svn commit: r49560 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Oct 24 02:41:54 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Mon Oct 24 02:41:53 2016
New Revision: 49560
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49560

Log:
  Add arm64 entry from andrew

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Oct 24 02:01:00 2016	(r49559)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Oct 24 02:41:53 2016	(r49560)
@@ -1107,4 +1107,70 @@
 	<tt>evdev</tt>-dependent ports.</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>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Jared</given>
+	  <common>McNeill</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>jmcneill at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/arm64">&os; arm64 Wiki Entry</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/wca/crochet/tree/add-pine64-support">Using Crochet to Build &os; Images</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Transparent superpage support has been added.  This will allow
+	&os; to create 2MiB blocks with a single pagetable and TLB entry.
+	This has shown a small but significant improvement in the
+	buildworld time on ThunderX machines.  Superpages have been
+	enabled in head with and merged to stable/11, but they are
+	disabled by default on stable/11 due to a lack of testing
+	there.</p>
+
+      <p>Support for the pre-INTRNG interrupt framework has been
+	removed.  This means that arm64 requires INTRNG to even build.
+	This has allowed various cleanups within the arm64 drivers that
+	interact with the interrupt controller.</p>
+
+      <p>The cortex Strings library from Linaro has been imported.  The
+	parts of this that have been shown to be improvements over the
+	previous C code were attached to the libc build.</p>
+
+      <p>There is ongoing work to add ACPI support to the kernel.  On
+	ThunderX, &os; can get to the mountroot prompt, however, due to
+	incomplete ACPI tables the external PCIe support needed to support
+	the netboot setup in the test cluster is not functional.</p>
+
+      <p>Pine64 support has been committed to head.  &os; can now boot
+	to multiuser with SMP enabled.  This includes support for clocks,
+	the secure ID controller, USB Host controller, GPIOs, non-maskable
+	interrupts, the AXP81x power management unit, cpu freqency and
+	voltage scaling, MMC, UART, gigabit networking, the watchdog, and
+	the thermal sensors.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      The FreeBSD Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      ABT Systems Ltd
+    </sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
