devsummit:201706:haveneedwant12

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Already in tree for FreeBSD 12
Have
Need/Todo
Want
Discussion

FreeBSD 12 Have/Need/Want.

See also HaveNeedWant for the list produced from the November Vendor/DevSummit.

Already in tree for FreeBSD 12

ino64 64 bit inodes (embiggen ino_t, dev_t, nlink_t, add d_off, increase MNAMELEN)

Have

network

RACK congestion control algorithm (rrs)
BBR congestion control algorithm (rrs)
Loadable network stack (via jtl)
Separate LISTEN sockets (gleb)
Bulk transfer MBUF (gallatin)
TCP troubleshooting (jtl)
TCP pacing (rrs)
Infiniband update (hselasky, np)
ROCE update (hselasky, np)

Non-network

minidump sizing (rgrimes)
netdump support (markj)
bhyve CPU topology (rgrimes)
Private OpenSSL (allanjude, bapt)
LTFS port (kenm)
BSD licensed CTF (bapt)
make metamode buildworld (bdrewery)
incremental buildowrld (bdrewery)
bhyve NVRAM storage (grehan)
SDIO (imp)
Subpackages (bapt)

Need/Todo

Kernel lldb
Kill catman (gordon)
freebsd-update etc support for arm64 tier 1
Turn on vale-ctl / lb / other stuff in tools
OFED module/userland built by default
CPU scaling/NUMA
bhyve UEFI fw update
bhyve configuration management (rgrimes)
Packaged base (brd, gjb)
Turn on VIMAGE by default (bz)
Zstd in loader (bapt) (and ideally kldload symmetry)
CPU on/offlining (andrew, bapt)
libgcc with gcc ports
libssp replacement/removal
NO_INET or other special releases
Secure boot including initialization
UCLify jail config (brd)
VM “guest tools”

Want

OpenSSL replacement in base
64 bit time_t on i386 and powerpc - Flag day? i86ng? x32? x86?
Crossbuild from non-FreeBSD hosts
PNP loader (imp)
remove or rename libgcc from base/libgcc subpackage
Clean jail shutdown even if jail config has changed
pf update

Discussion

New graphics chipset support in base
Permissively licensed base
Toolchain
Tiers + architectures
- Tier 1: amd64, i386, armv6, arm64
- Tier 2: arm, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv, mips
- Tier 3: sparc64
- Virtualzation targets: bhyve, Xen, VMware, qemu, Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, Gandi, Joyent, ???
init replacements (openrc?)