svn commit: r46176 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Fri Jan 9 23:41:20 2015
New Revision: 46176
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46176
Log:
Add Xen report
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Fri Jan 9 22:10:32 2015 (r46175)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Fri Jan 9 23:41:20 2015 (r46176)
@@ -1207,4 +1207,72 @@
</help>
</project>
+ <project cat='kern'>
+ <title>FreeBSD Xen</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Roger</given>
+ <common>Pau Monné</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Justin T.</given>
+ <common>Gibbs</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_PVH">FreeBSD PVH DomU wiki page</url>
+ <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0">FreeBSD PVH Dom0 wiki page</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>During this quarter almost all pending Xen changes have been
+ committed, enabling the usage of FreeBSD as Dom0 under the new
+ PVH mode. The set of features supported by FreeBSD is still limited,
+ but it should allow for basic usage of FreeBSD as Dom0. Support for
+ booting Xen from the FreeBSD boot loader will be committed very soon
+ to HEAD.</p>
+
+ <p>Apart from testing on a variety of hardware, work has now
+ shifted to improve PVH support in Xen itself in order to have feature
+ parity with a traditional PV Dom0 and to declare the PVH ABI as
+ stable.</p>
+
+ <p>Regarding guest improvements (running FreeBSD as a DomU),
+ there's also ongoing work to add unmapped IO support to Xen blkfront,
+ which is blocked pending some modifications to the generic bounce
+ buffer code.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>Citrix Systems R&D</sponsor>
+ <sponsor>Spectra Logic Corporation</sponsor>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>Test on different hardware.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Improve backends (netback, blkback) performance.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Work with upstream Xen to improve PVH and make it stable.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Improve generic bounce buffer code for unmapped bios in order
+ to support blkfront alignment requirements.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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