svn commit: r46188 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jan 11 16:05:23 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Jan 11 16:05:22 2015
New Revision: 46188
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46188

Log:
  Add arm64 entry
  
  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	Sat Jan 10 02:41:36 2015	(r46187)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml	Sun Jan 11 16:05:22 2015	(r46188)
@@ -2159,4 +2159,98 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>FreeBSD/arm64</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Andrew</given>
+	  <common>Turner</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>andrew at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emaste at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Zbigniew</given>
+	  <common>Bodek</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>zbb at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64" />
+      <url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/freebsd/tree/arm64-dev" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>There is growing interest in ARM's 64-bit architecture.
+	Officially named as AArch64, it is also known as ARMv8 and arm64.
+	Andrew Turner started initial work on the FreeBSD/arm64 port at
+	the end of 2012.</p>
+
+      <p>The &os; Foundation is now collaborating with ARM,
+	Cavium, the Semihalf team, and Andrew Turner to port &os; to
+	arm64, and significant progress was made on the port over the last
+	quarter of 2014.</p>
+
+      <p>As of the end of the year &os; boots to single-user mode
+	on arm64, executing both static and dynamic applications. Patches
+	in review allow &os; to boot to multi-user mode and these are
+	expected to be merged soon. This includes implementing many stub
+	functions in userland and the kernel. With this, &os; has booted to
+	multi-user mode on both the ARM Foundation Model and the QEMU full
+	system emulation.</p>
+
+      <p>Cavium has supplied a software simulator of their Thunder X
+	hardware. Bringup of &os; has started on this including writing
+	new drivers for the ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v3 (GICv3)
+	and a preliminary driver for the PCIe root complex. With these,
+	&os; is able to boot on this simulator in preparation for
+	testing on hardware. Further work is progressing to add full PCIe
+	bringup and to add support for the GICv3 Interrupt Translation
+	Services (ITS) for MSI-X.</p>
+
+      <p>Further improvements have been made to the loader to allow
+	it to take the Flattened Device Tree data from UEFI and pass it to
+	the kernel. In the kernel busdma, CPU identification, and
+	improvements to interrupt handling have been made, along with
+	preliminary KDB support.</p>
+
+      <p>Hardware for testing the port will be installed in the
+	&os; Test Cluster hosted by Sentex Communications. The first
+	reference platform, Cavium's ThunderX, is expected to arrive
+	in the cluster in mid-January.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>ARM</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>Cavium</sponsor>
+
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Bring up and test kernel support on real hardware.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Implement remaining userland libraries and binaries.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Produce installable images.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
