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VMM Accelerator support for QEMU

This project aims to add VMM acceleration support to QEMU on FreeBSD, bridging the gap between QEMU’s userspace emulation and FreeBSD’s kernel-based...

Topics:apiaibackend

Testing & CI Integration for Rust FreeBSD Device Drivers

This project addresses the lack of structured testing and CI support for Rust kernel modules in FreeBSD. The previous work of many students has...

Topics:aiui

Full Disk Administration Tool for FreeBSD

FreeBSD currently lacks a tool to manage partitions and manipulate file systems like GParted does in Linux. The proposed project aims to use sade, a...

Topics:aiuiux

Adding QCOW2 compressed image support to mkimg(1)

mkimg(1), a FreeBSD tool used for creating disk images in various formats, currently lacks support for creating compressed QCOW2 images. In this...

Sockstat UI Improvements

Problem Statement: Sockstat is a useful FreeBSD utility for displaying active sockets, but its current output format is rigid and lacks flexibility....

Topics:mlaiui
advanced

ACPI Initialization in Loader With Lua Bindings

Intel™’s Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an industry standard specification that revolutionized power management by putting it...

Topics:iosapimlai

Speed up the FreeBSD boot process

This proposal aims to accelerate FreeBSD’s boot process by using the TSLOG framework to identify and target specific delays. Initial profiling...

Topics:aiux
beginner

WiFi Management UI

This project aims to build a CLI and TUI utility for easy WiFi and network management on the FreeBSD operating system. The base features for...

Topics:aiui

Implement Journaling for FreeBSD's ext3/4

This project aims to implement Linux-compatible journaling within FreeBSD's ext2fs filesystem driver to address its current lack of journaling...

Topics:aiux
advanced

FreeBSD Power Profiling Tool

FreeBSD currently lacks granular power profiling tools, offering only whole-system statistics via ACPI. This makes identifying power-hungry processes...

Topics:aiux

mac_do(4) and mdo(1) improvements

The FreeBSD mac_do(4) and mdo(1) utilities enable controlled transitions of user and group credentials without relying on inherently risky setuid...

Topics:aiui

Port FreeBSD to QEMU microvm

QEMU microvm is a lightweight virtual machine environment designed to run operating systems quickly with few hardware dependencies. This project aims...

Topics:aiui

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