--- wikisrc/releng/netbsd9.mdwn 2018/08/02 08:57:28 1.2 +++ wikisrc/releng/netbsd9.mdwn 2018/12/20 13:38:33 1.39 @@ -2,18 +2,123 @@ ## PRs worth fixing -* TBD +(carried over unclosed PRs from [[netbsd8]]) + +* ~~[[!template id=pr number=53053]]: non-MULTIPROCESSOR hangs building Go~~ (still reproducable with newer go?) + [[!template id=pr number=53173]]: "go test net/http" locks up the machine (both PRs tied /!\ ) + +* [[!template id=pr number=53016]]: Clock not stable /!\ + +* [[!template id=pr number=53017]]: Kernel panics every now and then with "fpusave_lwp: did not" message + +* [[!template id=pr number=53155]]: Wedge after <12h uptime when >2 bnx network interfaces in use /!\ + +* [[!template id=pr number=53161]]: ATF test runs leave a rump_server process around + +* [[!template id=pr number=53286]]: hdaudio(4), iwm(4) and rtsx(4) detections fail in UEFI case /!\ + +* [[!template id=pr number=53291]]: GPT prevents installation + +## Bug Bountys + +PRs in the above list marked with /!\ are show stoppers and have a bug bounty of $100 attached. +If you find a solution for one of the marked issues that leads to closing of the PRs, we will get +in touch with you. ## Features to finish/implement * IPF/PF deprecation in favour of NPF - TODO: docs, what features to add to NPF ... * ATA/NCQ - - variants of [[!template id=pr number=48214]] "clearing WDCTL_RST failed" during boot - - [[!template id=pr number=52783]] parallel fsck hangs during boot of 8.99.[5678] + - ~~variants of [[!template id=pr number=48214]] "clearing WDCTL_RST failed" during boot~~ (done, waiting for confirmation) + - ~~[[!template id=pr number=52783]] parallel fsck hangs during boot of 8.99.[5678]~~ (done) + - ~~[[!template id=pr number=52614]] qemu virtual CD-ROM reports read errors since recent wdc changes~~ (done) - [[!template id=pr number=53183]] System stops servicing I/O requests and eventually deadlocks -* UBC using direct map working on amd64 and alpha -* XEN AVX working - [[!template id=pr number=50332]] AVX instructions don't work but OSXSAVE flag is set +* UBC using direct map working on amd64 and possibly alpha, aarch64 + - [[!template id=pr number=53124]] (FFS is slow because pmap_update doesn't scale) + - all known issues fixed - confirmed working on amd64 and alpha + - patch for aarch64 being tested +* XEN AVX working + - ~~[[!template id=pr number=50332]] AVX instructions don't work but OSXSAVE flag is set~~ (done) * ZFS +* ~~~kASan for amd64~~~ (done) +* ~~~kASan for aarch64~~~ (done) +* compiler-rt in the base with enabled features for Clang/LLVM +* LVM mirror target +* ~~~add NVMM~~~ (done) +* ~~~plug kernel pointer leaks~~~ (done) +* ~~~fix Nouveau, some GPUs stopped working after the update~~~ (done) +* umb(4) confirmed working with network traffic + +## Nice to have + +* gcc 8+ from a sanitizers point of view +* ~~~arm: GENERIC kernel config for armv7 boards.~~~ (done) +* ~~~arm64: Support for servers following SBSA/SBBR standards~~~ (done) +* ~~~updated graphics drivers~~~ (done) +* PVHVM and PVH +* ~~~ARM64 ACPI~~~ (done) +* WireGuard +* expand x86 intr masks to allow up to 64 interrupts per CPU and hence 48 MSI/MSI-X on cpu0 + [[http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2018/12/01/msg034728.html]] + +## Nice to have, but likely won't be finished on time + +* merge pgoyette-compat +* address failing ptrace(2) tests, cover the remaining scenarios (there are planned ~2k ATF tests total for the elementary functionality) +* rework semantics of threading operations in ptrace(2) ... + +## Release notes (top) + +* Support for Aarch64 (ARM 64-bit) machines. + The aarch64 port should work on many Allwinner machines, SBSA/SBBR compatible servers. + It supports multiple processors, including in a big.LITTLE configuration, ACPI and UEFI. + It uses a single kernel to support a large amount of boards with the help of ACPI+UEFI or FDT. +* Updated graphical acceleration support from Linux 4.4. + Intel graphics including Kaby Lake. Nouveau and radeon. +* nvmm(4) - hardware-accelerated virtualization, currently supporting x86-SVM. + a patched QEMU package exists that utilizes this. + XXX make statement reflect reality at the time of the release. +* KASLR - kernel address stack randomization. + Note that the default kernel does not use this option. + XXX maybe link for how to use it, then. +* kASAN - kernel address sanitizer build option, to detect memory access violations, for x86 and aarch64. +* kUBSAN - kernel undefined behaviour sanitizer. + +* KLEAK - detects kernel memory leaks. +* bwfm(4) - Broadcom Full-MAC wireless driver at PCI and USB (from OpenBSD) +* ena(4) - Amazon.com Elastic Network Adapter (from FreeBSD) +* GCC leak sanitizer support + +ARM hardware support: + +* Support for running on Amazon AWS ARM instances. +* Support for nVidia Tegra X1 SoCs +* Support for Pine64 SoCs, including pinebook + + +misc: + +* newsmips NWS-4000 support + +The following components have been removed: + +* ISDN support and related drivers (daic(4), iavc(4), ifpci(4), ifritz(4), iwic(4), isic(4)) +* Network ATM protocol code and related drivers (midway(4)) +* Remote NDIS API compatibility (for running unmodified older Windows drivers) +* SVR4 binary compatibility code +* VM86 +* IPKDB (remote debugger) +* NetOctave NSP2000 security accelerator, n8(4) + +## Release notes (next) + +* GCC 6.5.0 +* GDB 8.0.1 +* LLVM 7.0.0 +* OpenSSL 1.1.1a +* OpenSSH 7.8 +* sqlite 3.26.0 +