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2013/10/122013/10/11

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/12

I got some PC-BSD items this week, too.

Open Source Snapshot: GhostBSD.
(Free)BSD and Dropbox.
FreeBSD finally dumped rcs.
FreeBSD’s igb(4) driver is updated to 2.4.0.
FreeBSD’s binutils now has “sup port for assembling and disassembling Intel Random Number Generator extensions“.
You can now use ‘athsurvey’ on AR5212 chipset ath(4) devices in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD branched version 11.
FreeBSD has changes contributed by… Microsoft?
PC-BSD has added a GUI version of their Life Preserver application.
PC-BSD has a new ‘pc-zmanager’ program for managing ZFS and disks.
PC-BSD has branched version 10, I think.
NetBSD runs on the iMX233/OLinuXino.
OpenBSD replaced rc4 with ChaCha20. No, I’m not sure what that means. (via)
OpenBSD now has the vmwpvs(4) driver, for VMWare paravirtualized SCSI.
OpenBSD has imported Mesa 9.2.1 and Freetype 2.5.0.1.
OpenBSD supports the AM335x EDMA3 controller.
OpenBSD supports the RTL8106E and RTL8168G/8111G networking chipsets.
Diffe-Hellman key size increased in OpenBSD. It’s from NIST Special Publication 800-57, which is unavailable as of this typing because of the stupid U.S. government shutdown.

2013/10/102013/10/08

Radeon KMS driver added

The Radeon KMS driver from FreeBSD has been imported to DragonFly by Francois Tigeot. It still has problems with ttm, but don’t let that stop you from taking advantage of it.

2013/10/072013/10/08

Here, there, everywhere for mdocml

Franco Fichtner recently received commit rights for DragonFly. This is so he could import mdocml, a OpenBSD-originating replacement for groff and man page display. Mdocml has been mentioned before on the Digest, and there’s a downloadable book. (See the more-interesting-than-it-sounds History of UNIX Manpages there too, but I digress.)

One advantage of using mdocml, as I understand it, is that groff is no longer required to view man pages. The only thing left in DragonFly that required a C++ compiler was groff. So, rebuilding could be a bit faster, and a bit less complicated.

Here’s the part that makes me happy: Changes made in DragonFly promptly made it back into NetBSD’s mdocml. Other changes rolled from DragonFly back into OpenBSD, too, and mdocml is in FreeBSD 10, though I don’t have a src change to point at right now. It all circled back around to DragonFly, too. It’s really neat to have a BSD-grown cross-BSD product.

(Incidentally, if you have a Thinkpad and keyboard issues, Franco has a patch for you to try.)

2013/10/052013/10/04

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/05

Less straight source links this week.

FreeBSD 9.2 is out.
FreeBSD no longer has GNU ar or GNU ranlib, or BIND.
FreeBSD has an Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution update. (OFED info) (helps DragonFly)
NetBSD has initial support for the OMAP1-183 board.
NetBSD has updated terminfo to 20130607.
NetBSD has imported FreeBSD’s new implementation of NFS – does not run yet.
NetBSD 6.1.2 and 6.0.3 are out.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 freeze is over, and here’s the branch announcement.
There’s some discussion of long-term support in pkgsrc, an idea I like.
EuroBSDCon 2013 presentations for OpenBSD are online.
OpenBSD now has a built-in snmp client. Undeadly has a description.
OpenBSD now has ntpctl(8), for querying ntpd.
There’s a new MaheshaBSD video on YouTube. (it’s a custom FreeBSD setup, though DragonFly versions exist too.)

Related to DragonFly: Patrick Welche updated glib2 in pkgsrc, and is interested in hearing how it works for DragonFly users. If you have pkgsrc on your system and it’s not a quarterly release, try building t.

2013/09/28

In Other BSDs for 2013/09/28

This week was relatively quiet, but also had the most cross-BSD work I’ve seen in a while. Look at the links and you’ll see.

Here’s some encryption fallout in FreeBSD.
MegaRAID Invader cards now work on FreeBSD.
OpenSSH is at version 6.3p1 in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has moved to Unbound as a BIND replacement.
FreeBSD imported a newer version of NetBSD’s readline.
NetBSD supports the AlphaStation DS15, ported from OpenBSD.
OpenBSD has updated le(4) to match NetBSD’s version.
OpenBSD has also moved to Unbound – version 1.4.21.
OpenBSD now has ldns 1.6.16.

Here’s more on Unbound, since it seems to be a trend.

2013/09/212013/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2013/09/21

Finally, a quieter week.

pfSense (which I use at work; performs great) has updated to 2.1, and now offers a ‘Gold‘ subscription program.
FreeBSD has a new iSCSI target and initiator. (World rebuild needed and again)
FreeBSD’s bxe(4) now supports the BCM57712 and BCM578XX.
FreeBSD now can build LLDB, though you have to do it on purpose.
FreeBSD’s arcmsr(4) driver for Areca hardware has been updated. (Areca supports BSD; buy them)
NetBSD has Renesas and ASIX AX88179 USB support.
NetBSD has a preliminary NVIDIA Geforce driver.
NetBSD has updated to dhcpcd-6.1.0.
NetBSD has updated to tzcode 2013e.
QNAP V200 boards all have the same MAC? Weird.
OpenBSD updated a large number of xenocara windowing parts.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 freeze is on from now to the 29th.

2013/09/142013/09/13

In Other BSDs for 2013/09/14

Barely getting this done in time for Saturday…

FreeBSD can now download firmware for Samsung drives.
FreeBSD has updated ipfilter to 5.1.2.
FreeBSD has updated to OpenPAM Nummularia.
On FreeBSD, clang means no gcc or libstdc++. (part of the switch)
FreeBSD has new Hyper-V drivers.
NetBSD has support for the ‘4G Systems XS Stick W14’.
NetBSD has updated Postfix to 2.8.15.
NetBSD has a pile of Broadcom chipset changes.
NetBSD has support for the MPL115A2 pressure sensor.
NetBSD has a start on xhci (AKA USB3) support.
OpenBSD has support for the FreeScale i.MX6 SoC.
OpenBSD enabled support for TLS/SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy.
OpenBSD 5.4 is available for pre-order.
OpenBSD used to build an MPLS network.
PC-BSD is going to start building on FreeBSD-10.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 pre-release freeze starts tomorrow.

2013/09/072013/09/05

In Other BSDs for 2013/09/07

There’s been a lot of commit activity across the BSDs, but my list doesn’t seem to reflect that. A lot of incremental work, I suppose.

FreeBSD has imported the multiqueue VirtIO driver
FreeBSD has added support for the BCM20702A0 chipset, for Bluetooth adapters.
FreeBSD can now reach single user mode with Digi i.MX53 / Wi-i.MX53 boards
FreeBSD supports Synaptics touchpad middle and extended buttons. (Breaks ABI)
FreeBSD has improved disk encryption speed with AES-NI.
FreeBSD has updated bmake to 20130904.
FreeBSD has added support for the DLINK DWA-127 wireless adapter.
NetBSD has updated to llvm/clang r189662.
Joyent has put together potential SMF support for pkgsrc.
PC-BSD has been synced with FreeBSD 9.2.
NetBSD has bare support for the Cubieboard 1 and 2.
NetBSD has updated to version 458 of less.
NetBSD has the beginnings of a Synopsys DWC2 (USB controller) driver.
OpenBSD has imported Mesa 9.2.0.
OpenBSD has added the ugold(4) temperature sensor driver.

2013/08/312013/08/30

In Other BSDs: 2013/08/31

I need to update this post during the week as I see stuff, or else I spend an hour rushing to get it all together before Satuday. I need to start watching PC-BSD src changes, too.

DiscoverBSD has a recent BSD roundup, too.
EuroBSDCon registration is 20% off but just today.
Using 6rd in OpenBSD.
FreeBSD has imported the Radeon KMS driver.
FreeBSD’s mfiutil has JOBD support.
FreeBSD has ARMv6/7 superpages support.
FreeBSD supports the PCI-E SSD in the Macbook Air. (It needs separate support?)
FreeBSD has updated support for Centrino 2200-N wireless.
FreeBSD has a speedup in madvise calls.
FreeBSD is using PCIDs on Intel chips to reduce process switch latency.
NetBSD has the start of a potential lint replacement, called ‘mint‘.
NetBSD supports the BCM57762 and BCM57765 chips, for Thunderbolt <-> Ethernet.
OpenBSD has support for more ciss(4) devices, via FreeBSD.
OpenBSD has updated to pixman 0.30.2, DejaVu Fonts 2.34, libX11 1.6.1, and xterm 296, and added ipv6-toolkit 1.4.
pkgsrc nearly has a signed packages mechanism.

2013/08/30

rum(4), run(4), and urtwn(4) added

Sascha Wildner has ported rum(4), run(4), and urtwn(4) from FreeBSD to DragonFly, to work within the not-yet-default new USB framework. This happened some days ago, but I’m just now catching up.

2013/08/24

In Other BSDs: 2013/08/24

I hope I’m catching the interesting stuff; I’m only reading the src changes.

A talk about pkgsrc at a YAPC conference.
FreeBSD has improved parallel read performance by changing how locks work.
FreeBSD has enabled VFP in QEMU. No, I don’t know what that means.
FreeBSD has upgraded to BIND 9.9.3-P2.
FreeBSD has imported NetBSD’s libexecinfo-20130822.
FreeBSD has imported OpenBSD’s vmx(4) VMWare network driver.
FreeBSD has upgraded to ACPICA 20130823.
NetBSD has added ‘multigest’, for calculating multiple digests in parallel.
NetBSD has updated to Postfix 2.9.7.
NetBSD now supports the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 Wi-Fi controller.
OpenBSD has updated a number of x* utilities in xenocara, including xserver.

2013/08/212013/08/22

Details on sysrc

Michael W. Lucas has a short article up about sysrc, a FreeBSD tool for handling rc.conf across multiple machines. This could easily be a cross-BSD tool – hint, hint.

Update: as Sascha Wildner pointed out, rcrun covers that in DragonFly. Mostly I’d like to see the same interface, then, I guess?

2013/08/102013/08/09

In Other BSDs for 2013/08/10

Definitely Saturdays for this summary. In other BSDs this week:

It’s FreeBSD, but it can apply to any BSD where a personal attribution license is used: Julian Elischer’s name comes with every iPhone.
cxgbe(4) cards can now display their temperature under FreeBSD.
ciss(4) supports additional HP RAID controllers under FreeBSD.
Bind has been updated to 9.8.5-P2 in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has initial support for the Cubieboard 2.
FreeBSD now has a USB test program.
NetBSD supports some additional ZTE modem devices.
NetBSD has cgram, a substitution-cipher solver. For amusement purposes?
NetBSD supports the Nuvoton W83795G monitoring device.
OpenBSD now supports wireless devices using the Ralink RT3060.

2013/08/08

TTM arrives for DragonFly

Francois Tigeot has ported TTM to DragonFly from FreeBSD and I think a bit from OpenBSD. All this work has led to an update in the driver porting notes.

2013/07/292013/07/28

Ansible and dports

Michael W. Lucas wrote a blog post about pkgng and Ansible on FreeBSD. Will it work on DragonFly? We already have pkgng on DragonFly in the form of dports, and Ansible… might work? Please, someone try.

2013/07/252013/07/28

In Other BSDs summary

Here’s what jumped out at me from reading source change mailing lists:

pkgsrc now has Ruby 2.0.
NetBSD now has wpa_supplicant and hostapd, and dhcpcd 6.0.3.
NetBSD supports Nanjing QinHeng Electronics devices via puc(4). No idea what that is.
NetBSD also supports Intel 8 Series SMBus devices, which I mention just because finding the right drivers for SMBus devices always frustrated me on Windows.
NetBSD’s hostname has some new options.
FreeBSD supports Coleto Creek devices: SATA, SMBus, and Watchdog. Not sure if that’s a brand name or a special type of construction. Also, AR934x and the Qualcomm Atheros DB120 development board, and the Broadcom BCM5725 network controller.
OpenBSD now has sshd supporting encrypted host keys. I can’t find an open mail archive with OpenBSD source-changes as an archived list, so I don’t seem to be able to link to it directly.

I’m going to have to set a specific day of the week aside for these.

2013/07/172013/07/18

Emulex OneConnect support added

Do you have a Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC? Well good news! Sascha Wildner ~~brought in~~ updated the oce(4) driver from FreeBSD to support Skyhawk models in DragonFly.

(My bad; looked at the wrong oce(4) commit originally and re-reported the import instead of the update.)

2013/07/162013/07/16

In other BSDs: Syn Cookies, SipHash, full-disk encryption

I made a hesitant attempt to keep an eye on other BSD source changes over the last week. I complain about needing coverage for the other BSDs, so I’ll see what I can do:

(Parts of?) full-disk encryption support in NetBSD.
esp (the SCSI board) support for NetBSD/acorn.
SipHash support in FreeBSD
SYN Cookie support in FreeBSD.

2013/06/252013/06/24

BSD, Playstation 4, and disk storage

Supposedly it’s FreeBSD 9.0 under the hood on the new Playstation 4 systems. What does this mean for FreeBSD, or driver support, or BSD in general, or what you can run on that hardware? Possibly nothing other than a vague sense of superiority.

On the other hand, this BoingBoing article makes a good point about commodity hardware and its immediate utility. It’s an effective network storage device and it doesn’t even mention FreeNAS.

2013/05/172013/05/17

DNSSEC Mastery in print, and Absolute FreeBSD 3 status

Michael W. Lucas has two bits of mostly-BSD-centric publishing news. One is that a physical version of his DNSSEC Mastery book is now available through Amazon.

The other bit is that, having just released an Absolute OpenBSD update, his Absolute FreeBSD book will not see an update… until the FreeBSD installer gets more coherent.

(If you manage DNS in any fashion, buy DNSSEC Mastery.)