FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2020
Introduction

Welcome, to the quarterly reports, of the future! Well, at least the
first quarterly report from 2020. The new timeline, mentioned in the
last few reports, still holds, which brings us to this report, which
covers the period of January 2020 - March 2020.

As you will see from this report, we've had quite an active quarter
with big changes to both kernel, userland, documentation, ports, and
third-party projects in the form of everything from bug and security
fixes over new features to speed improvements and optimizations.

As this report also covers the start of the epidemic, it's also
interesting to note that a quick glance at the svn logs reveal that
there has been no overall drop in number of source commits, that docs
commits have also stayed constant, and that ports have seen an upwards
trend.

We hope that all of you are and yours are as safe as can be managed,
and that we get through this together by working together.

-- Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, debdrup@freebsd.org
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FreeBSD Team Reports

* FreeBSD Foundation
* FreeBSD Core Team
* FreeBSD Release Engineering Team
* Cluster Administration Team
* Continuous Integration
* Ports Collection
* FreeBSD Graphics Team status report

Projects

* NFS over TLS implementation
* Import of the Kyua test framework
* Linux compatibility layer update
* syzkaller on FreeBSD

Kernel

* if_bridge
* sigfastblock(2)
* arm64 LSE atomic instructions
* FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure
* FreeBSD on the ARM Morello platform
* NXP ARM64 SoC support
* ENA FreeBSD Driver Update

Architectures

* FreeBSD/powerpc Project
* FreeBSD/RISC-V Project

Userland Programs

* GCC 4.2.1 Retirement
* elfctl utility
* ELF Tool Chain

Ports

* KDE on FreeBSD
* XFCE
* Wine on FreeBSD
* Go on freebsd/arm64
* sysctlmibinfo2 API

Documentation

* FreeBSD Translations on Weblate
* FreeBSD Manpages overhaul

Third-Party Projects

* pot and the nomad pot driver
* NomadBSD
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FreeBSD Team Reports

Entries from the various official and semi-official teams, as found in
the Administration Page.

FreeBSD Foundation

Contact: Deb Goodkin <deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org>

The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated
to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD Project and community
worldwide. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations and is
used to fund and manage software development projects, conferences and
developer summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors.
The Foundation purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain
FreeBSD infrastructure and provides resources to improve security,
quality assurance, and release engineering efforts; publishes marketing
material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project;
facilitates collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD
developers; and finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in executing
contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that
require a recognized legal entity.

Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD last quarter:

General

We moved! Our new address is: The FreeBSD Foundation 3980 Broadway St.
STE #103-107 Boulder, CO 80304 USA

In February, the board of directors had an all-day board meeting in
Berkely, CA, where FreeBSD began! We put together our strategic plans
for the next 2 years, which includes software developments projects we
want to support and some educational initiatives.

COVID-19 impacts the Foundation. We put policies in place for all of
our staff members to work from home. We also put a temporary ban on
travel for staff members. We are continuing our work supporting the
community and Project, but some of our work and responses are delayed
because of changes in some of our priorities and the impact of limited
childcare for a few of our staff members.

Partnerships and Commercial User Support

We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD
developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and
bring that information back to the Project. In Q1, Deb Goodkin met with
commercial users at LinuxConfAu in Australia, FOSDEM in Belgium, and
SCALE18x in the US. These venues provide an excellent opportunity to
meet with commercial and individual users and contributors to FreeBSD.
It's not only beneficial for the above, but it also helps us understand
some of the applications where FreeBSD is used. In addition to meeting
with commercial users at conferences, we continued discussions over
email or on calls over the quarter.

Fundraising Efforts

Last quarter we raised $57,000! Thank you to everyone who came through,
especially in this economic crisis we have found ourselves in. It
heartens us deeply that individuals and organizations have supported
our efforts, when there are so many people, animals, and businesses in
need right now. We also want to extend a big thank you to Tarsnap,
VMWare, and Stormshield for leading the way with Silver level
donations. We hope other organizations will follow their lead and give
back to help us continue supporting FreeBSD.

We are 100% funded by donations, and those funds go towards software
development work to improve FreeBSD, FreeBSD advocacy around the world,
keeping FreeBSD secure, continuous integration improvements, sponsoring
BSD-related and computing conferences, legal support for the Project,
and many other areas.

Please consider making a donation to help us continue and increase our
support for FreeBSD: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/.

We also have the Partnership Program, to provide more benefits for our
larger commercial donors. Find out more information at
https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/
and share with your companies!

OS Improvements

The Foundation supports software development projects to improve the
FreeBSD operating system through our full time technical staff,
contractors, and project grant recipients. They maintain and improve
critical kernel subsystems, add new features and functionality, and fix
problems.

Over the last quarter there were 273 commits to the FreeBSD base system
source repository tagged with FreeBSD Foundation sponsorship, about 12%
of base system commits over the quarter. Many of these are part of
sponsored or staff projects that have their own entries in this FreeBSD
Quarterly Report, but Foundation staff and contractors (Ed Maste,
Konstantin Belousov, Mark Johnston, Li-Wen Hsu) also support the
project with an ongoing series of bug fixes, build fixes, and
miscellaneous improvements that don't warrant a separate entry.

Ed committed miscellaneous improvements to various parts of FreeBSD's
build infrastructure, largely prompted by the work to retire the
obsolete GCC 4.2.1. This included removal of the LLVM_LIBUNWIND option
(now always set), and the removal of unused gperf, gcov, and the GPL
devicetree compiler (dtc). Ed committed sendfile support for the
Linuxulator, submitted by previous intern Bora Özarslan, and tested and
committed a number of submitted bug fixes for the Microchip
USB-Ethernet controller if_muge driver. Ed also updated the copy of
OpenSSH in the base system to 7.9p1, with additional updates in
progress, and worked on a number of security advisories released during
the quarter.

Konstantin Belousov and Mark Johnston both performed a large number of
code reviews during the quarter under Foundation sponsorship. This work
helps developers in the FreeBSD community and those working at
companies using FreeBSD to integrate their work into FreeBSD.

In addition to work described elsewhere in this report Konstantin also
continued his usual series of bug fixes and improvements. This quarter
this included low-level x86 support, fixing sendfile bugs, file system
and vfs bug fixes, and dozens of other miscellaneous improvements.
Additional work included a variety of commits to support Hygon x86 CPUs
and improvements to the runtime linker (rtld)'s direct execution mode.

Mark Johnston continued his work on the Syzkaller system-call fuzzer,
and committed fixes for many issues reported by Syzkaller. Mark triaged
a large number of submitted bug reports and in many cases committed
attached patches or developed fixes. Mark also addressed dozens of
Coverity Scan reports.

Mark's other changes included arm64 Large System Extensions (LSE)
atomic operations, low-level arm64 and x86 work, virtual memory (VM)
work, and bug fixes or other improvements to syslog, the lagg(4) link
aggregation driver, and build reproducibility.

Li-Wen Hsu committed many changes to tests in the base system, such as
turning off known failing tests tracked by PRs, test-related pkgbase
fixes, and other improvements.

Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance

The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is working on
improving our automated testing, continuous integration, and overall
quality assurance efforts.

During the first quarter of 2020, Foundation staff continued to improve
the Project's CI infrastructure, worked with contributors to fix the
failing build and test cases. The building of a CI staging environment
is in progress on the new machine purchased by the Foundation. We are
also working with other teams in the Project for their testing needs.
For example, we added a new job for running LTP (Linux Testing Project)
on the Linuxulator, to validate improvements in the Foundation's
sponsored Linux emulation work. We are also working with many external
projects and companies to improve their support of FreeBSD.

See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for completed work items and
detailed information.

Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure

The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve the FreeBSD
infrastructure. Last quarter, we continued supporting FreeBSD hardware
located around the world. We purchased one server for a mirror in
Malaysia, and signed the MOU for the new NYI colocation facility in
Illinois. NYI generously provides this as an in-kind donation to the
Project.

FreeBSD Advocacy and Education

A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating for the
Project. This includes promoting work being done by others with
FreeBSD; producing advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD
and help make the path to starting using FreeBSD or contributing to the
Project easier; and attending and getting other FreeBSD contributors to
volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD tables, and give FreeBSD
presentations.

The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and summits
around the globe. These events can be BSD-related, open source, or
technology events geared towards underrepresented groups. We support
the FreeBSD-focused events to help provide a venue for sharing
knowledge, to work together on projects, and to facilitate
collaboration between developers and commercial users. This all helps
provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the non-FreeBSD events to
promote and raise awareness of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD
in different applications, and to recruit more contributors to the
Project.

Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did last quarter:
* Organized and presented at the first ever FreeBSD Mini-Conf
LinuxConfAu 2020, in Gold Coast, Australia in addition to
sponsoring the conference itself. The recap can be found here.
* Presented BSD Dev Room at FOSDEM '20, in Brussels, Belgium and
represented FreeBSD at a stand along with other members of the
community. Find out more here:
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fosdem-2020-conference-recap/
* Represented FreeBSD at Apricot 2020 in Melbourne, Australia and
sponsored the event.
* Industry Partner Sponsor for USENIX FAST '20 in Santa Clara, CA
* Sponsored FOSSASIA 2020, in Singapore
* Committed to hold FreeBSD Day at SCALE 18x, in Pasadena, CA
* Held a "Getting Started with FreeBSD Workshop" at SCALE 18x in
addition to giving a talk, representing FreeBSD at the Expo and
holding a "Why FreeBSD is Me" BoF. Check out the conference recap.

We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help people promote
FreeBSD.

Learn more about our efforts in 2019 to advocate for FreeBSD.

In addition to the information found in the Development Projects update
section of this report, take a minute to check out the latest update
blogs:
* POWER to the People: Making FreeBSD a First Class Citizen on POWER.
* Development Project Update: Toolchain Modernization.

Read more about our conference adventures in the conference recaps and
trip

reports in our monthly newsletters.

We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the
professionally produced FreeBSD Journal. As we mentioned previously,
the FreeBSD Journal is now a free publication. Find out more and access
the latest issues.

You can find out more about events we attended and upcoming events
here. As is the case for most of us in this industry, SCALE was the
last event we will be attending for a few months. However, we're
already working on how we can make more on-line tutorials and how-to
guides available to facilitate getting more folks to try out FreeBSD.
In the meantime, please check out the how-to guides we already have
available!

We have continued our work with a new website developer to help us
improve our website. Work has begun to make it easier for community
members to find information more easily and to make the site more
efficient.

Legal/FreeBSD IP

The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our
responsibility to protect them. We also provide legal support for the
core team to investigate questions that arise.

Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/ to find out how we support
FreeBSD and how we can help you!
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FreeBSD Core Team

Contact: FreeBSD Core Team <core@FreeBSD.org>

The FreeBSD Core Team is the governing body of FreeBSD.
* Core approved a source commit bit for Alfredo Dal'Ava Júnior.
Alfredo has been working on powerpc64 support. Justin Hibbits
(jhibbits) will mentor Alfredo.
* Core approved a source commit bit for Ryan Moeller. Ryan has been
working on porting ZoL to FreeBSD. Alexander Motin (mav) and Matt
Macy (mmacy) will mentor Ryan.
* Core approved a source commit bit for Nick O'Brien. Nick has been
working on RISC-V at Axiado. Kristof Provost (kp) and Philip Paeps
(philip) will mentor Nick.
* Core approved a source commit bit for Richard Scheffenegger.
Richard has been contributing TCP work. Michael Tuexen (tuexen)
will mentor Richard and Rodney Grimes (rgrimes) will act as
co-mentor.
* Core approved a source commit bit for Aleksandr Fedorov. Aleksandr
has been testing and reviewing bhyve networking code. Vincenzo
Maffione (vmaffione) will mentor Aleksandr and John Baldwin (jhb)
will act as co-mentor.
* Core requested that the freebsd-mobile@ list be retired as it was
almost exclusively receiving spam. postmaster@ completed core's
request.
* Core approved third party authentication for some project services
with certain conditions. For example, for authentication with
Google, users must be using a FreeBSD.org account with two-factor
authentication enabled. For GitHub, we will enable and force
multi-factor authentication for our organization.
* The Core-initiated Git Transition Working Group continued to meet
over the first quarter of 2020. Their report is still forthcoming.
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FreeBSD Release Engineering Team

Links
FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE schedule
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.4R/schedule.html
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE schedule
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/schedule.html
FreeBSD development snapshots
URL: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/

Contact: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@FreeBSD.org>

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is responsible for setting and
publishing release schedules for official project releases of FreeBSD,
announcing code freezes and maintaining the respective branches, among
other things.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team published the schedules for the
upcoming 11.4-RELEASE and 12.2-RELEASE cycles.

Much time was spent by Glen Barber working on updates to the various
build tools adding support for builds from both Subversion and Git.
This is very much a work in progress, as there are a number of
inter-connected moving parts.

Additionally throughout the quarter, several development snapshots
builds were released for the head, stable/12, and stable/11 branches.

Much of this work was sponsored by Rubicon Communications, LLC
(netgate.com) and the FreeBSD Foundation.
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Cluster Administration Team

Links
Cluster Administration Team members
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/administration.html#t-clusteradm

Contact: Cluster Administration Team <clusteradm@FreeBSD.org>

The FreeBSD Cluster Administration Team consists of the people
responsible for administering the machines that the Project relies on
for its distributed work and communications to be synchronised. In this
quarter, the team has worked on the following:
* Upgrade all ref- and universe- machines
* South Africa mirror (JINX) is online
* Package service of Seattle, USA mirror (TUK) is online
* Ongoing systems administration work:
+ Creating accounts for new committers.
+ Backups of critical infrastructure.
+ Keeping up with security updates in 3rd party software.

Work in progress:
* Setup Malaysia (KUL) mirror
* Setup Brazil (BRA) mirror
* Setup Amsterdam (PKT) mirror
* Review the service jails and service administrators operation.
* Infrastructure of building aarch64 and powerpc64 packages
+ NVME issues on PowerPC64 Power9 blocking dual socket machine
from being used as pkg builder.
+ Drive upgrade test for pkg builders (SSDs) courtesy of the
FreeBSD Foundation.
+ Boot issues with Aarch64 reference machines.
* New NYI.net sponsored colocation space in Chicago-land area.
* Prepare resource for git working group
* Searching for more mirror providers
+ https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/generic-mirror-layout
+ https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror
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Continuous Integration

Links
FreeBSD Jenkins Instance
URL: https://ci.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Hardware Testing Lab
URL: https://ci.FreeBSD.org/hwlab
FreeBSD CI artifact archive
URL: https://artifact.ci.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD CI weekly report
URL: https://hackmd.io/@FreeBSD-CI
FreeBSD Jenkins wiki
URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins
Hosted CI wiki
URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/HostedCI
3rd Party Software CI
URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/3rdPartySoftwareCI
Tickets related to freebsd-testing@
URL: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9maauwg
FreeBSD CI Repository
URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci

Contact: Jenkins Admin <jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>

Contact: freebsd-testing Mailing List Contact: IRC #freebsd-ci channel
on EFNet

The FreeBSD CI team maintains the continuous integration system and
related tasks for the FreeBSD project. The CI system regularly checks
the committed changes can be successfully built, then performs various
tests and analysis of the results. The artifacts from the build jobs
are archived in the artifact server for further testing and debugging
needs. The CI team members examine the failing builds and unstable
tests and work with the experts in that area to fix the codes or adjust
test infrastructure. The details of these efforts are available in the
weekly CI reports.

During the first quarter of 2020, we continue working with the
contributors and developers in the project for their testing needs and
also keep working with external projects and companies to improve their
support of FreeBSD.

Important changes:
* All the -head jobs are using clang/lld toolchain
* All the -head test are using kyua in the base
* RISC-V jobs now generate full disk image and run tests in QEMU with
OpenSBI
* freebsd-doc job also checks building of www.freebsd.org

New jobs added:
* https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-amd64-test_ltp/
* https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-powerpc64-images/
* https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-powerpc64-testvm/

Work in progress:
* Collecting and sorting CI tasks and ideas here
* Setup the CI stage environment and put the experimental jobs on it
* Implementing automatic tests on bare metal hardware
* Adding drm ports building test against -CURRENT
* Testing and merging pull requests in the FreeBSD-ci repo
* Planning for running ztest and network stack tests
* Helping more 3rd software get CI on FreeBSD through a hosted CI
solution
* Adding non-x86 test jobs.
* Adding external toolchain related jobs.
* Adding more hardware to the hardware lab

Please see freebsd-testing@ related tickets for more WIP information,
and join the efforts

Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation
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Ports Collection

Links
About FreeBSD Ports
URL: https://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/
Contributing to Ports
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ports-contributing.html
FreeBSD Ports Monitoring
URL: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html
Ports Management Team
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/index.html

Contact: René Ladan <portmgr-secretary@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@FreeBSD.org>

The Ports Management Team is responsible for overseeing the overall
direction of the Ports Tree, building packages, and personnel matters.
Below is what happened in the last quarter.

During the last quarter the number of ports settled in at 39,000. There
are currently just over 2,400 open PRs of which 640 are unassigned. The
last quarter saw 8146 commits by 173 committers to the HEAD branch and
357 commits by 52 committers to the 2020Q1 branch. This means the
number of PRs grew although the committer activity remained more or
less constant.

As always, people come and go. This time we welcomed Loïc Bartoletti
(lbartoletti@), Mikael Urankar (mikael@), Kyle Evans (kevans@, who is
already a src committer), and Lorenzo Salvadore (salvadore@, who we
already know for compiling these reports you are reading right now). We
said goodbye to dbn@ and theraven@, who we hope to see back in the
future.

On the infrastructure side, USES=qca was added and USES=zope was
removed. The latter was also due to it was incompatible with Python 3,
and portmgr is in the process of removing Python 2.7 from the Ports
Tree. This means that all ports that currently rely on Python 2.7 need
to be updated to work with Python 3 or be removed.

After a long period of work by multiple people, Xorg got updated from
the 1.18 to the 1.20 release series. Also, the web browsers were
updated: Firefox to version 75.0, Firefox ESR to 68.7.0, and Chromium
to 80.0.3987.149. The package manager itself got updated to version
1.13.2.

antoine@ ran 29 exp-runs during the last quarter for various updates to
KDE, poppler, pkg and build tools; and test compatibility with src
changes: removing procfs-based debugging, fixing TLS alignment, and
only including libssp_nonshared.a in libc for the i386 and Power
architectures.
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FreeBSD Graphics Team status report

Links
Project GitHub page
URL: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop

Contact: FreeBSD Graphics Team <x11@freebsd.org>
Contact: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>

The FreeBSD X11/Graphics team maintains the lower levels of the FreeBSD
graphics stack. This includes graphics drivers, graphics libraries such
as the MESA OpenGL implementation, the X.org xserver with related
libraries and applications, and Wayland with related libraries and
applications.

The biggest highlight by far during the previous quarter was the long
awaited update of xorg-server to version 1.20. After years of work by
many people, this update finally landed in the form of xorg-server
1.20.7. With this update came a couple of new things, most notably,
FreeBSD 12 and later was switched to use the udev/evdev backend by
default for handling input devices, such as mice and keyboards.
Together with this release, the OpenGL library implementation mesa was
switched to use DRI3 by default, instead of the older DRI2.

These updates caused some fallout when they first were comitted, most
notably issues with keyboards. But with help from Michael Gmelin and
others on the mailing lists, most issues were sorted fast.
Unfortunately version 304 of the nVidia graphics driver is no longer
supported as of this release.

Since this update, xorg-server has also been bumped to 1.20.8, which is
the latest upstream release.

Apart from this update, there has also been ongoing work to keep the
various drm-kmod ports and packages up to date, mostly in response to
changes in FreeBSD CURRENT and to security issues found in the Intel
i915 driver.

We have also done updates as needed to keep the graphics and input
stack up to date and working, and deprecated and removed several old
and no longer used drivers, applications and libraries.

We have also continued our regularly scheduled bi-weekly meetings.

People who are interested in helping out can find us on the
x11@FreeBSD.org mailing list, or on our gitter chat:
(https://gitter.im/FreeBSDDesktop/Lobby). We are also available in
#freebsd-xorg on EFNet.

We also have a team area on GitHub where our work repositories can be
found: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop
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Projects

Projects that span multiple categories, from the kernel and userspace
to the Ports Collection or external projects.

NFS over TLS implementation

Contact: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@freebsd.org>

In an effort to improve NFS security, an internet draft which I expect
will become and RFC soon specifies the use of TLS 1.3 to encrypt all
data traffic on a Sun RPC connection used for NFS.

Although NFS has been able to use sec=krb5p to encrypt data on the
wire, this requires a Kerberos environment and, as such, has not been
widely adopted. It also required that encryption/decryption be done in
software, since only the RPC message NFS arguments are encrypted. Since
Kernel TLS is capable of using hardware assist to improve performance
and does not require Kerberos, NFS over TLS may be more widely adopted,
once implementations are available.

Since FreeBSD's kernel TLS requires that data be in ext_pgs mbufs for
transmission, most of the work so far has been modifying the NFS code
that builds the protocol arguments to optionally use ext_pgs mbufs.
Coding changes to handle received ext_pgs mbufs has also been done,
although this may not be required by the receive kernel TLS.

The kernel RPC has also been modified to do the STARTTLS Null RPC and
to do upcalls to userland daemons that perform the
SSL_connect()/SSL_accept(), since the kernel TLS does not do this
initial handshake. So far only a self signed certificate on the server,
with no requirement for the client to have a certificate has been
implemented.

Work is still needed to be done for the case where the NFS client is
expected to have a signed certificate. In particular, it is not obvious
to me what the correct solution is for clients that do not have a fixed
IP address/DNS name. The code now is about ready for testing, but
requires that the kernel TLS be able to support receive as well as
transmit. Patches to the kernel TLS for receive are being worked on by
jhb@freebsd.org.

Once receive side kernel TLS becomes available, the code in subversion
under base/projects/nfs-over-tls will need third party testing and a
security evaluation by someone familiar with TLS.
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Import of the Kyua test framework

Links
The FreeBSD Test Suite
URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/TestSuite

Contact: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>

The FreeBSD test suite uses the Kyua test framework to run tests.

Historically Kyua has been installed from the ports collection
(devel/kyua). While this is fine for mainstream architectures, it can
pose bootstrapping issues on new architectures and package installation
is quite slow under emulation or on FPGA based systems. By including it
in the FreeBSD base system we can avoid these issues.

We hope that this inclusion will spur testing of embedded platforms and
simplify the process of testing within continuous integration systems.

We currently plan to retain the devel/kyua port to serve FreeBSD
versions without and to serve as a development version.

Sponsor: DARPA
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Linux compatibility layer update

Contact: Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

Work during this quarter focused on source code cleanup and making it
easier to debug missing functionality. There were, however, some
user-visible changes: added support for TCP_CORK as required by Nginx,
added support MAP_32BIT flag, which fixes Mono binaries from Ubuntu
Bionic, and a fix for DNS resolution with glibc newer than 2.30, which
affected CentOS 8.

The Linux Test Project tests that are being run as part of the the
FreeBSD Continuous Integration infrastructure now include the Open
POSIX test suite.

There's still a lot to do:
* There are pending reviews for patches that add extended attributes
support, and fexecve(2) syscall, and they require wrapping up and
committing
* There are over 400 failing LTP tests. Some of them are false
positives, some are easy to fix bugs, and some require adding new
system calls. Any help is welcome.

Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation
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