**%%FreeBSD%% Foundation-supported projects: call for ideas, November 2021**

====== Calls ======

[[https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000394.html|FreeBSD hackers]] (2021-11-23)
  * [[https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000612.html|announcement of summary]] (2021-12-09)

[[https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/83069/|FreeBSD Forums]]
  * [[https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545955|announcement of summary]]

====== Summary of ideas ======

===== Configuration =====

Automated tool to configure a working Xorg setup on most common hardware
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000402.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000411.html

More programmable/scriptable configs
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000409.html

===== Containers, including jails =====

Application container framework like Linux OCI
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

Automatic jailing of services and applications
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000440.html

FUSE for unprivileged users in jail
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

Complete Firefox Capsicum support / firejail for %%FreeBSD%%
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544651 ▶ Mozilla bug [[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607980|1607980 - Implement sandboxing on FreeBSD with Capsicum]]
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544792

Jail configuration improvements
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544153

Jail creation and usage as non-root
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000409.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000450.html

Jail orchestration in base
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000421.html

Monitoring jails from outside using bsnmpd
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000613.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000615.html

OCI-compatible creation of jails
  * transport
  * kubernetes, maybe docker
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000526.html

===== Debugging =====

DTrace buffer panic survival and a way to recover whatever is left from ddb/core dumps for post-mortem analysis

E.g. memory modified after free debugging, other changes leading to a panic in drivers.   There is no way to actually track the last %%<%%n> > frees anymore to figure out where the memory was freed (and hence possibly used after);  DTrace would be a fantastic tool to just do that … if we'd get everything up-to until the panic out of the buffer.  Obviously the other bit is to ensure the file streamed to is recoverable.  Not sure what happened to a "network DTrace".

===== Documentation =====

ARM/ARM64 devices
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

bhyve and ipfw
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000449.html

iflib(4) network interface driver framework
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

===== File systems =====

Data sharing, without full population of the file system
  * the jail overlays the base file system via null mounts
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000459.html

exFAT and F2FS native
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

XFS native
  * GPL issues
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544139

unionfs issues
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000638.html

===== Graphics =====

AMD: GPU programming support / (ROCm)
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544338

ARM: Panfrost/Lima support for Mali GPU
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543657

CUDA framework support
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/84926/

NVIDIA: nouveau
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000412.html
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/83180/ | https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543657

===== Hardware =====

CPU/RAM hotplug support
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000408.html

ECC memory status and reporting: support Ryzen and all other capable processors
  * akin to Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) in Linux
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

NUMA support
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000565.html

Odroid boards: better support
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544870

===== Networking =====

802.11ac support (including AP)
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000397.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000398.html
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543636
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545327

Better traffic shaper
  * replacement for dummynet / altq
  * Multiqueue NIC supported and multi-threaded traffic shaper
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000538.html

Bluetooth
  * ease of use, a GUI for example
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/24179/ (2011-06-01)
  * https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=970 (2018-01-03)
  * https://github.com/helloSystem/Utilities/issues/113 (2021-01-11)
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/547339 (2021-12-19)

DHCPv6 client

Dynamic routing
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000420.html

HAST improvements
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

IP Balancing From %%OpenBSD%%'s Carp
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545795

ipfw: filter icmp not only on icmptype but also on icmpcode
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

libfetch: http/2 support
  * Some upstreams are requiring http/2, which breaks fetching for package building

IEEE 802.1AE - MACsec support
  * Implementing IEEE 802.1AE - MAC security interface support. Linux kernel has this implementation

MPLS support
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-net/2021-November/000977.html

MPTCP support
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000408.html

pf: logging on state close / expire.
  * pf, generate logs only on first packet. For a good logging, state id, state closed/expired timestamp, state hits, state bytes and state closing reason is also needed.

pf: matching and logging receive interface and xmit interface in single rule
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000627.html

pf: SCTP support
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000539.html

Raspberry Pi 400 Wi-Fi
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543609

routing: Metric support for routing
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000691.html

routing: Source address selection option for destination route
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000691.html

Support for 'any' network interface such as: tcpdump -ni 'any'
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000540.html

Wireless mesh support
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

===== Packaging, ports, poudriere =====

Distributed Poudriere
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000422.html

PkgBase
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544801

Ports CI
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000409.html

Poudriere package seeding
  * done
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000424.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000437.html

===== Virtualization =====

bhyve: GVT-g support

bhyve: suspend/resume
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

bhyve: virtio-fs support
  * or p9 host side, or other ways to simply shared parts of the host file system with guests
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000577.html

bhyve/arm64
  * on Andy's list

qemu bsd-user upstreaming

qemu hardware acceleration
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543641

===== Other =====

.NET (dotnet) support

100% llvm toolchain for base and ports
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

ARM "CPU cluster" support
  * both big.LITTLE awareness and support for running at different clockspeeds
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000553.html

Benchmarking
  * in-house improvements
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000629.html

Boot loader problems
  * pxeboot / lua / amd64|arm64 EFI hangs …

Calamares installer
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544338

Cameras and microphones
  * improve selection where multiple devices are attached

%%FreeBSD%% golang runtime: squash bugs
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000527.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000528.html

freebsd-update improvements
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000552.html

ggate: encrypted connection
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543634

Lenovo: regression with P-states and U series processors
  * [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253288|253288 – hwpstate_intel: modern ThinkPads wedge under any kind of load or during boot]]
  * [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248659|248659 – Specific intel chips lock up with P-states active]]

%%NanoBSD%% improvements
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/545548

NFS inside VNET jails

PCIe pass-through
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544862

Pulse-code modulation (PCM)/sound: play nice with dynamically appearing and disappearing audio device
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000455.html

Raspberry Pi 400 sound over HDMI
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543609

rc.subr: support for cpuset
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000440.html

Sensors
  * support for sensors in common hardware monitoring chips on consumer hardware (temperature, voltage, fan speed, etc)
  * unified support for various available sensors (CPU temperature etc)

smbfs in base: support SMBv2 and SMBv3
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000405.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000521.html

SMP awareness for base tools

Suspend to disk (hibernation)
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000395.html

sysutils/lsof fixes
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000436.html
  * https://github.com/lsof-org/lsof/pull/184 (2021-12-18) ◀ [[https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/83380/|Improvements to sysutils/lsof]]

Thunderbolt / newer USB support
  * also to remove troubles with other USB interactions on laptops
  * Scott Long has WIP?
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/543636

Tor Browser bundle
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000396.html

ULE scheduler improvements
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000558.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000569.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000570.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000571.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-November/000573.html
  * https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2021-December/000585.html