Kernel
Planning a personalized release of FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
As the FreeBSD 5.2.1 approaching its release day, I begun to think about the possiblity of having a personal customized release.
It’s not too hard for me, and also valuable because the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has restricted the changes in a point release to be mainly “critical bugfixes only”.
阅读全文…init(8) in jails?
Dag-Erling Smørgrav has posted a discussion on FreeBSD-arch (I have to use a outside link instead of FreeBSD’s own mailing list archive, because it didn’t updated from 2004-01-26 for unknown reason), accroding to this post, we see a need of running init(8) in jails, which allows us to terminate a jail cleanly.
阅读全文…Yay!! KSE is now default threading library on FreeBSD-CURRENT
Daniel Eischen today committed a new patch and this will make KSE default threading library on FreeBSD!
阅读全文…junsu's new PID allocation code
I have installed these code on my test box. Well… an automated patch mechanism would be better but the current approach is just ok.
阅读全文…phk's benchmarking hints
It’s important to have a scientific view when doing any benchmarks. Today, phk and Robert Watson has posted several hints to the -current list.
阅读全文…New FreeBSD boot floppy stuff using splitfs committed
John Baldwin has committed a set of patches to Floppy disk generation and removed some legacy generation scripts. The new generation process makes use of splitfs, and there’s a drawback - All pieces of the splitted filesystem must be available when the fs is used.
参与评论Point release for FreeBSD 5.2?
It’s apparantly that 5.2-RELEASE need some real fixes from -HEAD. Today, several commits took place in FreeBSD’s RELENG_5_2, and Bruce A. Mah has announced a new doc/ slush plan.
阅读全文…ULE Scheduler made default for FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
As planned, Jeff Roberson has made ULE scheduler the default for FreeBSD’s CVS -HEAD. This is an important step going forward to 5-STABLE.
阅读全文…Inside Linux Kernel Debugger
junsu has pointed a cool article to me. This article described a Linux kernel debugger, KDB, which seems to be useful even for reference on other kernel debugging issues.
参与评论FreeBSD committer 徐逸锋先生访谈
FreeBSDChina社区最近采访了徐逸锋(David XU)，一位来自中国大陆的FreeBSD src committer。徐逸锋先生在FreeBSD KSE项目中做出了相当多的贡献，在这次访谈中，他谈到了关于自己参加FreeBSD开发的一些经历、KSE、SMPng以及关于FreeBSD的一些其他事情。我们非常感谢徐先生接受我们的采访，也希望这次访谈能够帮助大家进一步了解FreeBSD。
李鑫(以下简称「李」)：可否请简要介绍一下关于您的一些基本情况？
徐逸锋(以下简称「徐」)：我是浙江绍兴人，现年35岁，大学毕业后工作过好几个地方，现住在杭州，已婚。
李：是什么促使您参与到FreeBSD的开发中的呢？
徐：我在成为FreeBSD src committer以前，一直在使用FreeBSD, 并且对FreeBSD的POSIX thread(PThread)支持不满意，一直希望有一个性能更好的PThread支持，在2002年，我有幸与Julian Elischer在将FreeBSD内核线程化上做了大量的交流工作，Julian Elischer非常友好地帮助我成为src committer.