Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.
- OpenBSD (U)EFI bootloader howto. (via)
- System XVI: A replacement for systemd. (via)
- Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials. (via)
- The FreeBSD Journal Reaches New Milestone.
- BSDCam 2015 Trip Report: Mariusz Zaborski.
OPNsense 15.7.12 Released. OPNsense 15.7.13 Released.-
OpenBSD GPT support enabled.
- Moving to FreeBSD. (via)
- FreshBSD v4: beta version of the commit log search engine. (via)
- Looking for a laptop with a good CPU and solid out of the box OpenBSD experience.
- The pkgsrc-2015Q3 freeze has started,
- BSD News for 2015/09/14.
One thing not being talked about a lot is the ongoing work to free more of the OpenBSD kernel from biglock.
“Shared Reference Pointers (SRPs) allows concurrent access to a data structure by multiple cpus
while avoiding interlocking cpu opcodes. it manages its own reference
counts and the garbage collection of those data structure to avoid
use after frees. Internally srp is a twisted version of hazard pointers, which are
a relative of RCU.”
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/sys/srp.h