svn commit: r46176 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jan 9 23:41:22 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan  9 23:41:20 2015
New Revision: 46176
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46176

Log:
  Add Xen report
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, blanket)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml	Fri Jan  9 22:10:32 2015	(r46175)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml	Fri Jan  9 23:41:20 2015	(r46176)
@@ -1207,4 +1207,72 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>FreeBSD Xen</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Roger</given>
+	  <common>Pau Monné</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>royger at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Justin T.</given>
+	  <common>Gibbs</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>gibbs at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_PVH">FreeBSD PVH DomU wiki page</url>
+      <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0">FreeBSD PVH Dom0 wiki page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>During this quarter almost all pending Xen changes have been
+	committed, enabling the usage of FreeBSD as Dom0 under the new
+	PVH mode. The set of features supported by FreeBSD is still limited,
+	but it should allow for basic usage of FreeBSD as Dom0. Support for
+	booting Xen from the FreeBSD boot loader will be committed very soon
+	to HEAD.</p>
+
+      <p>Apart from testing on a variety of hardware, work has now
+	shifted to improve PVH support in Xen itself in order to have feature
+	parity with a traditional PV Dom0 and to declare the PVH ABI as
+	stable.</p>
+
+      <p>Regarding guest improvements (running FreeBSD as a DomU),
+	there's also ongoing work to add unmapped IO support to Xen blkfront,
+	which is blocked pending some modifications to the generic bounce
+	buffer code.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>Citrix Systems R&D</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>Spectra Logic Corporation</sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Test on different hardware.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Improve backends (netback, blkback) performance.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Work with upstream Xen to improve PVH and make it stable.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Improve generic bounce buffer code for unmapped bios in order
+	  to support blkfront alignment requirements.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
