With
this commit
and several more, Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
upgraded -current to version 10.0.0 of LLVM:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: patrick@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/08/03 08:30:27
Log message:
Import LLVM 10.0.0 release in…
In this commit, Paul Irofti (pirofti@) added support for reading timecounters in userland without making a syscall.
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Since we reported the first bits of powerpc64 support going into the tree on 16 May, work has progressed at a steady pace, resulting in snapshots now being available for this platform.
So, if you have a POWER9 system idling around, go to your neare…
In the following
commit
(and a bunch of others), David Gwynne (dlg@) imported most of the code submitted recently by Jason A. Donenfeld and Matt Dunwoodie to allow you to use WireGuard natively on OpenBSD:
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Wesley Mouedine Assaby who runs the OpenBSD Jumpstart webpage with hints and tips for beginners about OpenBSD in general has produced a visualization of how PCs boot into OpenBSD.
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I presented a talk on how I used OpenBGPd as a control plane for my ISP.
I cover areas such as Routing fundamentals, a lightning introduction to BGP.
An interesting aspect of the design is how the OpenBSD / OpenBGPd
is used to control the routing…
Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has just committed an update to the
DRM code to the tree.
This update brings support for newer AMD and Intel graphics parts.
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 22:48:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>
To: sourc…
Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
posted to misc@
a useful summary of the state of play of FFS2
in the 6.7 release (and, to some extent, -current).
In his mail, Otto clarifies some things about the latest release:
In OpenBSD 6.7, ffs2 is the default for ne…
In a commit touching quite a few files, Theo recently renamed the installation images from installXX.fs to installXX.img:
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 11:04:29 -0600 (MDT)
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
…
The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 6.7, marking the 48th release of our favorite operating system. The announcement message and the release page both have detailed information.
These are some highlights of the improvements in the present rele…
In a set of commits to the tree on Saturday, Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) added the early beginnings of support for the 64-bit PowerPC platform:
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 11:11:14 -0600 (MDT)
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>
To: sourc…
After our article on TLS 1.3 server support in LibreSSL, we have decided to upgrade the machine running the undeadly website to newer LibreSSL.
Since earlier today the site supports TLS 1.3. Undeadly still gets an
A+ on
Qualys’
SSL Labs.
In a post to the ports@ mailing list, Landry Breuil (landry@) shared some of his notes on using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests. He made a few enhancements for Undeadly:
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In a post to tech@,
Matt Dunwoodie
announced
the availability of a
WireGuard
[VPN]
patchset for OpenBSD:
[…]
A while ago I wanted to learn more about OpenBSD development. So I
picked a project, in this case WireGuard, to develop a na…
With the following
commit,
Joel Sing (jsing@) enabled the
TLSv1.3 server code (in
LibreSSL) in -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: jsing@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/05/11 12:19:19
Modified files:
lib/libssl : ssl_locl.h
…
While many of us have been busy social distancing, OpenBSD development work
has continued.
Noteworthy things not previously reported here include:
The OpenBSD version has moved to 6.7-beta
Some 11 syscalls have been
unlocked
since the 6.6 rele…
Developer Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
has
been
working
on
support
to
boot
from
FFS2. He writes in with the below article, to give us a little insight into the challenges he faced while working on this.
FFS2 filesystem support has been in Open…
I had the pleasure of
sitting with Bob Beck
at EuroBSDCon
2018 in Bucharest and asking him some questions about the
OpenBSD Project, its approaches and some of his favourite
aspects of the Operating System and its projects. Bob
patiently outline…
We have a new p2k19 report from Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@),
who writes:
My first OpenBSD hackathon
When
p2k19
was announced, I was quite happy that it was located in Bucharest.
A quick check of flight connections, showed that there is a di…
Ken Westerback (krw@) kindly wrote in with a report
from last month’s
a2k20
hackathon in Hobart, Australia:
tl;dr — excellent coffee fuelled lots of hacking in Hobart
I started my journey to Hobart via Sydney in a state of some anxiety.
A…