svn commit: r47622 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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|---|---|
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Author: bjk
Date: Sun Oct 18 22:21:48 2015
New Revision: 47622
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47622
Log:
Add bootloader Ficl update from Colin Lord
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
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sun Oct 18 22:06:12 2015 (r47621)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Sun Oct 18 22:21:48 2015 (r47622)
@@ -3241,4 +3241,50 @@
</help>
</project>
+ <project cat='proj'>
+ <title>Update Ficl in Bootloader</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Colin</given>
+ <common>Lord</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2015/UpdateFiclInBootloader">Wiki
+ Page</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The &os; bootloader has used Ficl 3 for quite some time, so
+ this project was intended to update the version of Ficl in use
+ to Ficl 4. Ficl 4 is not only faster but also has a smaller
+ memory footprint, both being important advantages for a
+ bootloader.</p>
+
+ <p>As part of the Google Summer of Code program, I worked on
+ importing the Ficl 4 sources to get a bootloader running Ficl 4.
+ The first half of the summer consisted of setting up my test
+ environment, as well as arranging the sources in the tree properly
+ and modifying the build files to point to the new locations. Once
+ that was complete, the sources had to be modified to build
+ correctly and to add back in some of the &os;-specific parts from
+ Ficl 3. Unfortunately, after all those tasks were completed, a
+ few bugs in the Ficl project were discovered that delayed the
+ bootloader update, so it is not finished. The Illumos project has
+ faced similar issues with Ficl 4 so I received some good tips from
+ them, but since school has started back up I haven't been able to
+ put much work into fixing the bugs.
+ </p>
+ </body>
+
+ <sponsor>
+ Google Summer of Code 2015
+ </sponsor>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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