Alexander Leidinger

Today I fixed 3 linux ports (converting to the “new” world order) to not use RPM directly (the right thing is to use rpm2cpio, and bsd.linux-rpm.mk provides some nice stuff to handle this).

In the last week I fixed some stuff in the linuxulator-MFC patch. It should now compile on amd64 and i386 without problems (at [...]

I had a look at some USB PRs and wrote a list of those with patches to Warner (as he is working on USB stuff currently). I also categorized them (easy, not easy, maybe already fixed, ...). The easy ones he handled already, for the rest I don’t know his current plans.

Regarding linuxulator stuff I’m [...]

The linuxulator is synced on amd64 with i386 (since a while). This means TLS is working now and we have the same (a little bit buggy) futexes.

Roman is slowly working on the *at() commands. He also applied for the GSoC this year again. Kib is willing to mentor (in case Roman gets a free seat [...]

Today I committed the updated linux aio stuff to p4. It’s a module now, so it can be loaded as needed. I also updated the p4 diff in the wiki, so anyone can download and test it (please do it!).

Major features in the p4 diff are futexes and TLS for amd64. So if you own [...]

After the call for public testing we got some reports about LORs and a panic. This happened after an extensive parallel compiling session of linux stuff on a SMP system for several hours. Roman redid some of the locking and the fixes are in the tree. Intermediate patches already showed promising results. We’re waiting for [...]

Since my call for testing the extended linuxulator in FreeBSD-current we got not much negative responses. Ping doesn’t work on the linux side (fixed in p4), ordinary network connections (e.g. downloading some stuff) works fine. There seems to be a deadlock on SMP systems when compiling a lot of stuff in parallel (e.g. using emerge [...]

Today I committed two patches which fix the last two panics we know about in the 2.6.16 emulation. Now we need testers. Here’s the text of the mail I did send to current@ a few moments ago:
Hi,

today I committed the last fixes for the showstopper problems (panics) in the linux 2.6.16 emulation. I intend to [...]

I got time yesterday to test acroread with the patch from Intron/Kostik and … Yeah! I was not able to crash acroread in the 2.6.16 emulation! Great! Request for widespread testing soon?!?

Now we just have to determine if we have to care about the locking (I don’t know if kib@ already asked jhb@ about it) [...]

On of the major showstopper bugs in the linux 2.6 emulation is that acroread does not work. Now we have patches (proof of concept by Intron, refined patch by Kib) for it. I didn’t had time to test it yet (mind you, everyone else is not able to run acroread with 2.6, I’m able to [...]

Today I removed the LINUX stuff from GENERIC on amd64 (this syncs with i386). Now that kib@ committed the kernel linker stuff the linux module is usable on amd64 too. This allows for more easy testing/patching on amd64 and also allows on-demand-loading like on i386.