RCTL and VIMAGE for 11.0-RELEASE
Mark Felder
feld at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 24 19:29:14 UTC 2015
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, at 14:18, 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.
>
>
This is great news!
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC?r1=282900&r2=282901&
It also appears to be in 10.2-RELEASE -- I missed this. That helps a
lot...
> > 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
>
>
Thanks for taking time to fill me in on this.
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