This summer I mentored Arnaud Degroote's Summer of Code project 'A tool to dump/restore the pf state table'.
Pf is a powerful packet filter system with a large number of features, but it misses the capability to dump the contents of its internal state to a file so that it can be restored it after a reboot maintaining
I mentored Maxwell Winderbaum for this year's NetBSD's Google Summer of Code. His project was titled "PXE Bulk Install".
I have a set of shell scripts that allow one to install NetBSD automatically over a network using a NFS mounted root on a system the either uses PXE boot or some other form of net booting. To adapt
Here is my summary of project goals and results for Lloyd Parkes' Summer of Code project, Miniaturize NetBSD.
Lloyd's project was concerned with helping developers to build small, bootable NetBSD system images by extending NetBSD's cross-compilation toolset and adding new kernel facilities.
Lloyd set out with two goals. One goal was to add to build.sh, the script that orchestrates
The work to improve the parity handling in RAIDframe was done by Jed Davis as a 2009 Google Summer of Code project in NetBSD. The mentoring on this project was done by Greg Oster. This document summarizes the project and the results.
RAIDframe (the software RAID implementation in NetBSD) suffers from long parity checking/rebuilding times in the event of
ISC has informed us of network maintenance to happen between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC today (Oct 8th). This concerns most public services directly under NetBSD.org (including this blog). Expected outage duration is 20 minutes. Please stay calm :)
This summer I mentored Nhat Minh Lê's project, XML Command-Line Utilities for NetBSD. Here is my summary of the project goals and results.
The main idea of the project was to bring the UNIX text-processing idiom to XML, helping users to employ pipelines, elementary filters, and shell scripts in XML processing tasks.
Nhat Minh's goal was to produce a
The 8th EuroBSDCon was held at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on 18 - 20 September 2009. This year four NetBSD Developers, Alistair Crooks, Adam Hamsik, Joerg Sonnenberger and Arnaud Ysmal, presented a range of topics including Role Based Access Control, Journaling FFS, NetBSD LVM, The pkgsrc wrapper framework, A BSD licensed PGP library, and fs-utils: File systems
The 2009 Summer of Code project to implement efficient wide-character regular expressions for NetBSD was carried out by Matthias-Christian Ott, mentored by myself. This blog entry gives an overview of the progress and results of the project.
The goal of the project was to enable wide character regular expressions to be added to the NetBSD base system.
On Friday, the 18th of September, a group of NetBSD developers from all over the world met during a developer summit at the Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge/UK. It provided a great opportunity for developers to meet each other in person, to share ideas and to talk about ongoing and future projects.
The summit was organised by Stephen Borrill and
For a second consecutive year I mentored Jeremy Morse for NetBSD's Google Summer of Code. This year's project was entitled Display Control and Acceleration.
Typically on NetBSD a framebuffer console driver will be implemented in the kernel using the rasops(9) library. However, since rasops is geared towards terminal emulation, what you end up with is a
