FreeBSD Wiki

Welcome to the FreeBSD Wiki!

This is a wiki mainly for FreeBSD developers - more general information (including information about the ACLs and new user information) can be found at the AboutWiki page.

• Contributing to FreeBSD: Ideas Page
• Subversion Primer
• How to get a Wiki account and write access
• Packages (pkg, pkgng) Primer
• What's New in FreeBSD 10
• What's New in FreeBSD 11
• What's New in FreeBSD 12
• FreeBSD-Themed templates for writing talk presentations

• amd64
• ARM
• arm64
• AVR32
• i386
• MIPS
• PowerPC including powerpc64
• RISC-V
• sparc64
• sun4v
• Xen
• Wii

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
• Google Code-In

Describe your work-in-progress and/or blue-sky ideas here. You might find out that your blue-sky idea is someone's WIP, or vice versa. Perhaps this can lead to less of the 'if you check that in, it will mess up my local changes' problem.

• AppleMacbook
• AsusEee
• Automatic Loading of kernel modules based only on device “plug and play” info.
• BenchmarkMatrix
• Buffer Cache Renovation
• CodeReview
• Coverity Prevent Source Code Analysis
• CScout
• DesktopIntegration
• DNS resolver in base
• ElfToolChain
• External toolchain support - building FreeBSD using a more up to date clang/LLVM compiler
• Flattened Device Tree support
• FreeBSD10
• Graphics support for the boot loader
• Graphical environment on FreeBSD (Information and status of Xorg, graphical kernel drivers and related)
• Hamradio On FreeBSD
• HDTV
• Home Theater PC
• Hyperledger Sawtooth On FreeBSD
• Improving the Linux compatibility layer
• Intel Mac Mini
• Interface ifnet(9) KPI
• Jenkins - Continuous Integration of FreeBSD
• K
• Kload
• Laptops (collective effort to share and improve experience with FreeBSD running on various laptops)
• LibElf
• LibreSSL - Use LibreSSL as libcrypto/libssl provider in ports and base
• LibXo - A Library for Generating Text, XML, JSON, and HTML Output
• LLDB debugger
• Multimedia
• NetworkPerformanceTuning (TUNABLEs and sysctls that need better documentation or better auto-tuning)
• NetworkRSS - Network Receive (and Transmit) Side Scaling
• NEW_PCIB
• Numerics (status of math functions)
• PCI Hotplug
• Performance (Netperf, PmcTools, MySQL, General purpose tweaks, …)
• PerformanceTracker
• SMPTODO (List of remaining Giant-locked kernel code)
• SuspendResume
• The FreeBSD sound system
• Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
• SrcDeDup
• TestSuite
• Transactions
• TrustedBSD / TrustedBSD Project
• UEFI
• UnifiedBusDma
• VirtualBox
• VTune
• WebcamCompat
• WiFi - undergoing active development
• xDMA - DMA abstraction layer

• ATA subsystem
• BuildSystems
• ContribSoftware
• Debugging
• DeviceDrivers
• DriDrivers
• GEOM
• KGI
• ThreadLocalStorage
• USB
• Basic VFS Concepts

• Ext2fs
• FUSEFS
• GlusterFS
• NANDFS
• TMPFS
• ZFS

• Networking
• 10G Compatibility and Tuning
• HOWTO implement WakeOnLan in NIC drivers
• Open IPv6 tasks
• Jails - also see VIMAGE
• libnetstat(3)
• Virtualized Networking
• Transport Protocols
• 802.11 stack and support
• 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networking

• ARM superpages support

• Printers

The two categories are often related, so put them here together.

• Unicode support in syscons
• Regex implementation in libc
• BSD-licensed iconv
• BSD-licensed grep

• BecomingACommitter
• BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
• HP ProLiant BIOS problem with 3TB+ disks
• KerberizedNFS
• MachineSpecificTips
• TuningPowerConsumption
• VMware/SlowBootSpeed

• DocSprints
• DocIdeaList
• IdeasWebApp
• BloggingCharter
• MissingManpages
• MarketingDocs
• PublishedFormats
• Using FreeBSD for linux-cross-development
• StimulatingJava
• AppserverJailsHOWTO
• SecureSSMTP
• DocTranslationProjects
• FAQ Renewal Proposal
• Various information on DTrace on FreeBSD
• How to produce high quality videos of BSD Conferences and publish on YouTube and FTP

• Tasks (recompilation)
• PortsAndClang

• Apache
• Haskell
• Meta-ports
  • Gnome
  • KDE
• Julia
• Mono
• MySQL
• MythTV on FreeBSD
• Samba
• VDR on FreeBSD
• Wine

• AvoidingLinuxisms
• FreeBSDPackageBuildingComparison
• PortersHandbook
• Ports Management Team (portmgr) agenda/todolist
• portsmon
• PortsNewDistfileChecker
• PortsTinderboxes
• portupgrade
• XPI, NPAPI, and Linkfarming
• Problems with linking against libgcc_s

• NewPortsCategories
• pkgng
• PackageManagerRosettaStone

• DistfilesSize
• MaintainerNotes

• PackageBuildingWishlist
• PackageCategoriesOnOtherSystems
• PackageSetSizes
• PackageSystemsComparison
• PackageSystemsFeatureComparison
• PackageSystemsMerging
• LongtermTargets
• DocLongtermTargets things doc wants to do
• Teams
• WantedPorts

• Subversion primer (this is the canonical document for FreeBSD src committers; start here)
• Git overview
• Using git for FreeBSD development

• Doxygen generated view of some kernel subsystems: generated nightly (UTC) from HEAD
• Tinderbox – a description of the tinderbox scripts used for FreeBSD src
• Various utilities useful in a daily developer's practice

• General discussion of bugbusting on FreeBSD
• AssigningPRs
• Bugathons
• Bugbusting resources
• volunteer signup sheet

• Conferences
• Developer Summits

• Colo Hardware Donation Checklist
• MentorMatch
• StaleWikiPages
• HistoricalWikiPages

• IRC Channels and IRC Nicknames
• WaitChannels
• The network performance test cluster: NetperfClusterPointers, NetperfClusterReservations