Dan Cross is looking to set up a hardware time service on DragonFly. It worked out, and there’s a patch coming to support this.
If you’ve had trouble with the touchpad on your laptop, this recent update may help. Note that the commit lists some config changes needed to take advantage of the new features.
iwm(4) on DragonFly has been updated, mostly with patches from the FreeBSD version of the network driver.
The Realtek E2600 – “Killer Ethernet Adapter” – is now supported in DragonFly. Or it’s an Intel product? I’m not sure.
If you have a TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 wireless adapter, you are in luck.
This is mostly an ID change, but the Mercusys MW150US USB wifi adapter is now supported in DragonFly.
If you are running a headless DragonFly system, you may find this new ‘ifexists’ option for ttys helpful.
I may have missed this if it’s been committed, but if you have a Mercusys MW150US, aka a RealTek USB wifi dongle, there’s a patch to support it in Dragonfly.
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.
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 are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.
It’s not possible right now, but there’s people looking to implement it.
When you are setting up a DragonFly machine on Hetzner, pay attention to this bug report for dhcp setup. The short answer is “use dhcpcd”.
You can now set a description for a network interface on DragonFly. Don’t use ETH0, please.
If you are using AMD graphics on DragonFly, Aaron LI’s “how I set this up” post may be useful to you.
If you have a WhiskeyLake Intel CPU, the i915 driver on DragonFly now recognizes it for hardware acceleration. This will be in the upcoming release.
If you have a NVMe disk that happens to let’s say report inaccurate capabilities (i.e. lie cause it was built cheap), the NVMe driver in DragonFly can now attempt to survive the surprise.
DragonFly and Hyper-V’s virtual disk support do not appear to co-operate well, according to this bug report. Anyone have a Hyper-V host where they can confirm?
The amdgpu driver, equivalent to Linux 4.19, has been committed along with supporting changes in ttm. Credit goes to Sergey Zigachev, Francois Tigeot, and Matthew Dillon for the work. The module is now built by default in bleeding edge DragonFly. Note the amdgpu commit message lists some options that need to be set.
Yep, it’s probably there depending on your chipset.