Stephen J. Kiernan

Email: stevek@FreeBSD.org

IRC: stevek on EFnet and Freenode

• MAC modules
  • Verified execution - a.k.a. veriexec https://github.com/hackagadget/freebsd/tree/hackagadget/veriexec
• RNG driver for the RPi/RPi2
  • Committed as GRN 303035

• Network stack as a module https://github.com/hackagadget/freebsd/tree/hackagadget/netstack
  • Able to pre-load network stack as a module from the loader (GitHub tree not completely up to date with prototype sources yet.)
  • Slide deck from BSDCan 2016 PowerPoint (.pptx) PDF
  • TODO
    • Allow for registering/deregistering protocol domains
    • Allow for registering/deregistering ioctl groups
    • Unwind the IPv4 and IPv6 bits from jails
    • VNET support
    • Load and unload of netstack module (with kldload and kldunload)
    • Multiple network stack instances and association with processes/jails/etc.

• Tarball file system (tarfs) https://github.com/hackagadget/freebsd/tree/hackagadget/tarfs
  • Able to mount uncompressed tarballs
  • TODO
    • Support for xz compressed tarballs
    • Support for PAX format with extended headers
    • Internationalization support

• Upgrade to Ficl4 https://github.com/hackagadget/freebsd/tree/hackagadget/ficl4
  • Still needs some work on the memory management side (to grow the heap when necessary)
• Extensions for network loading and installation
• User space loader testing (work in progress)