Thinking out loud...

Eirik Nygaard eirikn at kerneled.com
Fri Dec 19 13:09:28 PST 2003


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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:46:53PM -0600, Ryan Dooley wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> While I'm not sure how much is relavent work could be started on getting 
> NUMA support for Dragonfly.  We could solicit vendors for NUMA hardware 
> and the like.  I'm willing to start up that campagin.
> 
> Hotplug PCI/CPU support.  There is a lot of heavy duty hardware that has 
> this option.  I don't think any of the BSDs have hot-plug support. 
> Again I'd look for hardware to work on.
> 
> I'd also like to see something like "domain" isolation for CPU and 
> memory (think Solaris).  I have no idea where to start with this.
>

I would love to get my hands dirty with some kernel programming, but don't
have any experiense worth mentioning with it, so don't know if I can
contribute that much. I can take a look around and see if someone I know
have some of the hardware that I can borrow.

> 3) I'd like to see a binary update service.  For FreeBSD there exists 
> freebsd-update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/) and that 
> would be a good starting point.  In the long run maybe something like an 
>  automated update service for those who don't want to deal with 
> patching source.  (I totally agree that patching the source is just too 
> easy and just plain convienent - That should be an option.  I think that 
> there are some sites that don't want to do that for one reason or 
> another and would prefer to have a binary update "service".)
> 
> 4) I know that Robert Watson put up a LXR service 
> (http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/?v=DFBSD).  What about setting up a 
> Bugzilla server as well?
> 

Jeroen was working on this, but he is rather bussy at the moment, so don't
know how far he has come with it.
So let us know Jeroen...

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