svn commit: r48021 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Jan 15 04:18:09 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan 15 04:18:08 2016
New Revision: 48021
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48021

Log:
  Add entry on armv6/v7 improvements from zbb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Fri Jan 15 03:54:50 2016	(r48020)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Fri Jan 15 04:18:08 2016	(r48021)
@@ -2393,4 +2393,82 @@
       Mellanox Technologies
     </sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>Improvements for ARMv6/v7 support</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Dominik</given>
+	  <common>Ermel</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>der at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Wojciech</given>
+	  <common>Macek</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>wma at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Zbigniew</given>
+	  <common>Bodek</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>zbb at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Numerous improvements for the ARMv6/v7 kernel and tools
+	have been developed by the Semihalf team.  Those include:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Fixes for KGDB support.</li>
+
+	<li>Support for branch instructions in <tt>ptrace</tt> single
+	  stepping.</li>
+
+	<li>Fixes for kernel minidumps.</li>
+
+	<li>Improvements for LIBUSBBOOT.</li>
+
+	<li>Support for Exynos EHCI in the loader.</li>
+
+	<li>A fix for instruction single stepping in DDB.</li>
+
+	<li>Support for hardware watchpoints, including watchpoints
+	  on SMP systems.</li>
+
+	<li>Single stepping using the ARM Debug Architecture.</li>
+
+	<li>Support for gzip-compressed kernel modules in
+	  <tt>kldload</tt>.</li>
+
+	<li>Backport of the new pmap VM code to &os; 10-STABLE (not
+	  yet sent to upstream).</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>Most of the introduced changes have been committed to HEAD
+	and more are on the way.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Juniper Networks Inc.
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Semihalf
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Finish upstreaming the hardware watchpoints support.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
