Here’s the notes, for future reference. It’s not hard, but it happens rarely enough I don’t remember the steps.
Tomohiro Kusumi’s offline HAMMER2 support continues, with ‘setcheck’ (check code) and ‘setcomp’ (compression type) support. See the hammer2(8) man page for what those options do.
You can now create, delete, and snapshot PFS on HAMMER2 even when the drive isn’t mounted; Tomohiro has added offline support.
the nvme(4) driver now prints a detailed message about I/O errors. It’s great that it does that, hope you never see it.
You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted. There’s also an emergency mode, though I’m not clear on when you’d invoke it.
For some reason smbios device support always gave me trouble on every laptop I worked on for the 2000s. So, this support for smbios identification on EFI-only boots is good news to me.
If you absolutely, must shut up your console, kern.kprintf_logging=0.
backlight, both the generic backlight driver and control tool, has been ported to DragonFly.
TeX Live 2023 is available on DragonFly.
There’s a new DragonFly mirror in Portugal, noted on the mirrors page.
DragonFly now has pvscsi(4), a virtual SCSI driver.
The random number generator method chacha20 has been ported from FreeBSD to DragonFly.
I did not know that /usr/src/stand is where /boot comes from. Now we both know.
Some tips on creating/booting a read-only DragonFly system.
Interpreted through a related commit: DragonFly might have a paravirtual SCSI driver soon?
A short explainer on dsynth(1) options.
Adventure(6) the original and Colossal Cave the remake 50 years later.
The installer should always take care of this for you, but if for some reason you need it: formatting a disk with gpt.