DragonFlyBSD - Task List

DragonFly currently lacks support for the newer types of ATA controllers currently use in the market, i.e. SATA controllers. The code is also not 64-bit clean which will need to be done for making the code work cleanly on 64-bit architectures like AMD64, Itanium etc. The ATA subsystem that will emerge from this effort will be a mix-breed of FreeBSD's ATAng and old-ATA.

The mailing list archive interface is to be setup so that developers and interested parties can lookup old messages. Currently setting up the hypermail and mhonarc on leaf.dragonflybsd.org to evaluate results for each and whichever works well will be the prime candidate for the WWW.

Quite a few drivers in DragonFly have lingering PCI and ISA pre-newbus compatibility cruft which needs to be removed to make the drivers work cleanly on other platforms. At the same time, a need to bring in BusDMA updates from other BSD camps is equally important. The use of BusDMA will allow the drivers to be used on 64-bit platforms.

The DragonFly WWW site is seriously in need of some revamp. The work that I and Justin did on it was just a temporary stop gap. The layout needs to be thought out completely so that we support it for printer-friendly viewing, and other fancy stuff. We can probably borrow ideas from the Apache Foundation WWW site. The WWW site should make use of XML toolkit and move away from SGML stuff which is currently used on FreeBSD's WWW site framework.

I have the modified Perl CGI scripts from FreeBSD.ORG which were acquired from someone, and Matt has OK'ed Perl usage on the WWW site. It just needs to be placed on the website. This will probably be finished after putting the new layout.

The current PCI subsystem in DragonFly has some major deficiencies with regard to platform issues. The initialisation and the autoconfig code heavily relies on either a properly setup PCI-BIOS or ACPI to fetch and configure IO mappings, memory mappings and interrupt routing. Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD have much better support for "native" configurations.