svn commit: r50514 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jul 18 01:11:31 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Tue Jul 18 01:11:30 2017
New Revision: 50514
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50514

Log:
  Add 2017Q2 entry on Marvell Armada38X support from Marcin Wojtas

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml	Tue Jul 18 01:04:32 2017	(r50513)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml	Tue Jul 18 01:11:30 2017	(r50514)
@@ -1220,4 +1220,61 @@
       <task>Add documentation for the new feature.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>&os; on Marvell Armada38x</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Marcin</given>
+	  <common>Wojtas</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mw at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Zbigniew</given>
+	  <common>Bodek</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>zbb at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Work proceeds to finalize the upstreaming process of support
+	for the Marvell Armada38x platform to &os;-HEAD.</p>
+
+      <p>The most important bits of the recent effort are:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Add the network driver (NETA)</li>
+
+	<li>Enable coherent <tt>busdma</tt> operation for all ARMv7 SoCs</li>
+
+	<li>Add various low-level optimisations, such as L1 cache
+	  prefetch and MBUS quirks</li>
+
+	<li>Enable PL310 L2 cache controller</li>
+
+	<li>Add SDHCI support</li>
+
+	<li>Fixes for the <tt>e6000sw</tt> driver and rework of its
+	  PHY handling</li>
+
+	<li>Support multi-port PCIe operation</li>
+
+	<li>Various fixes and enhancements of the common Marvell code</li>
+
+	<li>Fix and enable support for performance counters (HWPMC)</li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>Stormshield</sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>Semihalf</sponsor>
+
+    <sponsor>Netgate</sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
