RCTL and VIMAGE for 11.0-RELEASE

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

> On 23 Jan 2016, at 06:41 , Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>> On 24 Aug 2015, at 19:08 , Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What is preventing RCTL from being enabled right now? Any known/serious
>>> blockers?
>> It’s enabled in GENERIC.
>>> And the same for VIMAGE? I know there were issues with some firewalls,
>>> but I'm not sure where that stands today. Does it degrade network
>>> performance in a measurable way?
>> Ignoring performance for a second, there is more than just firewalls that needs to be done.  I started writing a plan for the next 4 months 
> yesterday.  Most of this was done a few years ago and never made it to HEAD.  It needs to be re-validated.  If my plan comes together we’ll have another 4 month window before the 11 release cycle will start.
>> /bz
> 
> It's been 5 months since the above was posted. What is the status of VIMAGE as part of base in 11.0-RELEASE?

There is ongoing work; it was slightly delayed to the original plan.  Hope it all hits HEAD before early/mid March.  Expect more patches soon.

/bz