FreeBSD git weekly: 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-23

Introduction

This is a display of mostly-automatically-classified git commits from 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-23.

This report is still in progress.

Table of contents and commits per category:

Highlighted commits Expand section Collapse section

For extra visibility, these are copies of commits found in other sections. Most (if not all) come from the commit message containing "Relnotes:", or commits modifying UPDATING.

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Userland programs Expand section Collapse section

Commits about commands found in man section 1 (other than networking).

Our buffer is half a megabyte, but we are only initializing the first
two bytes.  Switching from static to dynamic initialization moves it
from .data to .bss, greatly reducing the size of the binary.

Fixes:          https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=cf74b63d61b4 ("yes: Completely overengineer")
MFC after:      1 week
Sponsored by:   Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by:    kevans
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58890

Documentation Expand section Collapse section

Man pages, release notes, etc.

Standardize driver manuals on the style used for 12 years in vt(4).
This brings SYNOPSIS across all FreeBSD manual sections into harmony
of meaning where where SYNOPSIS lists available options, and does not
contain prose. Adjust mdoc(7) to reflect the established convention.

Reviewed by:    jhb
Discussed with: arch@ (marc.info/?l=freebsd-arch&m=176782215606871)
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54586

Hardware support Expand section Collapse section

Hardware drivers and architecture-specific code.

T2, T1, and some pre-T1 Macs advertise a legacy PIO
range in the SMC ACPI _CRS alongside a live MMIO window, but the
silicon behind the PIO range is bogus.

Try MMIO first, validate via LDKN >= 2, fall back to PIO if that
fails or no MMIO resource is present. Drop "(T2)" from the backend
message since MMIO isn't T2-exclusive.

MFC: 1 week
Reviewed by:    ngie
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58839

The problem observed on X550 adapters with 2.5 and 5 Gbps speeds
negotiation on some switches is not affecting E610 adapters.
Remove workaround, which omitted those speeds in the list
of initially advertised speeds and advertise all speeds
supported by adapter.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Galazka <krzysztof.galazka@intel.com>

Reviewed by:    kbowling
Tested by:      Mateusz Moga <mateusz.moga@intel.com>
MFC after:      1 week
Sponsored by:   Intel Corporation
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57339

Two additional subdevice IDs were introduced
to distinguish between adapters with and without
manageability over USB support.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Galazka <krzysztof.galazka@intel.com>

Reviewed by:    erj
Tested by:      Mateusz Moga <mateusz.moga@intel.com>
MFC after:      1 week
Sponsored by:   Intel Corporation
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57337

Networking Expand section Collapse section

Network-related commands, library, and kernel.

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System administration Expand section Collapse section

Stuff in man section 8 (other than networking).

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Libraries Expand section Collapse section

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Filesystems Expand section Collapse section

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Kernel Expand section Collapse section

Kernel stuff (other than networking, filesystems, and drivers).

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Build system Expand section Collapse section

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Internal organizational stuff Expand section Collapse section

And clean up luacheck warnings.

Sponsored by:   Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48950

Testing Expand section Collapse section

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Style, typos, and comments Expand section Collapse section

These could go in other categories, but it's more clear if they're here instead.

- s/uneccessarily/unnecessarily/

Obtained from:  NetBSD
MFC after:      3 days

- s/modifing/modifying/

MFC after:      3 days

- s/errornous/erroneous/

MFC after:      3 days

- s/predifined/predefined/

MFC after:      3 days

- s/modifing/modifying/

MFC after:      3 days

- s/modifing/modifying/

MFC after:      3 days

- s/varaiables/variables/

MFC after:      3 days

- s/staring/starting/

MFC after:      5 days

Contrib code Expand section Collapse section

Release notes at https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_53_3.html.

Obtained from:  https://www.sqlite.org/2026/sqlite-autoconf-3530300.tar.gz

MFC after:      2 weeks

Merge commit 'e698feec080925c6cffa9ec31be884daa5cea536'

Reverted commits Expand section Collapse section

This reverts commit 45645518ea19ccb4761aee3a525aab2f323d37d4.

Although this changed looks like it should just be a harmless change to
bookkeeping, it turns out that it changes the termination condition of
the initial device scan, resulting in it never finishing. This causes
the boot to hang forever coming up. Since I don't have good access to
hardware, I'm reverting until the exact details can be sorted out.

Reported by: Edward Scroop
Sponsored by: Netflix
MFC After: 1 week

Unclassified commits Expand section Collapse section

Not classified automatically, and waiting for manual attention.

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Technical notes

Dates:

• The dates are "approximate" because git has no record of exactly when each commit was added. The "author date" and "commit date" are text fields controlled by each committer, not the actual date the commit reaches cgit.freebsd.org/src. Git accurately records the order of commits, but not their dates.

Automatic grouping:

• "Commit & revert pair" groups were automatically grouped when a commit's (full) message contained

  This reverts commit \\b([0-9a-fA-F]{40})\\b

  and the hash was found in this week's commits.
• "Commit group #" groups were automatically grouped when 3 or more consecutive commits by the same author had the same category and summary prefix.

Automatic categories:

• Commits were (mostly) automatically classified based on regex pattern-matching on the commit's modified files, summary, or the whole commit message. The goal is to have the system automatically classify 95% of the commits, with 95% accuracy; then we'll manually check the results and fix the incorrectly-classified and unclassified commits.

Source code:

• https://github.com/Tarsnap/freebsd-git-weekly