Need a new top
top(1) is no longer in DragonFly contrib/ directory, for a number of reasons. It’s still present in the system, of course, and I think needs to have someone re-add as a vendor branch – a relatively easy project for a volunteer, hint hint.
From Zero to NVMM
Six months ago, I told myself I would write a small hypervisor for an old x86
AMD CPU I had. Just to learn more about virtualization, and see how far I could
go alone on my spare time. Today, it turns out that I\'ve gone as far as
implementing a full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD. I\'d like
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t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerbac...
Kenneth R Westerback (krw@) wrote in with a
report on his recent participation in
t2k19:
Rule 1 of Taipei travel -- nobody knows what an EasyCard is.
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Callout debugging in DragonFly
There’s some code changes for callout, where the actual lines of code that trigger it are stored in the callout structure. It’s a little thing, but it’s a big thing if you need it.
Converting thin jails to thick jails
I have been using ezjail since at least 2008 (see earlier blog post). A few years ago, I started deploying iocage on new servers. About three months ago, I starting converting systems from ezjail to iocage.
When I converted my first system, I found that the existing documentation for conversion was incomplete. Specifically, symlinks were a p [...]
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the h...
Fresh from the t2k19 hackathon comes a report from Anthony J. Bentley (bentley@), who writes:
Seeing an Asia hackathon coming up was pretty exciting; I’d never been there before. I spent a month or so preparing by getting through the more mundane things in my backlog, mostly new ports and updates. That left my time in Taipei open (Read m [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/04/07
Some old-school RPG and miniatures links mixed in this week.
Modder Superior: The many free descendants of Doom.
Opinion: We Built A Broken Internet. Now We Need To Burn It To The Ground. Complicated systems replicate the social structure of the groups that build them. (via)
OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly. (via)
Ampere (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06
Lots of BUG news this week; thank you all for the leads on groups to watch.
Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019. Note the meeting has been moved up a week.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella.
April 9th Meetup. ChiBUG.
Rusted ravens: Ravenports march 2019 status update. There’s some DragonFly stuff in there (Read more...)
BSD Now 292: AsiaBSDCon 2019
BSD Now 292 has a nice recap from attending AsiaBSDCon 2019, along with the normal news roundup. I advise everyone to go to a BSD convention if possible; they are always fun.
Continuation of signal semantics impr...
Over the past month I\'ve finally managed to correct masking semantics of crash signals
(SIGSEGV, SIGTRAP, SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGBUS).
Additionally I\'ve fixed masking semantics in forks(2) and vforks(2) (they trigger a crash signal SIGTRAP).
There is remaining work in signal semantics for other types of events (mainly thread related).
The cover [...]
‘gpt show’ improvements
The show subcommand for gpt(8) has had some improvements including a way to connect it to the device UUID; I link to it cause depending on the age of your machine, you may have never even needed to use gpt yet.
NYCBUG tonight: Verification As Code ...
“Verification As Code of Infrastructure As Code” is being presented tonight at 6:45 PM at NYCBUG by Raul Cuza. Go, if you are near.
ixgbe(4) updates
If you are so lucky as to have an ixgbe(4) card, the version 3.3.6 driver (from Intel) are in DragonFly.
Note that I’ve managed to catch up to March commits! There’s been a lot.
LLDB/LLVM report for March 2019
Upstream describes LLDB as a next generation, high-performance debugger.
It is built on top of LLVM/Clang toolchain, and features great
integration with it. At the moment, it primarily supports debugging C,
C++ and ObjC code, and there is interest in extending it to more
languages.
Originally, LLDB was ported to NetBSD by Kamil Rytarowski. [...]
Unrelated: GPS Rollover soon
Unrelated to BSD: GPS rollover is happening a few days from now. This affects most people very little, and a few people a lot, but I mention it also to make you think about the systems that underpin our technology.
Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] Interim suppor...
Dear FreeBSD community,
In November, the FreeBSD Core Team announced that it was considering
changes to the support policy for the stable/12 branch. After
discussions with different affected parties, it was determined that more
time is required for the community to adjust. Thus, no major changes
will occur to the stable/12 branch; it will [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/03/31
This is a compact list, but there’s plenty to see.
NSA-B-GONE, a hardware kill switch for audio and video.
UUCP Manifesto. (via)
PoC||GTFO Volume 0x19, PDF. I read it for the pictures. (via)
Endlessh: an SSH Tarpit. (via)
The Squeal of Data.
A Map of the Internet from May (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/30
A reminder: tell me about bugs.
If you missed the most recent NYCBUG meeting, here’s the video: Maintaining qmail in 2019 by Amitai Schleier. (thanks, bsdtv)
Next NYCBUG meeting, in a few days: Verification As Code of Infrastructure As Code. I’ll post a reminder.
Removing PF. NetBSD. (via)
OpenBSD testing wiki. ( (Read more. [...]
