svn commit: r44439 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Apr 4 12:48:04 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Fri Apr  4 12:48:03 2014
New Revision: 44439
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44439

Log:
  - Add 2014Q1 status report on FreeBSD/arm64
  
  Submitted by:	andrew

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Fri Apr  4 12:32:55 2014	(r44438)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Fri Apr  4 12:48:03 2014	(r44439)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 11 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
       June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
   </category>
 
   <category>
+    <name>arch</name>
+
+    <description>Architectures</description>
+  </category>
+
+  <category>
     <name>bin</name>
 
     <description>Userland Programs</description>
@@ -621,4 +627,54 @@
 	driver support to libvirt.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>&os;/arm64</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Andrew</given>
+	  <common>Turner</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>andrew at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/arm64/">Project branch in the Subversion repository</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/zxombie/aarch64-freebsd-sandbox">GitHub repository</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Arm64 is the name of the in-progress port of &os; to the ARMv8
+	CPU when it is in AArch64 mode.  Until recently, all ARM CPU
+	designs were 32-bit only.  With the introduction of the ARMv8,
+	architecture ARM has added a new 64-bit mode.  This new mode has
+	been named AArch64.</p>
+
+      <p>Progress has been good on getting &os; to build and run on the
+	ARM Foundation model.  &os; is able to be built for this
+	architecture, however it requires a number of external tools
+	including <tt>objdump(1)</tt> and <tt>ld(1)</tt>.  These tools
+	are provided by an external copy of binutils until replacements
+	can be written.</p>
+
+      <p>&os; will run the early boot on the Foundation model.  The
+	loader has been ported to the AArch64 UEFI environment and can
+	load and run the kernel.  The kernel is able to create the
+	initial page tables to be able to run from virtual memory.  It
+	can then execute C code to parse the memory map provided by the
+	loader.  This is as far as the kernel currently boots.</p>
+
+      <p>This work is now happening in the &os; Subversion repository in
+	a project branch, see the links.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Implement an initial <tt>pmap(9)</tt> layer.</task>
+      <task>Write the missing machine-dependent code.</task>
+      <task>Test on real hardware.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
