svn commit: r47590 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Oct 16 03:38:45 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Oct 16 03:38:43 2015
New Revision: 47590
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47590

Log:
  Add arm64 report from andrew

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Fri Oct 16 03:31:43 2015	(r47589)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Fri Oct 16 03:38:43 2015	(r47590)
@@ -1748,4 +1748,63 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat="arch">
+    <title>&os;/arm64</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Andrew</given>
+	  <common>Turner</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>andrew at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emaste at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+    <!-- Optional section but highly encouraged. -->
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/arm64" >&os; arm64 wiki page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>On arm64, numerous cleanups and fixes have been applied to
+	the kernel.  This includes fixes to exception handling,
+	asynchronous signals, ddb, and pmap.  ddb has been updated to
+	better handle accessing memory that may be unmapped.  The pmap
+	code was made more complete by implementng more functions as
+	needed.</p>
+
+      <p>Further work on SMP means that &os; now boots on all 48
+	cores on the Cavium ThunderX platform.  This includes adding
+	support for the ARM GICv3 interrupt controllers and fixing the
+	memory mapping to be shareable between CPUs.</p>
+
+      <p>The test suite has been run on both qemu, and hardware.  Most of the
+	test cases are passing, with around 30 tests either broken or failing.
+	Work on diagnosing the issues with the remaining test cases is ongoing.
+      </p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      The FreeBSD Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      ABT Systems Ltd
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Port to more SoCs.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
 </report>
