--- wikisrc/releng/netbsd9.mdwn 2018/12/03 01:12:56 1.26 +++ wikisrc/releng/netbsd9.mdwn 2018/12/19 20:34:39 1.34 @@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ in touch with you. - [[!template id=pr number=53183]] System stops servicing I/O requests and eventually deadlocks * 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) - - on alpha triggers machine check - verify on other machine? - [[https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes-d/2018/05/22/msg010188.html]] - - aarch64 completely untested + - 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 @@ -46,19 +45,21 @@ in touch with you. * ~~~kASan for aarch64~~~ (done) * compiler-rt in the base with enabled features for Clang/LLVM * LVM mirror target -* add NVMM +* ~~~add NVMM~~~ (done) * ~~~plug kernel pointer leaks~~~ (done) -* fix Nouveau, some GPUs stopped working after the update +* ~~~fix Nouveau, some GPUs stopped working after the update~~~ (done) ## Nice to have * gcc 8+ from a sanitizers point of view -* arm: GENERIC kernel config for armv7 boards. -* arm64: Support for servers following SBSA/SBBR standards +* ~~~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 +* ~~~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 @@ -67,3 +68,31 @@ in touch with you. * 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. +* bwfm(4) - Broadcom Full-MAC wireless driver (from OpenBSD) +* ena(4) - Amazon.com Elastic Network Adapter (from FreeBSD) + + +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 +* LLVM 7.0.0 +* OpenSSL 1.1.1a +* OpenSSH 7.8