FreeBSD 2012-Q4 Status Report

The FreeBSD team has published the FreeBSD 2012-Q4 status report covering progress of FreeBSD-related development projects during the fourth quarter of 2012.

You can read amongst others about progress on the bhyve type-2 hypervisor, AMD GPUs kernel-mode setting, UEFI and the port to Raspberry Pi.

FreeBSD 2012-Q4 status report

Table of contents:

Projects

• BHyVe
• Native iSCSI Target
• NFS Version 4
• pxe_http — booting FreeBSD from apache
• UEFI
• Unprivileged install and image creation

Userland Programs

• BSD-licenced patch(1)
• bsdconfig(8)

FreeBSD Team Reports

• FreeBSD Core Team
• FreeBSD Documentation Engineering
• FreeBSD Foundation
• Postmaster

Kernel

• AMD GPUs kernel-modesetting support
• Common Flash Interface (CFI) driver improvements
• SMP-Friendly pf(4)
• Unmapped I/O

Documentation

• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project

Architectures

• Compiler improvements for FreeBSD/ARMv6
• FreeBSD on AARCH64
• FreeBSD on BeagleBone
• FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi

Ports

• FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• KDE/FreeBSD
• Ports Collection
• Xfce

Miscellaneous

• EuroBSDcon 2012
• FreeBSD Developer Summit, Warsaw