Alexander Leidinger

Yeah! Finally I got time to finish my work to put a desktop environment (in this case GNOME) into a jail. At least I have a proof of concept (I write this with firefox running in my “deskjail”). No, I don’t do this for additional security (there’s more security than in a non-jailed setup, but [...]

We got a lot of good proposals. Google is willing to give us a very nice amount of students. We didn’t expected this much. Thanks!

Now we need to rate the student applications and find suitable mentors… not that easy. It’s easy for the strongest proposals, but for the rest I expect that there will be [...]

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 [...]

I stumbled about a text which describes why it is beneficial to disclose hardware programming docs and why it doesn’t help in keeping this information away from the competition. I don’t repeat it here, so go and read it.

It’s a little bit old (last modified in 2003), but IMO still up-to-date. If someone approaches a [...]

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 [...]

Apart from Konstantin (envy24* driver author) I also got a p4 account for Yuriy (emu10kx driver author). Let’s cross fingers for a lot of collaboration in //depot/projects/soundsystem/ now…

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 [...]

Ryan got permission to extend the work he did in the SoC as part of a class at university. He wants to push down the new mixer stuff to the driver level now. He does it in the emu10kx driver (because he has such a card) and maybe in another driver. This will allow to [...]

Shaun had some unrelated software problems so he wasn’t able to do the paperwork requested by Real. Those problems seem to be fixed and he expects to get some time to do the paperwork “soon”. Real is looking forward to this as the FreeBSD build is much better now.