[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on FreeBSD News

[Dr. Rich Murphey]

Asterisk on FreeBSD News

CURRENTLY:

Asterisk and libpri in Asterisk-current (CVS
head) build and run on FreeBSD 5.2.1.

The last major change (support for multiple
CPUs) has been incorporated into
Asterisk-current.  Asterisk should now be
thread safe on FreeBSD and testing on dual
CPUs has just begun, thanks to Chris Stenton
[Thanks Chris!]

Zapata and zaptel in Asterisk-current have
not yet been ported.  The zaptel driver has
been enhanced significantly since the 0.9.0
version present in FreeBSD's ports.  So, the
Asterisk application will not build or run
with FreeBSD's zaptel 0.9.0 as it stands.

CHANGES THIS WEEK:

We widened support for flavors of FreeBSD and
OpenBSD.  Between Olle Johansson, Rich Neese
and I, we're working on:

- FreeBSD 4.9, 5.2.1 and -current, as well as
- OpenBSD 3.5.

Work has begun on merging FreeBSD support
into the zaptel driver in Asterisk-current.
Maxim Sobolev, the maintainer of FreeBSD's
zaptel port, wants to work together on it,
and Mark Spencer supports the goal of FreeBSD
zaptel support in Asterisk CVS.  The most
important criteria for achieving this is to
avoid *any* diminished performance on Linux.

WHAT'S NEXT:

Rich Neese is leading the effort for FreeBSD
support for *all* bundled modules and
features including:

- OpenH323
- SCCP/Skinny
- Speex and other codecs
- Conferencing
- Spandsp
- Fax app
- Festival
- Paging and Intercom
- Calling card app
- Postgres

We intend to continue to integrate support
for the FreeBSD ports so that installation of
necessary 3rd party packages is taken care of
automatically.

We continue to focus on getting *BSD changes
accepted into Asterisk-current CVS current
rather than distributing patches or snapshots
for testing.

This means waiting longer for the code to be
available for testing, but achieving
stability sooner for FreeBSD in
Asterisk-current in the long run, since
testing will focus on Asterisk-current, where
it belongs.  This was once a criteria for the
FreeBSD zaptel bounty, so we hope that this
is what the community wants.

1-713-218-7616 (enum)
Rich Murphey