Alexander Leidinger

In the last days I spend my free time with mentoring Boris and the SoC students. Boris is maybe ready to fly solo now (and he already got implicit aproval for several things from me), but I will keep an eye on him from time to time for some more weeks.

The linuxolator SoC project progresses [...]

In the last days I did not only spend my time approving stuff of my mentee Boris, I also worked a little bit on the linuxolator myself. Thanks to Dmitry Ganenko and a mail of him to emulators@ I was able to fix some bugs which prevented Oracle 10g Express Edition from running. While the [...]

A happy welcome to Boris Samorodov to the ports committers team (I’m his mentor). This means I don’t have the burden to take care of the linuxolator infrastructure in the Ports Collection alone anymore. Yeah!

Today I committed another part of Roman’s work in the linuxolator SoC. Now we should get log messages for the new [...]

Portmgr committed the switch to the new default linux base port yesterday. After returning home from work I committed the corresponding UPDATING entry.

Today I marked all unmaintained/old linux base ports as deprecated (some are marked because they are EOL, some are marked because of bitrod). I use a expiration time of about 3 months. So [...]

I just removed the COMPAT_43 option from the GENERIC kernel in current. This may result in increased performance for some workloads.

In the last days I also “mentored” a little bit my SoC students. Reviewing some changes, suggesting some imrovements, committing some stuff which is ready, discussing various things and so on.

And last but not least, [...]

The last week has seen some bikesheds. One of them was my commit of the doxygen infrastructure for the kernel subsystems. Some people don’t like the way doxygen requires some markup tags in the comments, some people don’t think such API docs provide additional value and some people fear that 3rd party developers may use [...]

Just committed the FC4 port Boris did after Joe did the repocopy (Thanks Joe!). It seems this is the newest FC based linux_base port we can use with the current linuxolator.

Now that we have (or “soon will have”) an official FreeBSD blog, I decided to give this kind of electronic and public diary a try. At least to report the status and progress of some FreeBSD related projects I’m involved in.

A lot happened in the last days. We’re past the deadline of the Google Summer [...]