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# $NetBSD: BRANCHES,v 1.196 2007/05/28 09:29:18 hubertf Exp $
#
# This file contains a list of branches that exist in the NetBSD CVS
# tree and their current state.
#
# This list is necessarily incomplete.
#
# Within reason, developers may create branch and version tags at any
# time for any purpose. To avoid name collisions, private tags should
# have names which begin with the developer's NetBSD login name
# followed by a - or _ character (e.g., thorpej_scsipi,
# thorpej-signal)
#
# Any branch or version tag not listed here should be assumed to be
# private to the developer who created it. It is inappropriate for
# anyone other than that developer to commit, move tags, or otherwise
# modify the contents of the branch.
#
# Please update this file when a new branch is ready for consumption
# by folks other than the maintainer, or when the use or status of an
# existing branch changes significantly.
#
# Format:
# Branch: name of branch
# Description: Purpose and intention of the branch
# Status: Active/Terminated/Dormant
# Start Date: date first instantiated
# End Date: date it was Terminated/made_Dormant, if any
# Base Tag: netbsd-1-5-base, etc.
# Maintainer: Somebody to blame.
# Scope: Portion of the tree covered.
# Notes: Various other info, perhaps explanation of special tags,
# who-may-commit policies, etc.
#
# There are four sections to this file:
# Release branches
# Individual developers' branches (Active/Dormant)
# Individual developers' branches (Terminated), and
# other
#
# Entries within each section should be alphabetized.
#
# Release branches:
Branch: comdex-fall-1999
Description: Special release branch for pre-1.5 release at
Fall 1999 COMDEX.
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: comdex-fall-1999-base
Maintainer: ?
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Branch: netbsd-0-9
Description: The NetBSD 0.9 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-0-9-base
Maintainer: Release Engineering <releng@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes: Subsidiary tags of: netbsd-0-9-ALPHA, netbsd-0-9-ALPHA2,
netbsd-0-9-BETA, netbsd-0-9-RELEASE.
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-0
Description: The NetBSD 1.0 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-1-0-base
Maintainer: Release Engineering <releng@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-1
Description: The NetBSD 1.1 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-1-1-base
Maintainer: Release Engineering <releng@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-2
Description: The NetBSD 1.2 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-1-2-base
Maintainer: Release Engineering <releng@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-3
Description: The NetBSD 1.3 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-1-3-base
Maintainer: Release Engineering <releng@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-4
Description: The NetBSD 1.4 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date: 1 Apr 2000
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-1-4-base
Maintainer: 1.4 Release Engineering <releng-1-4@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-5
Description: The NetBSD 1.5 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date: 20 Jun 2000
End Date: 26 Jan 2005
Base Tag: netbsd-1-5-base
Maintainer: 1.5 Release Engineering <releng-1-5@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to release engineering.
Branch: netbsd-1-6
Description: The NetBSD 1.6 release branch
Status: Terminated
Start Date: 22 May 2002
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-1-6-base
Maintainer: 1.6 Release Engineering <releng-1-6@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Commits restricted to Release Engineering.
Branch: netbsd-2
Description: The NetBSD 2 release branch
Status: Active
Start Date: 23 Dec 2004
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-2-base
Maintainer: 2 Release Engineering <releng-2@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree. (src + xsrc)
Notes:
Commits restricted to Release Engineering.
Branch: netbsd-2-0
Description: Originally the NetBSD 2.0 release branch and now the branch
tracking security/critical fixes for the NetBSD 2.0 series
Status: Active
Start Date: 28 Mar 2004 and changed for security/critical function on
23 Dec 2004
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-2-0-base
Maintainer: 2.0 Release Engineering <releng-2-0@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree. (src + xsrc)
Notes: Branch was re-purposed to security/critical change function
once 2.0 released. See netbsd-2 for current branch to track
NetBSD 2 tree.
Commits restricted to Release Engineering.
Branch: netbsd-2-1
Description: Tracking security/critical fixes for NetBSD 2.1
Status: Active
Start Date: 26 Oct 2005
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-2-1-RELEASE
Maintainer: 2 Release Engineering <releng-2@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree. (src + xsrc)
Notes: Branch contains only security/critical fixes to
NetBSD 2.1. For new features, use netbsd-2 branch.
Commits restricted to Release Engineering.
Branch: netbsd-3
Description: The NetBSD 3 release branch
Status: Active
Start Date: 16 Mar 2005
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-3-base
Maintainer: 3 Release Engineering <releng-3@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree. (src + xsrc)
Notes:
Commits restricted to Release Engineering.
Branch: netbsd-4
Description: The NetBSD 4 release branch
Status: Active
Start Date: 8 Aug 2006
End Date:
Base Tag: netbsd-4-base
Maintainer: 4 Release Engineering <releng-4@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree. (src + xsrc)
Notes:
Commits restricted to Release Engineering.
########################################################################
# Individual developers' branches (Active/Dormant):
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Branch: ad-audiomp
Description: Add MP locking to the audio drivers
Status: Active
Start Date: 28 Febuary 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: ad-audiomp-base
Maintainer: Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: Making the audio drivers MP safe is necessary before efforts
can be made to make the VM system MP safe. About 1/2 of the
drivers are converted, the remaining 1/2 need more changes.
As of import this is snapshot of work in progress and so
may not compile; in particular the midi changes are very
much "in progress". The audio component has been tested
and verified to work with emuxki and auvia. There may
be a locking issue in the ac97 code at boot.
The are two locks per device instance, an ISR lock and
a character device lock. The ISR lock replaces calls to
splaudio()/splx(), and will be held across calls to device
methods which were called at splaudio() before (e.g.
trigger_output). The character device lock is held across
calls to nearly all of the methods, excluding some only
used for initializtion, e.g. get_locks. This needs to be
documented at merge time.
To test on a multi way x86 system, search for "mpsafe" in
x86/x86/intr.c and change IPL_SCHED to IPL_AUDIO. Run a job
that will acquire the ISR lock (depends on the hardware, but
"while true; do mixerctl -a > /dev/null; done" may suffice).
Play audio, run lockstat and verify that that there is
contention on the ISR lock.
Branch: bjh21-hydra
Description: Simtec Hydra support and ARM SMP in general
Status: Dormant
Start Date: 18 Oct 2002
End Date:
Base Tag: bjh21-hydra-base
Maintainer: Ben Harris <bjh21@NetBSD.org>
Scope: sys/arch/arm sys/arch/acorn32
Notes: This code was on a branch because it involves changes to
cpuswitch.S which would otherwise make merging the
nathanw_sa branch difficult.
Branch: gmcgarry_ctxsw
Description: Separate scheduler from context-switch code
Status: Dormant
Start Date: 18 December 2002
End Date:
Base Tag: gmcgarry_ctxsw_base
Maintainer: Gregory McGarry <gmcgarry@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: Removing knowledge of the schedular and its run queues
from the machine-dependent context switch code is the
first step in cleaning up the scheduler. It is necessary
for the newlock branch, making the scheduler SMP friendly,
adding real-time scheduler extensions, and reducing the
number of code paths for LWP and proc switching.
Branch: gmcgarry_ucred
Description: Integrate and encapsulate user credentials
Status: Dormant
Start Date: 18 December 2002
End Date:
Base Tag: gmcgarry_ucred_base
Maintainer: Gregory McGarry <gmcgarry@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: merge pcred and ucred and poolify
Branch: itohy-usb1
Description: USB stack overhaul, mostly DMA related
Status: Active
Start Date: 22 May 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: itohy-usb1-base
Maintainer: ITOH Yasufumi <itohy@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: To check out the kernel source tree,
1. check out checkout script
cvs checkout -ritohy-usb1 src/sys/dev/usb/filelist
2. update files in the branch
sh -e src/sys/dev/usb/filelist
Branch: kame
Description: KAME Project
Status: Dormant
Start Date: 28 Jun 1999
End Date:
Base Tag:
Maintainer: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: http://www.kame.net
Used for "reference" purposes for early part of KAME
integration effort. The branch is not actively used, as I
(itojun) use patch(1) and diff(1) for the KAME syncs.
Branch: kent-audio2
Description: In-kernel audio mixer
Status: Active
Start Date: Sun Jan 16 2005
End Date:
Base Tag: kent-audio2-base
Maintainer: TAMURA Kent <kent@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel (audio device drivers)
Notes: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/12/03/0007.html
Please consult with the maintainer before committing
to this branch.
This branch is not expected to be compilable yet.
Branch: matt-timespec
Description: Convert the kernel to struct timespec as its primary time
storage mechanism.
Status: Active
Start Date: 2005-02-19
End Date:
Base Tag:
Maintainer: Matt Thomas <matt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: newlock
Description: New locking primitives, based on Solaris's
Status: Terminated
Start Date: March 9, 2002
End Date: Febuary 12, 2007
Base Tag: newlock-base
Maintainer: Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Kernel
Notes: The goal is to replace the existing lockmgr() and
simple_lock() based locking mechanisms with the
primitives found in Solaris: mutexes and rwlocks.
Superseeded by the newlock2 branch.
Branch: newlock2
Description: New locking primitives, based on Solaris's
Status: Terminated
Start Date: September 9, 2006
End Date: Febuary 12, 2007
Base Tag: newlock2-base
Maintainer: Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Kernel
Notes: As per the newlock branch, however given the amount of time
the original branch has lain dormant, a new one has been
created. Goals:
- Implement new locking primitives on most-used ports.
- Minor locking improvements.
- Remove spinlockmgr().
Branch: pkgviews
Description: package views, enabling multiple conflicting packages to co-exist
Status: Active
Start Date: 22 July 2002
End Date:
Base Tag: pkgviews
Maintainer: Alistair Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>
Scope: pkgsrc, basesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install
Notes: A more flexible infrastructure for third-party packages by
allowing multiple conflicting packages and versions to co-exist
within the same tree
Branch: ppcoea-renovation
Description: General renovation and cleanup of all OEA PowerPC ports.
Status: Active
Start Date: 30 April 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: ppcoea-renovation-base
Maintainer: Tim Rightnour <garbled@netbsd.org>
Scope: src/sys/arch
Notes: This branch is for a general cleanup of all OEA-based PowerPC
ports. OEA (Operating Environment Architecture) PowerPC refers
to the 601, 603, 604, and similar chips. Specifically, not the
403/401 and other embedded chips. The general concept is to get
them all compiling, and sharing as much code as possible. All
developers are welcome to commit to this branch.
Branch: rpaulo-netinet-merge-pcb
Description: merge in6pcb with inpcb
Status: Dormant
Start Date: Wed Feb 01 2006
End Date:
Base Tag: rpaulo-netinet-merge-pcb-base
Maintainer: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys
Notes: No longer active due to the lack of time. If you plan to
continue this branch, sys/netinet/in_pcb.h already contains
the proposed structure layout (which was roughly discussed
in the tech-net mailing list).
I also defined INP_*() macros to mimicate FreeBSD's inpcb
locking style, but currently they do nothing and are not
yet called at the correct places (needs discussion about
kernel fine-grained locking).
To continue this branch, one needs to read all the relevant
inpcb/in6pcb source files and change the function names,
structure names, structure fileds according to the new
layout (in6pcb is gone).
Don't try to build a kernel from this branch because it won't
work. The missing pieces required to do a complete build
were not committed because they were incomplete and generated
panics.
You shouldn't need to worry about KAME syncs because
they did most of them by now.
After the work is done, you are required to test the branch
(before the merge to -current) with an interop IPv6 test.
More info at: http://www.tahi.org/
Branch: rtr-xorg-branch
Description: xorg & static build alterations to src/x11
Status: Active
Start Date: Nov 15 2004
End Date:
Base tag: rtr-xorg-branch-base
Maintainer: Tyler R. Retzlaff <rtr@NetBSD.org>
Scope: x11
distrib/sets/lists
share/mk/bsd.x11.mk
share/mk/bsd.own.mk
etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist
Notes: Requires parts of xsrc/xfree (HEAD)
xsrc/local, xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/netbsd
Requires xorg (XORG-6_8_1)
Branch: wrstuden-fixsa
Description: Fix a number of issues present with Scheduler Activations.
Status: Active
Start Date: 15 May 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: wrstuden-fixsa-base
Maintainer: Bill Stouder-Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src, though all the interesting stuff is in the kernel
or lib/libpthread or maybe gdb.
Notes: This branch is based off of the netbsd-4 branch!
This branch is intended to stage improvements for the
Scheduler Activations system for NetBSD 4. Improvements
include not allocating memory while preparing to tsleep(),
reducing inappropriate upcall delivery (hopefully also
eliminating the need to mlock stacks), and being
able to pthread_kill() running threads.
Branch: vmlocking
Description: Make memory allocators and trap handling MP safe
Status: Active
Start Date: 13 March 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: vmlocking-base
Maintainer: Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
- Replace all simplelocks with mutexes
- Remove spinlockmgr
- Make memory allocators MP safe
- Make trap handling MP safe: push kernel lock acquire
back into pager ops.
Only i386 is currently update. Most per architecture
changes need to be made in the pmap module. LFS is not
currently stable due interaction between the pagedaemon (?)
and the HOLDRELE() in lfs_segment.c. It may trash your
filesystem..
Most of the locks replaced are now sleep/adaptive locks or
spin locks at IPL_VM. Assuming audio interrupt handlers
are made MP safe there are far fewer potential deadlocks
against the kernel lock.
v_interlock becomes an adaptive mutex so now acquring
it can potentially block, similarly for other locks
that were before simplelocks. This needs to be audited
carefully.
Use vnodes in general needs to be audited, as vnodes can
now be inspected without the kernel lock held.
Acquiring locks in the pmap module can now block, meaning
that the current pmap, cpu or lazy pmap status can change
out from underneath the requestor. This also needs to be
audited.
Currently, i386 has the necessary modifications, and has
trap handling and a few calls to allocators out from under
the kernel lock. There are still problems that need to be
debugged.
Need to check that whenever a lock is initialized, it is
also destroyed.
Lots of testing required.
Branch: yamt-lazymbuf
Description: implement and evaluate lazy mapping of mbuf external data pages
also, change the way to share mbuf external storage.
it's intended as the first step of larger changes.
1. support operations (esp. bus_dma load) on
unmapped mbuf.
2. unify mbuf and buf.
(or, at least some parts of them)
3. then it should be trivial to implement
i/o coalescing, etc.
Status: Active
Start Date: Wed Jul 6 2005
End Date:
Base Tag: yamt-lazymbuf-base4
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys (src/common is tagged but not branched)
Notes:
i386 DONE
amd64 DONE
other ports should work as the trunk does.
(conditionalized by __HAVE_LAZY_MBUF macro)
Branch: reinoud-bufcleanup
Description: implement and evaluate struct buf usage cleanup strategies.
Ideas currently in mind (preference for b):
a)
1. use of bio_ops per buffer.
2. allow chaining/overloading of functions in bio_ops
and provide some private context.
3. extend the bio_ops with commenly used functionality
like pending action counting, custom context passing,
last minute processing of buffer data, buffer cache
etc.
4. investigate the use of the kcont()
continuation-passing framework for async io
completion notification for bufs
...
b)
1. all sequencing use of B_CALL replaced by
device-threads, if possible generic code around BUFQ
2. possibly use kcont() for async IO finished signalling
3. counter of pending and queued actions requestable
by IOCTL interface?
4. implement `last minute buffer fixup' calls and maybe
even finished I/O calls as vnode operations
...
Status: Active
Start Date: Thu Mar 15 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: reinoud-bufcleanup-base
Maintainer: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys and src/common
Notes: Used as expiriment sandbox and if successful hopefully one day
to be intergrated.
Branch: thorpej-atomic
Description: Implementation of an atomic memory operations API modeled
after the one in Solaris 10.
Status: Active
Start Date: Apr 11 2007
End Date:
Base tag: thorpej-atomic-base
Maintainer: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org>
Scope: src/common
src/sys
Notes: Base atomic primitives need to be implemented for
all of the supported architectures:
alpha DONE
arm DONE
hppa
i386 DONE
ia64
m68k DONE (except for 68010)
mips
ns32k
powerpc DONE except for membar_*()
powerpc64 DONE except for membar_*()
sh3
sparc DONE except for membar_*()
sparc64 DONE except for membar_*()
vax
x86_64 DONE
Tested:
alpha NO
arm NO
hppa NO
i386 NO
ia64 NO
m68k NO
mips NO
ns32k NO
powerpc NO
powerpc64 NO
sh3 NO
sparc NO
sparc64 NO
vax NO
x86_64 NO
TODO:
all - Need to replace mb_*() with membar_*().
- Audit MUTEX_CAS() and RWLOCK_CAS() uses
to see of membar_enter() is required here.
- Talk to ad@ -- figure out of non-atomic
mutex / rwlock release is actually safe.
arm - Consider using a RAS technique like
MIPS uses for _lock_cas() and the mutex
stubs. Possibly do more than one atomic
op as a RAS. Possibly implement mutex
stubs using the technique.
m68k - Need to do 68010 support.
i386 - Need to change when x86_patch() is called
so we can test ncpus.
powerpc - Figure out if we need barriers in the
atomic ops themselves (hopefully not!)
x86_64 - Need to change when x86_patch() is called
so we can test ncpus.
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# Individual developers' branches (Terminated):
########################################################################
Branch: bouyer-scsipi
Description: Integration of atapi support
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag:
Maintainer: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: Superseded by thorpej_scsipi
Branch: bouyer-xen2
Description: update xen port to xen 2.0, with support for domain0 operations
Status: Terminated
Start Date: Dec 13 2004
End Date: Mar 10 2005
Base Tag: netbsd-2-base
Maintainer: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys/arch/xen
Notes:
Branch: chap-midi
Description: Renovation of MIDI support
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: 19 May 2006
End Date: 30 Jun 2006
Base Tag: chap-midi-base
Maintainer: Chapman Flack <chap@NetBSD.org>
Scope: sys, share/man, usr.bin
Notes:
Branch: chs-ubc
Description: Unified Buffer Cache
Status: Terminated
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: chs-ubc-base
Maintainer: Chuck Silvers <chs@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: chs-ubc2
Description: Unified Buffer Cache
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: chs-ubc2-base, chs-ubc2-newbase
Maintainer: Chuck Silvers <chs@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: cjs-build-against-obj-dir
Description: ?
Status: ?
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag:
Maintainer: Curt Sampson <cjs@NetBSD.org>
Scope: Entire tree.
Notes:
Branch: eeh-paddr_t
Description: use separate types for virtual vs. physical addresses
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: eeh-paddr_t-base
Maintainer: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: This is needed to support 32-bit kernels on sparc64.
Branch: elad-kernelauth
Description: Native NetBSD implementation of Apple's kernel authorization
based on TN2127. This is a "clean-room" implementation to
avoid any licensing issues.
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Tue Mar 7 2006
End Date: Mon May 15 2006
Base Tag: elad-kernelauth-base
Maintainer: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys, src/share/man/man9/Makefile,
src/share/man/man9/kauth.h, src/distrib/sets/lists/comp/mi
Notes:
Branch: fvdl-softdep
Description: FFS soft dependencies
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: fvdl-softdep-base
Maintainer: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: gehenna-devsw
Description: auto-generation of devsw table
Status: Terminated
Start Date: 16 May 2002
End Date: 6 Sep 2002
Base Tag: gehenna-devsw-base
Maintainer: MAEKAWA Masahide <gehenna@NetBSD.org>
Scope: syssrc
Notes: The goal is to get rid of the existing device switch tables in
port-dependent conf.c and to generate them dynamically by
config(8).
Branch: is-newarp
Description: ARP for non-Ethernet
Status: Terminated; merged before NetBSD 1.3
Start Date: 1996/10/13
End Date: 1997/03/15
Base Tag: is-newarp-base
Maintainer: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: kenh-if-detach
Description: Interface detach support.
Status: ?
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: kenh-if-detach-base
Maintainer: Ken Hornstein <kenh@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: kent-audio1
Description: Audio converter pipeline
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Tue Dec 7 2004
End Date: Tue Jan 11 2005
Base Tag: kent-audio1-base
Maintainer: TAMURA Kent <kent@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel (audio device drivers)
Notes: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/12/03/0007.html
Please consult with the maintainer before committing
to this branch.
Branch: kqueue
Description: kqueue kernel event notification mechanism (from FreeBSD)
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Tue Jul 10 23:08:38 EST 2001
End Date: Tue Oct 24 09:14:14 GMT 2002
Base Tag: kqueue-base
Maintainer: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel, libc/sys, share/man/man9, usr.bin/fstat
Notes: Integration of FreeBSD's kqueue(2) mechanism, with various
local internal changes to better suit NetBSD, and
enhancements such as looking up filters by name or
number, and dynamic registration of "user" filters.
The work is complete as is, but is awaiting more
feedback from various kernel gurus before going mainline.
Branch: ktrace-lwp
Description: ktrace support for lwp ids.
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Wed Jul 2 15:27:30 UTC 2003
End Date: Sun Dec 11 12:25:29 UTC 2005
Base Tag: ktrace-lwp-base
Maintainer: Darren Reed <darrenr@NetBSD.org>
Scope: sys
Notes:
Branch: marc-pcmcia
Description: PCMCIA support
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: marc-pcmcia-base, marc-pcmcia-bp
Maintainer: Marc Horowitz <marc@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: minoura_x68k_bus_h
Description: bus_space(9) and bus_dma(9) implementation for x68k
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: 23 Dec 1998
End Date: 16 Mar 1999
Base Tag: minoura_x68k_bus_h-base
Maintainer: Minoura Makoto <minoura@NetBSD.org>
Scope: sys/arch/x68k
Notes:
Branch: minoura-xpg4dl
Description: Citrus Project locale subsystem
Status: Terminated; (partly) merged to -current
Start Date: 28 March 2000
End Date:
Base Tag: minoura-xpg4dl-base
Maintainer: Minoura Makoto <minoura@NetBSD.org>
Scope: basesrc, syssrc, sharesrc
Notes: Citrus Project is developing dynamically-loadable, codeset-
independent locale subsystem. Part of the implementation
(LC_CTYPE) called XPG4DL is now integrated to -current.
Branch: mjf-ufs-trans
Description: filesystem transactions for ufs
Status: Active
Start Date: 12 March 2007
End Date:
Base Tag: mjf-ufs-trans-base
Maintainer: Matt Fleming <mjf@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: mrg-vm-swap
Description: dynamic swap allocation, swap-to-files support
Status: Terminated; abondoned for mrg-vm-swap2
Start Date: 12 February 1997
End Date: 15 March 1997
Base Tag: [none]
Maintainer: Matthew R. Green <mrg@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: mrg-vm-swap2
Description: dynamic swap allocation, swap-to-files support
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: 4 May 1997
End Date: 12 June 1997
Base Tag: mrg-vm-swap2-base
Maintainer: Matthew R. Green <mrg@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: nathanw_sa
Description: Scheduler activations
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: 5 March 2001
End Date: 18 January 2003
Base Tag: nathanw_sa_base
Maintainer: Nathan Williams <nathanw@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel, libc, libkvm, libpthread, libpthread_dbg, include,
bin/ps usr.bin/systat usr.bin/top usr.bin/w
gnu/dist/toolchain/gdb gnu/usr.bin/gdb
Notes: The idea of scheduler activations is described in the
classic paper by Anderson et al., in ACM Transactions
a on Computer Systems volume 10 issue 1 (1992),which
can be found at
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/tocs/1992-10-1/p53-anderson/
Many ideas in the implementation are based on the
implementation of scheduler activations added to Mach
3.0 and described by Davis et al. in the University of
Washington CS tech report 92-08-93, which can be found
at
ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/1992/08/UW-CSE-92-08-03.PS.Z
My USENIX paper on the subject can be found at
http://web.mit.edu/nathanw/www/usenix/
Please consult with the maintainer before committing
to this branch.
Other tags starting with nathanw_sa reserved for
branch management and are not guaranteed to be stable.
Trunk tagged with "nathanw_sa_before_merge" prior to
merging branch down to trunk. Branch tagged with
"nathanw_sa_end" to indicate the ending revision of
the branch.
Branch: perseant-lfsv2
Description: LFS incompatible on-disk data structure changes
Status: Terminated
Start Date: 27 June 2001
End Date: 16 July 2001
Base Tag: perseant-lfsv2-base
Maintainer: Konrad Schroder <perseant@NetBSD.org>
Scope: basesrc/{sbin/*lfs,libexec/lfs_cleanerd,usr.sbin/dumplfs}, syssrc/sys/ufs
Notes: This branch should be short-lived, I expect to merge as soon
as the data structures required for unremove are in and tested.
Branch: thorpej-devvp
Description: replace dev_t with struct vnode * in devsw entry points
Status: Terminated
Start Date: Sep 6 2001
End Date: ???
Base Tag: thorpej-devvp-base
Maintainer: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>
Scope: syssrc
Notes: Kernels built from this branch are not expected
to function correctly at this time.
Ports known to compile on this branch:
alpha
i386
Branch: peter-altq
Description: New ALTQ framework:
- sync with KAME sources
- share mtag/name mapping functions
- separate altq + pf attachment
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: March 16, 2006
End Date: October 12, 2006
Base Tag: peter-altq-base
Maintainer: Peter Postma <peter@NetBSD.org>,
Martin Husemann <martin@NetBSD.org>,
Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
Scope: dist/pf dist/ipf distrib/sets/lists sys usr.sbin/altq
Notes: Only the first item in the description was finished
in this branch.
Branch: sommerfeld_i386mp_1
Description: Multiprocessor support for i386 using Intel MP BIOS.
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: 21 Feb 2000
End Date: 01 Oct 2002
Base Tag: sommerfeld_i386mpbase_1
Maintainer: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@NetBSD.org>
Scope: sys/arch/i386
Notes:
Code committed to the branch has booted to multiuser
on at least one system.
Not guaranteed to compile against mainline since -current
may have changed incompatibly with the last branch update;
use "cvs update -D" to roll-back the rest of the tree to match.
Please get explicit permission from the maintainer
before each commit, or your changes will be backed out.
Other tags starting with sommerfeld_ are private to
the developer and are guaranteed to be unstable.
Only the maintainer should move tags.
Note that this branch uses a DIFFERENT scheme for
synching with the mainline. the maintainer uses some private
scripts for keeping them in synch; if you make commits
to the branch to "resynchronize" things, you'll
probably do it wrong; instead, ask the maintainer to
resynchronize things.
See sys/arch/i386/TODO on the branch for a list of known
issues with the branch.
Branch: thorpej-mips-cache
Description: overhaul MIPS cache support code
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Oct 23 2001
End Date: Nov 14 2001
Base Tag: thorpej-mips-cache-base
Scope: syssrc
Notes: This branch needs more debugging, testing, and more
ports need to be converted to the new world order.
The following processors have had cache ops
written:
* R2000/R3000 (cache_r3k) -- light testing,
needs to be beat on a lot more to make
sure it's working.
* R4000/R4400 (cache_r4k) -- mhitch@NetBSD.org
tracked down a bug, which has been fixed.
Confirmed working on R4000-with-L2.
Confirmed working on R4400-no-L2 and
R4400-with-L2.
* R4600/R5000 (cache_r5k) -- shin@NetBSD.org
has committed fixes to this code.
Confirmed working on R4600 v2 (SGI IP-22 with
no SysAD L2 cache).
Confirmed working on RM5260 (Algorithmics P-5064).
* TX39 (cache_tx39) -- uch@NetBSD.org has
committed fixes to this code. Awaiting
confirmation that it is working properly.
* R5900 (cache_r5900) -- uch@NetBSD.org has
written this code and tested it on a
PlayStation 2.
The following ports have been updated to compile (and
use optimized-for-processor bus_dma routines). Those
that have been tested and work are marked with [WORKING].
* algor [WORKING]
* arc [WORKING]
* pmax [WORKING]
* playstation2 [WORKING]
Needs optimized bus_dmamap_sync().
* hpcmips [need verification that this is working]
Needs optimized bus_dmamap_sync().
* sgimips [WORKING]
Needs optimized bus_dmamap_sync().
* cobalt [need testing]
* mipsco [need testing]
* newsmips [need testing]
Branch: thorpej_scsipi
Description: SCSI/ATAPI midlayer rewrite.
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date:
End Date: Apr 25 2001
Base Tag: thorpej_scsipi_base, thorpej_scsipi_nbase
Maintainer: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@NetBSD.org>,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>
Scope: syssrc
Notes: When a change from -current is pulled up please move the
thorpej_scsipi_base tag to the revision you're syncing with.
thorpej_scsipi_nbase is private to maintainer (only
used when syncing the whole branch with HEAD).
Just before the merge, syssrc has been tagged with
thorpej_scsipi_beforemerge
Branch: thorpej-signal
Description: ?
Status: ?
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: thorpej-signal-base
Maintainer: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: thorpej-setroot
Description: ?
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag:
Maintainer: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes:
Branch: simonb-timecounters
Description: Port FreeBSD timecounters to NetBSD
Status: Terminated
Start Date: Sat Feb 04 2006
End Date: Wed Jun 07 2006
Base Tag: simonb-timecounters-base
Maintainer: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>,
Frank Kardel <kardel@NetBSD.org>
Scope: sys, sbin/savecore, usr.bin/vmstat, usr.sbin/ntp
Notes: early (partial conversion) commit to -current
ok'ed by core@ on 20060605 for testing and further
simplified conversion
Branch: wrstuden-devbsize
Description: Modify buffer cache to deal with different devices having
different block sizes. Also DEV_BSIZE would go away.
Status: Terminated
Start Date: Aug or Sept 1999
End Date: 1 Apr 2000
Base tag: wrstuden-devbsize-base
Maintainer: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: No longer active due to lack of time, and introduction
of UBC. In terms of UBC, the primary cache for
file data is the VM cache, which needs to operate
in terms of VM pages. As no existing device has native
pages the same size as our VM pages, there already is
a mapping going on between the VM system and the
underlying blocks. So it would be easier and cleaner
to adjust that to deal w/ different block sizes.
Also with UBC, all i/o is in terms of bytes at an offset
with a certain length, so the exact block size isn't a big
deal.
Any other wrstuden-devbsize tag may (and should) go away.
Branch: yamt-idlelwp
Description: idle lwp, and some changes depending on it.
1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
(cf. gmcgarry_ctxsw)
2. implement idle lwp.
3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
4. make scheduler(s) modular.
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Fri Feb 17 2007
End Date: Thu May 17 2007
Base Tag: yamt-idlelwp-base8
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys (src/common is tagged but not branched)
Notes:
Status of ports:
alpha [ Done, UP tested, MP not tested ]
i386 [ Done, tested ]
amd64 [ Done, tested ]
mips [ Done, MIPS1 tested, MIPSX needs
further testing + fixes ]
sparc [ WIP, commited known broken ]
sparc64 [ WIP, commited known broken ]
arm [ Done, SA1 tested. ]
macppc/powerpc [ Done, OEA tested ]
hppa [ WIP. SYSCALLGATE trap issues remain. ]
sh3 [ Done, tested ]
vax [ Done, UP tested, MP untested ]
m68k [ broken ]
ns32k [ broken ]
ia64 [ broken ]
pdp10 [ broken ]
How to adapt a port?
- unify cpu_switch, cpu_exit, cpu_switchto into
a single cpu_switchto. see cpu_switchto.9.
- implement cpu_idle. see cpu_idle.9.
- add a flag argument to cpu_need_resched.
handle RESCHED_IMMED flag, which means "cause a preemption
as soon as possible." eg. in the case of MULTIPROCESSOR,
send an IPI to the target cpu.
- "curlwp == NULL" is not a valid check for idle state anymore.
use "(curlwp->l_flag & LW_IDLE) != 0" instead. curlwp is
almost always non-NULL, with exceptions like early on boot.
- remove idle pcbs.
- (if MULTIPROCESSOR) tweak processor trampoline code.
- (if MULTIPROCESSOR) call mi_cpu_attach when attaching
secondary processors.
- (if schedhz!=0) call schedclock regardless of the value of
curlwp.
- of course, update MD users of scheduler/switching API.
Branch: yamt-km, yamt-km-doc
Description: simplify/improve kernel memory management and bootstrap
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Tue Jan 25 2005
End Date: Fri Apr 1 2005
Base Tag: yamt-km-base{,2,3,4}, yamt-km-doc-base
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: yamt-km: src/sys
yamt-km-doc: src/share/man/man9/uvm.9
Notes: http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2004/12/25/0005.html
the followings are per-port status.
(account names mean "tested by".)
works enough to go to multiuser:
alpha, i386, xen (yamt@)
pc532 (simonb@)
alpha, i386, mac68k, macppc, pmax, shark,
sparc, sparc64, sun3, x68k (chs@)
cobalt, dreamcast, hp300, news68k, newsmips,
sun3x (tsutsui@)
amiga (mhitch@)
cats, hp700 (skrll@)
xen (bouyer@)
known to have the same problem as trunk:
vax (chs@, stuck while running kvm_mkdb)
known to have a problem:
luna68k (and, if any, other m68k ports which use TTR)
needs to be revisited.
-> for luna68k, although not tested,
Sysmap has been moved to avoid kva conflict with
I/O ranges.
buildable:
src/sys/arch/acorn26/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/acorn32/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/algor/conf/P6032
src/sys/arch/alpha/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/alpha/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/amiga/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/arc/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/atari/conf/MILAN-PCIIDE
src/sys/arch/bebox/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/cats/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/cesfic/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/cobalt/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/dreamcast/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/evbarm/conf/TS7200
src/sys/arch/evbppc/conf/WALNUT
src/sys/arch/evbsh3/conf/COMPUTEXEVB
src/sys/arch/evbsh5/conf/CAYMAN64
src/sys/arch/hp300/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/hp700/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/hpcarm/conf/JORNADA728
src/sys/arch/hpcmips/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/hpcsh/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/hpcsh/conf/HPW650PA
src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/i386/conf/XEN0
src/sys/arch/i386/conf/XENU
src/sys/arch/ibmnws/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/iyonix/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/luna68k/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/mac68k/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/macppc/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/macppc/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/mipsco/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/mmeye/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/mvme68k/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/netwinder/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/news68k/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/newsmips/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/next68k/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/ofppc/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/pc532/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/pmax/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/prep/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sandpoint/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sbmips/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sgimips/conf/GENERIC32_IP3x
src/sys/arch/shark/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sparc/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sparc/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/sun2/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/sun3/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/vax/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/vax/conf/GENERIC.MP
src/sys/arch/x68k/conf/GENERIC
src/sys/arch/playstation2/conf/GENERIC
Branch: yamt-pdpolicy
Description: play with page replacement policy
- separate page replacement policy from the rest of kernel
- implement alternative replacement policy
- related read-ahead adjustment?
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Sun Mar 5 2006
End Date: Sat Sep 16 2006
Base Tag: yamt-pdpolicy-base9
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys (src/common is tagged but not branched)
Notes:
Branch: yamt-readahead
Description: play with file readahead
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Mon Nov 14 2005
End Date: Wed Nov 30 2005
Base Tag: yamt-readahead-base3
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys
Notes:
Branch: yamt-uio_vmspace
Description: uio_lwp/uio_segflg -> uio_vmspace
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Mon Dec 31 2005
End Date: Wed Mar 1 2006
Base Tag: yamt-uio_vmspace-base5
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys
Notes:
Branch: yamt-splraiseipl
Description: finish implementing splraiseipl (and makeiplcookie).
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2006/07/01/0000.html
- completes workqueue(9) and netbt.
- fix PR/33218.
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Mon Sep 18 2006
End Date: Fri Dec 22 2006
Base Tag: yamt-splraiseipl-base5
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys (src/common is tagged but not branched)
Notes:
tested (by who):
alpha (yamt)
alpha (pavel)
amd64 (reported privately)
cobalt (tsutsui)
ews4800mips (tsutsui)
hp300 (tsutsui)
hpcarm (reported privately)
i386 (yamt)
macppc (tsutsui)
news68k (tsutsui)
sgimips(IP32) (tsutsui)
sparc(sun4c) (tsutsui)
sun2 (tsutsui)
sun3 (tsutsui)
sun3x (tsutsui)
xen (yamt)
compile-tested:
acorn26
acorn32
algor
amiga
arc
atari
bebox
cats
cesfic
dreamcast
evbarm
evbmips
evbppc(marvell)
evbppc(ibm4xx)
evbsh3
hp700
hpcmips
hpcsh
ia64
ibmnws
iyonix
landisk
luna68k
mac68k
mmeye
mvme68k
mvmeppc
mipsco
netwinder
newsmips
next68k
ofppc
pc532
pmax
pmppc
prep
sandpoint
sbmips
shark
sparc
sparc64
vax
x68k
zaurus
not tested:
pdp10 (i don't know how to build)
sh5 (not buildable with an unrelated problem.)
compile CAYMAN64/netbsd32_sa.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/exports/nbsd/src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_sa.c: In function 'netbsd32_sa_ucsp':
/exports/nbsd/src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_sa.c:126: warning: implicit declaration of function '_UC_MACHINE32_SP'
--- netbsd32_sa.o ---
*** [netbsd32_sa.o] Error code 1
1 error
notyet:
amigappc
playstation2
Branch: yamt-vop
Description: remove several VOPs
Status: Terminated; merged to -current
Start Date: Wed Oct 19 2005
End Date: Wed Nov 2 2005
Base Tag: yamt-vop-base3
Maintainer: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@NetBSD.org>
Scope: src/sys
Notes: http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2005/09/27/0000.html
Branch: gdamore-uart
Description: Add register table support to com driver.
Status: Active
Start Date: 14 June 2006
End Date: 13 July 2006
Base Tag: gdamore-uart-base
Maintainer: Garrett D'Amore <gdamore@NetBSD.org>
Scope: kernel
Notes: Results in consolidation of Alchemy (mips/dev/alchemy/aucom.c)
com support, and also removes a nasty hack from Atheros com.
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Branch: magnum
Description: ?
Status: ?
Start Date:
End Date:
Base Tag: magnum-base
Maintainer: ?
Scope: kernel
Notes: