAT support to FreeBSD 14

At least exFAT support would need to be on ports even when implememted
as non-fuse filesystem, as of patent issue, unless MS grants unlimited
right to publish.


> * Better documentation for the iflib network driver framework
> * ARM "CPU cluster" support, both big.LITTLE awareness and support for 
> running at different clockspeeds
>    I'm not sure if there could be some generic framework as we're 
> starting to see this on x86 too (Intel 12th Gen)

Implementation of NUMA support could be a good start point.
From resource management view, it would be non-uniform process (or 
processor, instead) allocation. Just an idea, though.


> * Better documentation for ARM/ARM64 devices, it's even hard for devs to 
> figure out how to get boards booting despite being supported like the 
> Macchiato/Espressobin or how to "convert" existing images to other 
> supported boards which do not have a separate image.
>    Right now most information is scattered on the wiki and mailinglist 
> and it's hard to find the most recent information.
> * Support Ryzen ECC memory status and reporting (what Linux refers to as 
> EDAC)
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 


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