svn commit: r47604 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Sat Oct 17 18:50:52 2015
New Revision: 47604
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47604
Log:
Add xen report from royger
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 Sat Oct 17 17:54:42 2015 (r47603)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sat Oct 17 18:50:52 2015 (r47604)
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</help>
</project>
+ <project cat='kern'>
+ <title>&os; Xen</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Roger</given>
+ <common>Pau Monné</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Julien</given>
+ <common>Grall</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_PVH">&os; PVH DomU wiki
+ page</url>
+ <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0">&os; PVH Dom0 wiki
+ page</url>
+ <url href="http://www.xenproject.org/component/allvideoshare/video/latest/bsdcan-2015-how-to-port-bsd-as-a-xen-on-arm-guest.html">Porting
+ &os; as a Xen ARM guest</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>Xen is a hypervisor using a microkernel design, providing
+ services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute
+ on the same computer hardware concurrently. Xen support for &os;
+ on x86 as a guest was introduced in version 8 and ARM support is
+ currently being worked on. Support for running &os; as an amd64
+ Xen host (Dom0) is available in HEAD.</p>
+
+ <p>On the x86 front most of the Xen work during this quarter
+ was focused on reworking the implementation of PVH inside of the
+ Xen hypervisor, so most of the activity during this quarter
+ happened inside of the hypervisor. Patches for a clean PVH
+ implementation have been posted, with the aim of having them
+ merged in the next Xen release (4.7). Once that's done, work will
+ continue on adding new features to both &os; and Xen in order to
+ have feature parity with traditional PV guests/hosts.</p>
+
+ <p>Apart from this, work is ongoing to import a new netfront
+ from Linux in order to support new features, like split event
+ channel and multiple queue support.</p>
+
+ <p>On the ARM front, this quarter's work focused on getting
+ &os;/arm64 booting as Xen guest. The current activity is to
+ upstream patches preparing Xen drivers to support arm64; this
+ includes a rework of the console driver.</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>
+ Citrix Systems R&D
+ </sponsor>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>Generalize the event channel code so it can be used on ARM.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Improve backend (netback, blkback) performance.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Work with upstream Xen to improve PVH and make it stable.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Improve the generic bounce buffer code for unmapped bios in
+ order to support the alignment requirements of the
+ blkfront driver.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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