Bryan Steele

@canadianbryan
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AKA brynet@. I like tinkering with #OpenBSD and occasionally other Unix-like systems. In other words, not a MCP. He/Him. 🍕🐈💻🇨🇦
🍕https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
Main account:https://bsd.network/@brynet

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I could use some help, friends. I'd really appreciate sharing. 

If you can help out with the occasional pizza, that would really mean a lot to me. Monthly gifts would take care of a lot of my financial stress/anxiety as well.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url

Progress: $335 / $2500 CAD (monthly goal)

If you aren't able help with PayPal, I have an Amazon .ca wishlist with some odds & ends, computer hardware: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF?sort=custom

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brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

A guaranteed $2500 CAD a month would go a long way towards solving a lot of my problems.. sigh. 

It would allow me to spend less time worrying about food, rent, bills, and more on open source. 

I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, if any companies (or individuals) would like to help to support me so that I can focus on open source full time. Feel free to direct message or Email me.

I think it's time for some #OpenBSD #79HYPE ​ 

After ~21 years, gcc 3.x has left the building, with the last remaining platform (OpenBSD/luna88k) ported to gcc4.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/115425313813361816

Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has updated the drm graphics drivers (inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu) in #OpenBSD 7.9 to Linux 6.18.y/6.18.22 from the 6.12.y longterm support version.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116201960048161449

https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/src?q=drm&committer[]=jsg

OpenBSD now supports "Delayed hibernation" on amd64: After waiting a number of seconds (up to 24 hrs) the machine will wake from S0ix/S3 idle sleep/suspend and hibernate to disk.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116217813921273057

The OpenBSD kernel gains a new "parking mutex".. inspired by WebKit.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/115503876824188865

A long standing ACPI issue (boot delay) that has plagued several Intel Mac models has been fixed by jcs@

https://bsd.network/@brynet/115602160298028722

OpenBSD's EFI bootloader now supports loading files from the ESP, making it easier to e.g: copy & bootstrap a ramdisk kernel.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/115630978565153559

Improved support for running OpenBSD as a guest VM on Apple Silicon machines under macOS.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/115899206016337373

OpenBSD/amd64 now supports SMP on up to 255 CPUs, such as on AMD Threadripper/EYPC.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/115899248487624689

OpenBSD iwx(4) now supports additional Intel AX211 WiFi 6/6E models, as well as 160MHz channel support! 

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116210371257002339

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116319563256899912

Important security refinements to both pledge(2) and unveil(2), fixing several early design issues.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116136000669207850

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116197240853794609

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116217472157803716

Plus lots more to see in 7.9! Stay tuned! 

Bryan Steele :flan_beard: (@[email protected])

#OpenBSD/luna88k has been switched to gcc4! :flan_thumbs:​ And with that the last GCC3_ARCH is gone! Not with a bang but a whimper.. :flan_smile:​ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176124507027163&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176124650328448&w=2

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If any of my work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful in the past, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. 

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

Not great timing, I know, but I'm thinking a Intel mini PC (e.g: N150, 11th Gen i5/i7) would work for my #OpenBSD testing & hacking, Any help towards this would be greatly appreciated. 

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url

https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF?sort=custom

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I don't suppose that I have any #bsd #unix #foss #infosec friends out there willing to signal boost, by chance? ​ 

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

Mark Kettenis has added #OpenBSD/arm64 support for the new hw.blockcpu sysctl, classifying CPU types based on device-tree and ACPI CPPC information.

kettenis@ modified src/sys/arch/arm64/*: Add hw.blockcpu support for arm64. Here we classify CPU cores based on their "capacity". This a concept borrowed from the device tree standard that indicates the nominal performance of a CPU core. For ACPI machines we use similar information from ACPI's Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC). If performance is less than 30% of the fastest cores in the same we classify them as L. Between 30% and 80% we classify them as E.
And above 80% we classify them as P. The CPU capacity is communicated to userland though kstat(4).

ok deraadt@, jca@

In addition to using kstat(1) on your machines, kettenis@ tested the following machines:

  • Lenovo x13s (Snapdragon 8c): Cortex-A78C -> E + Cortex-X1C -> P
  • Rock 5B (Rockchip RK3588): Cortex-A55 -> E + Cortex-A76 -> P
  • Apple Mac mini (M2 Pro): Blizzard -> E + Avalanche -> P
  • Radxa Orion O6 (Cix CD8180): Cortex-A520 -> L + Cortex-A720 -> P

In addition to funding open source projects you use, if you can, consider extending support to the individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference. 🫶

#OpenSource #FOSS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116319158100665914

openbsd mitigates this by not having a forum

For those who may not know, #OpenBSD still runs on Motorola 88K machines, more specifically the LUNA family of 90's Unix workstations released by Japanese company OMRON. There's even SMP support (w/ weird configurations, like 3 CPUs).

https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

Largely a passion project by Kenji Aoyama as these machines are not easy to come, especially outside of Japan. It's possible to install 7.8 (or a -current snapshot, to try out Miod's 88k gcc4 port! ​) using nono, a full system emulator for LUNA machines.

https://www.pastel-flower.jp/~isaki/nono/ — (nono emulator, in OpenBSD ports/packages)