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FreeBSD Status Report: First Quarter 2024


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First steps were taken by experimenting with existing frameworks (i.e. s6rc work by Jan Bramkamp) and eventually — through discussions in the weekly bhyve production user’s calls (organized by Michael Dexter) — this led to a proof-of-concept implementation of "vmstated". Last year the CHERI project once again found a need for system call separation in a new library-based compartmentalization framework in CheriBSD so I rebuilt the patch from scratch, committing dozens of libc cleanups along the way. Improve Dmitry Salychev’s (dsl) initial SFF/SFP code, prototyping a bus similar to MII for SFP with the hope that with more work it can grow into a larger, general FreeBSD framework and hooked it up to DPMAC.

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