On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:41 AM Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, folks. > > We are approaching October. > While I have limited time now, I want to coordinate priorities and > targets, what should we do till end of October (and due to personal > reasons, I'd better announce snapshot till 20 October or earlier or allow > someone else to do this). > > We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix. > > 1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes > https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm afraid > I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace itself doesn't > seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it is. In KVM Joyent fixed > this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox structures to store VM > registers differ and from brief overlook it has several asm functions to > store/restore Host/Base registers state. So far I don't have an idea how > convert one to another. So, this likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless > someone skillful dig into this. > > 2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, it > fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious issue, > because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader. > > 3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 . Updated > GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our Nimbus theme > based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard there were issues with > new mate-terminal. > Michal, do you have some comments here? > > 4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll dig > into this shortly. > > Does somebody have another targets/comments? > > Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI > developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish feature A > before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that". > Hi Alexander, I'll be busy as well and my skills are not up to tasks #1 or #2... the only tracks I can pursue for now are: 1) fixing pkg and gfx-drm components so that we can migrate userland to gcc-8 before or after the snapshot. 2) pushing Firefox 60esr 3) updating Xorg to latest 4) fixing openmpi which has been broken before summer If I have time to fix audacity then we can also update ffmpeg and vlc. I had some fixes for drm/i915 but my Intel box died 4 months ago so this is on hold until I can replace it. Kind regards, Aurélien > > Best regards, > Alexander Pyhalov, > system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department > > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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