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%%FreeBSD%% 12 Have/Need/Want.

See also [[VendorDevSummit/201611/HaveNeedWant]] for the list produced from the November [[/DevSummit|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?)