svn commit: r42205 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Gabor Pali
pgj at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 UTC 2013
Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 2013
New Revision: 42205
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42205
Log:
- Further improvements and fixes, suggested by theraven
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:11:14 2013 (r42204)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 2013 (r42205)
@@ -173,12 +173,15 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>A VT-d driver was developed that implements the
- <tt>busdma(9)</tt> interface using the DMA Remap units (DMARs)
- found in current Intel chipsets. The driver provides
- reliability and security improvements for the system by
- facilitating restricted access to main memory from busmastering
- devices.</p>
+ <p>Intel VT-d is a set of extensions that were originally designed
+ to allow virtualizing devices. It allows safe access to physical
+ devices from virtual machines and can also be used for better
+ isolation and performance increases. A VT-d driver was
+ developed that implements the <tt>busdma(9)</tt> interface using
+ the DMA Remap units (DMARs) found in current Intel chipsets.
+ The driver provides reliability and security improvements for
+ the system by facilitating restricted access to main memory from
+ busmastering devices.</p>
<p>It also eliminates bounce buffering (copying) by allocating
remapped regions that satisfy a device's access limitations.</p>
@@ -187,7 +190,7 @@
driver will also provide PCI pass-through functionality for
hypervisors.</p>
- <p>This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p>
+ <p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -240,7 +243,7 @@
<p>Testing on diverse workloads and on real multi-socket machines
is required.</p>
- <p>This project is sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p>
+ <p>This project is sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -251,7 +254,7 @@
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
- <title>HAST Module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt></title>
+ <title><tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> Support in <tt>hastd(8)</tt></title>
<contact>
<person>
@@ -266,9 +269,11 @@
<links/>
<body>
- <p>HAST module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> has been committed to
- -CURRENT and merged to 8.x and 9.x -STABLE branches. The module
- allows to monitor and manage HAST via the SNMP protocol.</p>
+ <p>A <tt>hastd(8)</tt> module for <tt>bsnmpd(1)</tt> has been
+ committed to &os; <tt>head</tt> and merged to <tt>stable/8</tt>
+ and <tt>stable/9</tt> branches recently. This module makes it
+ possible to monitor and manage <tt>hastd(8)</tt> via the SNMP
+ protocol.</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -356,7 +361,7 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>The KDE/&os; Team have continued to improve the experience of
+ <p>The KDE/&os; Team has continued to improve the experience of
KDE software and Qt under &os;. During this quarter, the team
has kept most of the KDE and Qt ports up-to-date, working on the
following releases:</p>
@@ -434,8 +439,8 @@
<p>The Documentation Project has been using old versions of markup
standards until recently when we switched to a real XML
toolchain and DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsolete
- technologies — DSSSL and Jade. Besides, DocBook 5.0
- provides cleaner markup and some nice new features.</p>
+ technologies — DSSSL and Jade. DocBook 5.0 provides
+ cleaner markup and some nice new features.</p>
<p>The objective of this project is to upgrade the documentation
set to DocBook 5.0 and to find a way to properly render our
@@ -787,8 +792,8 @@
user-friendly administration utilities, for example
<tt>iscsictl(8)</tt> which displays SCSI device nodes for each
iSCSI session. This frees the user from getting the same
- information through <tt>camcontrol(8)</tt>. But there are
- improvements in logging and manual pages as well.</p>
+ information through <tt>camcontrol(8)</tt>. There are also
+ improvements in logging and manual pages.</p>
<p>Once the iSER support becomes stable, the work will focus on
performance optimizations. The plan is to commit both the new
@@ -797,7 +802,7 @@
iWARP stack (useful mostly for testing and development), SCSI
passthrough and various other improvements.</p>
- <p>This project is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p>
+ <p>This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -836,14 +841,14 @@
<tt>&os;.org</tt> until the zone signatures were
refreshed.</li>
- <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-dtrace</tt> mailing list per George
- Neville-Neil.</li>
+ <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-dtrace</tt> mailing list, requested
+ by George Neville-Neil.</li>
- <li>Resurrected the <tt>freebsd-testing</tt> mailing list per
- Garrett Cooper.</li>
+ <li>Resurrected the <tt>freebsd-testing</tt> mailing list,
+ requested by Garrett Cooper.</li>
- <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-tex</tt> mailing list per Hiroki
- Sato.</li>
+ <li>Created the <tt>freebsd-tex</tt> mailing list, requested by
+ Hiroki Sato.</li>
<li>In response to another comment that our message rejection
message was unclear in the case that greylisting was the
@@ -860,7 +865,7 @@
</ul>
</li>
- <li>Initiated de-orbit for <tt>freebsd-mozilla</tt> in favor of
+ <li>Began replacing <tt>freebsd-mozilla</tt> with
<tt>freebsd-gecko</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</body>
@@ -893,9 +898,9 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>Capsicum (lightweight OS capability and sandbox framework) is
- being actively worked on. In the last few months the following
- tasks have been completed:</p>
+ <p>Capsicum, lightweight OS capability and sandboxing framework,
+ is being actively worked on. In the last few months the
+ following tasks have been completed:</p>
<ul>
<li>Committed Capsicum overhaul to &os; <tt>head</tt> (r247602).
@@ -953,7 +958,7 @@
for example. This requires deep understanding of how the tool
in question works, not necessarily only Capsicum.</p>
- <p>This work is being sponsored by the &os; Foundation.</p>
+ <p>This work is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
</body>
<help>
@@ -1126,25 +1131,25 @@
they are working on these days. There was a detour this year to
visit the beautiful city of Naples of Italy, the home of pizza.
Fortunately, the event has again gained support from numerous
- and generous sponsors, such as the &os; Foundation, the EMC
+ and generous sponsors, such as The &os; Foundation, the EMC
Corporation, iXsystems, FreeBSDMall, BSD Magazine, and many
others which enabled us to cover the costs of travel and
accommodation for the speakers. We are really grateful for
- this!</p>
+ this.</p>
<p>Similarly to the previous years, the whole event started with a
- common dinner in the downtown (somewhere around the Ireland
- Irish Pub) on Friday which suddenly turned into a do-it-yourself
- pizza-fest. Then it was followed by the Saturday event at the
- Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging. There we had a lot
- of attendees for the associated BSDA exam in the morning —
- 8 persons! The event itself had many interesting topics as
- well, for example moving MCLinker into the BSD world,
- organization and culture of the &os; Project, the new
- <tt>callout(9)</tt> framework, building and testing ports with
- Poudriere and Tinderbox, &os; in the embedded space, or building
- reliable VPN networks with OpenBSD. See the links in the report
- for more.</p>
+ dinner in the downtown (somewhere around the Irish Pub) on
+ Friday which suddenly turned into a do-it-yourself pizza-fest.
+ Then it was followed by the Saturday event at the Institute of
+ Biostructures and Bioimaging. There we had a lot of attendees
+ for the associated BSDA exam in the morning — 8 persons.
+ The event itself had many interesting topics as well, for
+ example moving MCLinker into the BSD world, organization and
+ culture of the &os; Project, the new <tt>callout(9)</tt>
+ framework, building and testing ports with Poudriere and
+ Tinderbox, &os; in the embedded space, or building reliable VPN
+ networks with OpenBSD. See the links in the report for
+ more.</p>
</body>
</project>
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