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[20100528] Source-changes ketchup Dec'09 - May'10 [Updated]
Here's what I have in my source-changes folder as interesting changes between Dec '09 and May '10. YMMV:
  • NetBSD/cats now uses X.org
  • NetBSD/sparc64 now runs a MULTIPROCESSOR kernel by default
  • NetBSD/evbsh3 now also supports the following boards: AlphaNet MS104-SH4, TAC T-SH7706LAN Ver.3, TAC T-SH7706LSR Ver.1
  • NetBSD/hpcarm now supports the Sharp W-ZERO3 series
  • wc(1) can print the longest line length now with -L
  • cdbr(3), cdbw(3) implement constand database reader/writer routines. this shrinks the services(5) database from 2.1MB to 307kB
  • /dev/{mem,kmem,zero,null} implementations are unified in machine independent code on the rmind-uvmplock branch
  • Many kernel systems were prepared to be built either into a monolithic kernel, or loaded as module at runtime. This includes verbose listing of PCI devices, Berkeley Packet Filters (bpf), loading modules only after the root filesystem is mounted, others.

  • New drivers:
    • acpiwmibus: a pseudo-bus to which child Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI, a subset of ACPI) devices attach
    • u2g: split into parts: u3ginit attaches to those devices that only come as a umass device in the default configuration and forces them to reinitialize in 3D mode and detach. The u3g part attaches to individual interfaces for the 3G functionality, leaving the umass interface(s) for that driver. With this change I can use the MMC card in my Huawey stick (as well as the integrated windows driver CD, which of course is pretty useless) and the 3G modem at the same time.
    • cas: Driver for Sun Cassini/Cassini+ (GigaSwift) Ethernet (also known as National Semiconductor Saturn)
    • aibs: replaces aiboost for the ASUSTeK AI Booster hardware monitor

  • Software imports include NetPGP 3.99.2 (20100507 version), dhcpcd-5.2.2, BIND 9.7.0rc1, libelf from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, tzcode2009k, pkg_install-20100220, mdocml-1.9.23, libarchive-2.8.2, ACPICA 20100121, bozohttpd-20100512


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[20091210] Catching up on source changes
I've dug through my source-changes archive once more, and there are entries from February(?!?) to mid-October 2009 in there that I think may be of interest to casual followers of NetBSD.

Before I go into the details, let me add a hint on the "source-changes-full" mailing list, which is like source-changes, but the mails there also contain diffs of the changes (as long as they are below 1MB in size). The -full list is not archived on mail-index.netbsd.org, and I must have missed the announcement. It's definitely useful!

So, what interesting changes have there been to NetBSD-current recently? Here we go:

  • New / updated drivers:
    • sdtemp(4) reads the on-DIMM temperature sensors following the JEDEC Standard No. 21-C Section 4-7.
    • gpio(4) got support for Intel ICH southbridges as found on Intel SS4220-E (ICH7) and Acorp 6A815EPD (ICH2) motherboards
    • lom(4) supports the LOMlite "Lights Out Management" boards found on Sun hardware like the LOMlite found on the Sun Netra t1 and the LOMlite2 found on Sun Netra T1/X1 and Sun Fire V100/V120.
    • An initial version of a SD/MMC driver for the Winbond W83L518D (and probably W83L519D) Integrated Media Reader with PNP bus attachment glue was added.
    • acpiwmi(4) was added to added, to further support ACPI development. See the specs for more details.
    • piixide(4) now supports Intel 3400 SATA
  • New kernel interfaces and library functions include:
    • getdate(3) and getdate_err(3) were added according to POSIX.1 and the Open Group
    • RAIDframe was sped up massively when checking parity after a system crash with the help of a parity map. This work was done during this year's Google Summer-of-Code.
    • A "netbsd.inet.icmp.bmcastecho" sysctl was added to disable replies to the broadcast address.
    • Floating point functions f{min,max,dim}{,l,f}(3) were added
    • udl(4) adds support for DisplayLink DL-1x0/1x5 based USB LCDs and USB-VGA adaptors
  • Random other additions and changes include:
    • hdaudioctl(8) can be used to manipulate hdaudio(4) devices
    • The NetBSD/playstation2 port was removed due to a lack of developer support. It's still available in CVS.
    • The NetBSD/i386 bootloader now knows a "dev" command to list available boot devices and their size.
  • Newly imported and updated 3rd party software includes:
    • pfsync from OpenBSD 4.2, adopted in this year's Google Summer of Code.
    • PF from OpenBSD 4.2 was imported.
    • Multicast DNS ("Bonjour") support was added, based on Apple's mDNSResponder. Enable with "dns: mdns" in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
    • GNU binutils were updated to version 2.19
    • Many of the bazillion of X.org components were updated - ways too many to note in detail.
    • BIND was updated to 9.7.0b1
    • Flex 2.5.35 was imported
    • A new m4(1) was imported


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[20090912] Catching up on source-changes, Apr to Sep 2009 (Updated)
I've been slacking with catching up on source-changes again, and today I've found to get at it. Here's a bunch of noteworthy changes that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhereso far:
  • hppa: work for PA2.0 CPUs is under way on the nick-hppapmap branch
  • Work for SMP-enabled NFS is in progress on the yamt-nfs-mp branch
  • A read-only implementation of NiLFS, the New implementation of Logging File System was imported. See http://www.nilfs.org/ for more information, note that this is a new implementation, not a port of the Linux code.
  • boothowto(9) now documents boot flags that are passed in from the bootloader on various platforms. See also the kern.boothowto sysctl.
  • The /etc/rc framework was changed to be silent when requested via the bootloader. Uses the kern.boothowto sysctl to determine what's needed. Can also be set as "rc_silent=yes" in /etc/rc.conf, the boot output can be found in /var/run/rc.log then.
  • Sun's ZFS was imported and adjusted for NetBSD. Is there any documentation for this???
  • Much 3rd party code code from src/dist, src/crypto/dist, src/gnu/dist was moved to src/external.
  • new POSIX functions stpcpy(3), stpncpy(3) and strnlen(3)
  • Kernel: during shutdown, devices are noew detadched in an orderly fashion, including stacks of file systems and storage drivers like cgd(4), vnd(4)
  • The GPIO framework was greatly revamped, with many new drivers added.
  • unzip(1) was added, which works with libarchive
  • Xen: Add support for ACPI suspend, Intel SpeedStep and AMD PowerNow!
  • Xen2 support was removed
Drivers added and improved:
  • Support for siisata(4) @ cardbus was added
  • mvsata(4): new Marvell Hercules-I/II SATA driver
  • smsh(4): new SMSC LAN9118 family ethernet driver
  • hdaudio(4): new driver for Intel High Definition Audion, to replace azalia(4)
  • sdmmc(4) adds SD/MMC support
Imported software:
  • NTP 4.2.4p7
  • libevent 1.4.11
  • IPfilter 4.1.33
  • binutils 2.19
  • BIND 9.6.1p1
  • pcc 0.9.9
  • Postfix 2.6.2 2.6.5 (Thanks, Matthias!)
  • xorg-server 1.6 and many other X parts (too many to list...)


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