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Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock Date: Tue Jul 14 06:07:14 2015 New Revision: 46962 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46962 Log: Add John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]>'s report on PCIe hot-plug. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Mon Jul 13 15:52:55 2015 (r46961) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Tue Jul 14 06:07:14 2015 (r46962) @@ -654,4 +654,131 @@ The &os; Foundation </sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='misc'> + <title>BSDCan 2015</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Dan</given> + <common>Langille</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/" /> + <url href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWW0CjV-TafY0NqFDvD4k31CtnX-CGn8f" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>BSDCan, a conference for people working on and with + 4.4BSD-based operating systems and related projects, was held + in Ottawa, Ontario on June 12 and 13. A two-day &os; + developer summit event preceded it on June 10 and 11.</p> + + <p>This was the largest BSDCan ever, with over 280 attendees, up + by more than 40 people over the 2014 event. There were a + record number of speakers and talks. An additional room and + "track" was added to provide even more choices for concurrent + talks on both days of the conference. Social media response + to the whole conference has been very positive.</p> + + <p>The keynote talk by Stephen Bourne was very popular. So + popular, in fact, that the main conference room could not hold + all the attendees. An overflow room with live video was set + up to hold the extra people. The + <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kEJoWfobpA">video</a> + of the presentation has had over 6300 views in the first + twelve days.</p> + + <p>Andrew Tanenbaum's talk on + <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pebP891V0c">reimplementing NetBSD using a MicroKernel</a> + was so well-attended it was standing room only.</p> + + <p>There were many other excellent talks, and we recommend + browsing through the playlist in the links above.</p> + + <p>Activity was not limited to the talks. Each night, the + "Hacker Lounge" was used by developers to cooperate and + interact on projects. Embedded projects were popular this + year, as FreeBSD was installed directly on wireless + routers.</p> + + <p>The very successful and well-attended closing event, held + at the Lowerton Brewery, provided an elegant closure to the + whole conference.</p> + + <p>We would like to thank everyone who made BSDCan 2015 such a + success, and look forward to next year!</p> + </body> + </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>Adding PCIe Hot-plug Support</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>John-Mark</given> + <common>Gurney</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://p4db.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/projects/pciehotplug">PCIe Hot-plug P4 Branch</url> + <url href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/r281874">Commit adding bridge save/restore.</url> + <url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/freebsd/tree/pciehp">Github branch with patches</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>PCI Express (PCIe) hot-plug is used on both laptops and + servers to allow peripheral devices to be added or removed + while the system is running. Laptops commonly include a + hot-pluggable PCIe as either an ExpressCard slot or + Thunderbolt interface. ExpressCard has built in USB support + that is already supported by &os;, but ExpressCard PCIe + devices like Gigabit Ethernet adapters and eSATA cards are + only supported when they are present at boot, and removal may + cause &os; to crash.</p> + + <p>The goal of this project is to allow these devices to be + inserted and removed while &os; is running. The work will + provide the basic infrastructure to support adding and + removing devices, though it is expected that additional work + will be needed to update individual drivers to support + hot-plug.</p> + + <p>Current testing is focused on getting a simple UART device + functional. Basic hot swap is functional.</p> + + <p>A set of the patches is now available on github.com.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + The FreeBSD Foundation + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Get suspend/resume functional by save/restoring necessary + registers. This should be addressed by r281874.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Make sure that upon suspend, devices are removed so we + are not fooled if they are replaced while the machine is + suspended.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Improve how state transitions are handled, possibly by + using a proper state machine.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"