svn commit: r49973 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Sat Feb 11 20:04:52 2017
New Revision: 49973
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49973
Log:
Finish second editing pass over the 2016Q4 report
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Sat Feb 11 19:49:07 2017 (r49972)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Sat Feb 11 20:04:52 2017 (r49973)
@@ -1155,8 +1155,8 @@
<body>
<p>Good progress on graphics support was made during the weeks
- around Christmas and the new year with the import of Linux's
- 4.9 DRM for <tt>i915</tt> and <tt>amdgpu</tt> into the
+ around Christmas and the new year with the import of Linux
+ 4.9's DRM for <tt>i915</tt> and <tt>amdgpu</tt> into the
drm-next branch of the github repository. The <tt>amdgpu</tt>
KMS driver is already somewhat usable, with a few major known
issues remaining. It now supports GPUs as far back as
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@
<p>LLD developers made significant progress over the last
quarter. With changes committed to both LLD and &os; we
reached a major milestone: it is now possible to link the
- entire &os;/amd64 base system (kernel and userland world)
+ entire &os;/amd64 base system (kernel and userland)
with LLD.</p>
<p>Now that the base system links with LLD, we have started
@@ -1291,7 +1291,9 @@
ports collection with LLD on amd64.</p>
</body>
- <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+ <sponsor>
+ The &os; Foundation
+ </sponsor>
<help>
<task>Fix <tt>libtool</tt> to detect LLD and pass the same
@@ -1339,7 +1341,7 @@
practices which create a verifiable path from human readable
source code to the binary code used by computers. A build is
reproducible if given the same source code, build environment
- and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit
+ and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-for-bit
identical copies of all specified artifacts.</p>
<p>Baptiste Daroussin and Ed Maste attended the second
@@ -1354,14 +1356,18 @@
although it currently requires a few non-default settings.</p>
<p>Approximately 80% of the ports tree builds reproducibly,
- with a few work in progress patches. Now that the base system
- can be built reproducibly, focus will move to the ports
+ with a few work-in-progress patches. Now that the base system
+ can be built reproducibly, focus will move on to the ports
tree.</p>
</body>
- <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
-
- <sponsor>The Linux Foundation</sponsor>
+ <sponsor>
+ The &os; Foundation
+ </sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>
+ The Linux Foundation
+ </sponsor>
<help>
<task>Integrate &os; ports builds into the
@@ -1412,8 +1418,8 @@
<body>
<p>Long awaited, the update to GCC 4.9 as the default version of
GCC in the Ports Collection (<tt>lang/gcc</tt> port,
- <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, up from GCC
- 4.8. This brings quite a number of improvements, see
+ <tt>USE_GCC=yes</tt> in Makefiles) has arrived, an update from GCC
+ 4.8. This brings quite a number of improvements; see
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html">https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html</a>
for details.</p>
@@ -1452,7 +1458,7 @@
<links>
<url href="http://www.mono-project.com/">Mono Homepage</url>
- <url href="https://github.com/dotnet/core">Dotnet Core Homepage</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/dotnet/core">.NET Core Homepage</url>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Mono">Mono Project Page</url>
</links>
@@ -1461,15 +1467,11 @@
have been updated:</p>
<ul>
- <li>
- Mono: 4.6.2.7
- </li>
- <li>
- MonoDevelop: 6.1.1.15, 6.1.2.44
- </li>
- <li>
- FSharp: 4.0.1.20
- </li>
+ <li>Mono: 4.6.2.7</li>
+
+ <li>MonoDevelop: 6.1.1.15, 6.1.2.44</li>
+
+ <li>FSharp: 4.0.1.20</li>
</ul>
<p><tt>USES=mono</tt> has been extended to allow for easier use
@@ -1477,7 +1479,7 @@
FSharp, MonoDevelop and OpenRA.</p>
<p>Work has started on porting Microsoft's open-sourced
- Dotnet Core. Thanks to the work of another team, the native
+ .NET Core. Thanks to the work of another team, the native
components of <tt>coreclr</tt> and <tt>corefx</tt> already
support &os;, however, there is further work required in
bootstrapping the build process and compiling the managed
@@ -1485,7 +1487,7 @@
</body>
<help>
- <task>Port Dotnet Core.</task>
+ <task>Port .NET Core.</task>
<task>Test patches for Mono.</task>
</help>
@@ -1517,7 +1519,7 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>Support for accessing floating-point registers has been
+ <p>Support for accessing floating-point registers from the kernel has been
added. This uses the same KPI as i386 and amd64. This will
allow for handling places where the floating-point state may
be modified, for example when calling into UEFI.</p>
@@ -1542,9 +1544,13 @@
these are attached via an as-yet unsupported SDIO bus.</p>
</body>
- <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor>
-
- <sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor>
+ <sponsor>
+ The FreeBSD Foundation
+ </sponsor>
+
+ <sponsor>
+ ABT Systems Ltd
+ </sponsor>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
@@ -1775,7 +1781,7 @@
quarter:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Ohio LinuxFest October, Columbus, Ohio</li>
+ <li>Ohio LinuxFest, October, Columbus, Ohio</li>
<li>Grace Hopper 2016, October, Houston, TX</li>
@@ -1784,9 +1790,9 @@
<li>Bay Area &os; Vendor and Devoloper's Summit and MeetBSD
2016, November, Berkely, CA</li>
- <li>USENIX LISA '16, December 2016, Boston, MA</li>
+ <li>USENIX LISA '16, December, Boston, MA</li>
- <li>OSC 2016, December 2016, Beijing, China</li>
+ <li>OSC 2016, December, Beijing, China</li>
</ul>
<p>Get the whole list of conferences we supported in 2016 at:
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