SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

Hello all, my name is Gábor Kövesdán. I'm a Hungarian student and I'll be working on a BSD-licensed libiconv implementation for FreeBSD during this year's Summer of Code program. It'll be based on NetBSD's Citrus iconv but there is a lot to do besides porting. My mentor is Xin Li. So far, I've

Using bus_dma(9)

I'm currently trying to port some code that uses bus_dma(9) from OpenBSD to FreeBSD and am having some difficulties in following the way bus_dma is intended to be used on FreeBSD (and how it differs from Net/OpenBSD). Other than the man page and existing FreeBSD drivers, I am unable to locate any

SoC 2009: Improving ext2fs and making it GPL free

Hi, I'm Aditya Sarawgi from India. I will be working on FreeBSD's ext2fs as a part of this year's summer of code program. I will be improving the current implementation and I will also rewrite parts of ext2fs under GPL. My mentor is Ulf Lilleengen. For more details you can visit