svn commit: r49973 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 11 20:04:54 UTC 2017


Author: bjk
Date: Sat Feb 11 20:04:52 2017
New Revision: 49973
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49973

Log:
  Finish second editing pass over the 2016Q4 report

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Sat Feb 11 19:49:07 2017	(r49972)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Sat Feb 11 20:04:52 2017	(r49973)
@@ -1155,8 +1155,8 @@
 
     <body>
       <p>Good progress on graphics support was made during the weeks
-	around Christmas and the new year with the import of Linux's
-	4.9 DRM for <tt>i915</tt> and <tt>amdgpu</tt> into the
+	around Christmas and the new year with the import of Linux
+	4.9's DRM for <tt>i915</tt> and <tt>amdgpu</tt> into the
 	drm-next branch of the github repository.  The <tt>amdgpu</tt>
 	KMS driver is already somewhat usable, with a few major known
 	issues remaining.  It now supports GPUs as far back as
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@
       <p>LLD developers made significant progress over the last
 	quarter.  With changes committed to both LLD and &os; we
 	reached a major milestone: it is now possible to link the
-	entire &os;/amd64 base system (kernel and userland world)
+	entire &os;/amd64 base system (kernel and userland)
 	with LLD.</p>
 
       <p>Now that the base system links with LLD, we have started
@@ -1291,7 +1291,9 @@
 	ports collection with LLD on amd64.</p>
     </body>
 
-    <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>
+      The &os; Foundation
+    </sponsor>
 
     <help>
       <task>Fix <tt>libtool</tt> to detect LLD and pass the same
@@ -1339,7 +1341,7 @@
 	practices which create a verifiable path from human readable
 	source code to the binary code used by computers.  A build is
 	reproducible if given the same source code, build environment
-	and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit
+	and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-for-bit
 	identical copies of all specified artifacts.</p>
 
       <p>Baptiste Daroussin and Ed Maste attended the second
@@ -1354,14 +1356,18 @@
 	although it currently requires a few non-default settings.</p>
 
       <p>Approximately 80% of the ports tree builds reproducibly,
-	with a few work in progress patches.  Now that the base system
-	can be built reproducibly, focus will move to the ports
+	with a few work-in-progress patches.  Now that the base system
+	can be built reproducibly, focus will move on to the ports
 	tree.</p>
     </body>
 
-    <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
-
-    <sponsor>The Linux Foundation</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>
+      The &os; Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      The Linux Foundation
+    </sponsor>
 
     <help>
       <task>Integrate &os; ports builds into the
@@ -1412,8 +1418,8 @@
     <body>
       <p>Long awaited, the update to GCC 4.9 as the default version of
 	GCC in the Ports Collection (<tt>lang/gcc</tt> port,
-	<tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, up from GCC
-	4.8. This brings quite a number of improvements, see
+	<tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, an update from GCC
+	4.8. This brings quite a number of improvements; see
 	<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html">https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html</a>
 	for details.</p>
 
@@ -1452,7 +1458,7 @@
 
     <links>
       <url href="http://www.mono-project.com/">Mono Homepage</url>
-      <url href="https://github.com/dotnet/core">Dotnet Core Homepage</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/dotnet/core">.NET Core Homepage</url>
       <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Mono">Mono Project Page</url>
     </links>
 
@@ -1461,15 +1467,11 @@
 	have been updated:</p>
 
       <ul>
-	<li>
-	  Mono: 4.6.2.7
-	</li>
-	<li>
-	  MonoDevelop: 6.1.1.15, 6.1.2.44
-	</li>
-	<li>
-	  FSharp: 4.0.1.20
-	</li>
+	<li>Mono: 4.6.2.7</li>
+
+	<li>MonoDevelop: 6.1.1.15, 6.1.2.44</li>
+
+	<li>FSharp: 4.0.1.20</li>
       </ul>
 
       <p><tt>USES=mono</tt> has been extended to allow for easier use
@@ -1477,7 +1479,7 @@
 	FSharp, MonoDevelop and OpenRA.</p>
 
       <p>Work has started on porting Microsoft's open-sourced
-	Dotnet Core.  Thanks to the work of another team, the native
+	.NET Core.  Thanks to the work of another team, the native
 	components of <tt>coreclr</tt> and <tt>corefx</tt> already
 	support &os;, however, there is further work required in
 	bootstrapping the build process and compiling the managed
@@ -1485,7 +1487,7 @@
     </body>
 
     <help>
-      <task>Port Dotnet Core.</task>
+      <task>Port .NET Core.</task>
 
       <task>Test patches for Mono.</task>
     </help>
@@ -1517,7 +1519,7 @@
     </links>
 
     <body>
-      <p>Support for accessing floating-point registers has been
+      <p>Support for accessing floating-point registers from the kernel has been
 	added.  This uses the same KPI as i386 and amd64.  This will
 	allow for handling places where the floating-point state may
 	be modified, for example when calling into UEFI.</p>
@@ -1542,9 +1544,13 @@
 	these are attached via an as-yet unsupported SDIO bus.</p>
     </body>
 
-    <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor>
-
-    <sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>
+      The FreeBSD Foundation
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      ABT Systems Ltd
+    </sponsor>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='team'>
@@ -1775,7 +1781,7 @@
 	quarter:</p>
 
       <ul>
-	<li>Ohio LinuxFest October, Columbus, Ohio</li>
+	<li>Ohio LinuxFest, October, Columbus, Ohio</li>
 
 	<li>Grace Hopper 2016, October, Houston, TX</li>
 
@@ -1784,9 +1790,9 @@
 	<li>Bay Area &os; Vendor and Devoloper's Summit and MeetBSD
 	  2016, November, Berkely, CA</li>
 
-	<li>USENIX LISA '16, December 2016, Boston, MA</li>
+	<li>USENIX LISA '16, December, Boston, MA</li>
 
-	<li>OSC 2016, December 2016, Beijing, China</li>
+	<li>OSC 2016, December, Beijing, China</li>
       </ul>
 
       <p>Get the whole list of conferences we supported in 2016 at:


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