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This week on the show we interview Wendell from Level1Techs, cover Google Summer of Code on the different BSD projects, cover YubiKey usage, dive into how NICs work &

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Google summer of code for BSDs

• FreeBSD

• FreeBSD's existing list of GSoC Ideas for potential students

  • FreeBSD/Xen: import the grant-table bus_dma(9) handlers from OpenBSD
  • Add support for usbdump file-format to wireshark and vusb-analyzer
  • Write a new boot environment manager
  • Basic smoke test of all base utilities
  • Port OpenBSD's pf testing framework and tests
  • Userspace Address Space Annotation
  • zstandard integration in libstand
  • Replace mergesort implementation
  • Test Kload (kexec for FreeBSD)
  • Kernel fuzzing suite
  • Integrate MFSBSD into the release building tools
  • NVMe controller emulation for bhyve
  • Verification of bhyve's instruction emulation
  • VGA emulation improvements for bhyve
  • audit framework test suite
  • Add more FreeBSD testing to Xen osstest
  • Lua in bootloader
  • POSIX compliance testing framework
  • coreclr: add Microsoft's coreclr and corefx to the Ports tree.

• NetBSD

  • Kernel-level projects
  • Medium
  • ISDN NT support and Asterisk integration
  • LED/LCD Generic API
  • NetBSD/azure -- Bringing NetBSD to Microsoft Azure
  • OpenCrypto swcrypto(4) enhancements
  • Scalable entropy gathering
  • Userland PCI drivers
  • Hard
  • Real asynchronous I/O
  • Parallelize page queues
  • Tickless NetBSD with high-resolution timers
  • Userland projects
  • Easy
  • Inetd enhancements -- Add new features to inetd
  • Curses library automated testing
  • Medium
  • Make Anita support additional virtual machine systems
  • Create an SQL backend and statistics/query page for ATF test results
  • Light weight precision user level time reading
  • Query optimizer for find(1)
  • Port launchd
  • Secure-PLT - supporting RELRO binaries
  • Sysinst alternative interface
  • Hard
  • Verification tool for NetBSD32
  • pkgsrc projects
  • Easy
  • Version control config files
  • Spawn support in pkgsrc tools
  • Authentication server meta-package
  • Medium
  • pkgin improvements
  • Unify standard installation tasks
  • Hard
  • Add dependency information to binary packages
  • Tool to find dependencies precisely

• LLVM

  • Fuzzing the Bitcode reader

Description of the project: The optimizer is 25-30% slower when debug info are enabled, it'd be nice to track all the places where we don't do a good job about ignoring them!

• Extend clang AST to provide information for the type as written in template instantiations.

Description of the project: When instantiating a template, the template arguments are canonicalized b