BSD: DragonFly, LLVM, and Kernel Syspatches
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Next DFly release will have an initial HAMMER2 implementation
The next DragonFly release (probably in September some time) will have an initial HAMMER2 implementation. It WILL be considered experimental and won't be an installer option yet. This initial release will only have single-image support operational plus basic features. It will have live dedup (for cp's), compression, fast recovery, snapshot, and boot support out of the gate.
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Next DragonFlyBSD Release Will Offer Experimental HAMMER2
After the HAMMER2 file-system was announced back in 2012, the next DragonFlyBSD release likely to be released in September will offer experimental support for this next-generation HAMMER file-system.
A few days back I reported on HAMMER2 looking like it was getting ready for its debut and DragonFlyBSD/HAMMER lead developer Matthew Dillon has now announced it will indeed be an experimental feature in the next release of this BSD operating system.
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Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 Now Supported By LLVM
ARM's latest big.LITTLE cores are now supported by LLVM, the Cortex A75 and A55.
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RISC-V Support Continues Advancing For LLVM
For those interested in the RISC-V open-source, royalty-free RISC-V instruction set architecture, the LLVM compiler support for it continues advancing.
Alex Bradbury gas written a status update concerning the RISC-V LLVM support. At the moment the code remains out-of-tree for all the active development work. With that code, most of the GCC torture suite can compile for RV32I.
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Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL
[...] the groundwork is done for having syspatch update only the kernel object files that have changed.
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