app02 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:16:55 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Driver” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/driver Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400 Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day. en-us episodic A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD JT Pennington Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day. no berkeley,freebsd,openbsd,netbsd,dragonflybsd,trueos,trident,hardenedbsd,tutorial,howto,guide,bsd,interview JT Pennington feedback@bsdnow.tv 477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures https://www.bsdnow.tv/477 58511dab-5dc9-4024-9373-30c152784856 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more. 46:57 no <p>Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more.</p> <p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br> This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a> and the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow noopener">BSDNow Patreon</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2022/9/19/mindshare-analyzing-bsd-kernels-with-binary-ninja" rel="nofollow noopener">Mindshare: Analyzing Bsd Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sharing-dual-licensed-drivers-between-linux-and-freebsd/" rel="nofollow noopener">Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://nxdomain.no/%7Epeter/better_off_with_pf.html" rel="nofollow noopener">A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://dataswamp.org/%7Esolene/2022-09-25-openbsd-reboot-syspatch.html" rel="nofollow noopener">How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.saminiir.com/gems-from-man-page-trenches/" rel="nofollow noopener">Gems from the Man Page Trenches</a></h3> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <p><a href="https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-mips-thinkpad-kind-of.html" rel="nofollow noopener">The MIPS ThinkPad</a><br> <a href="https://gitlab.com/DeaDSouL/NixGems" rel="nofollow noopener">Nix Gems</a><br> <a href="https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/running-palmos-without-palmos/" rel="nofollow noopener">Running PalmOS without PalmOS</a><br> <a href="https://mwl.io/archives/22303" rel="nofollow noopener">"OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems" draft done!</a></p> <hr> <h3>Tarsnap</h3> <ul> <li>This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/477/feedback/Brad%20-%20zfs%20and%20databases.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Brad - zfs and databases</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/477/feedback/Kevin%20-%20EMACS.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Kevin - EMACS</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/477/feedback/Michal%20-%20virtual%20OSS.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Michal - virtual OSS</a></li> </ul> <hr> <ul> <li>Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to <a href="mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv" rel="nofollow noopener">feedback@bsdnow.tv</a> ***</li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, open source, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, filesystem, ports, packages, jails, interview, analysis, kernel, crash dump, uninitialized memory, disclosure, binary ninja, driver, sharing, dual-license, packet filter, toolset, tools pf Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more.

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Headlines

Mindshare: Analyzing Bsd Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja

Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD

News Roundup

A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools

How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update

Gems from the Man Page Trenches

Beastie Bits

The MIPS ThinkPad
Nix Gems
Running PalmOS without PalmOS
"OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems" draft done!

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]]> Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more.

NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

Mindshare: Analyzing Bsd Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja

Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD

News Roundup

A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools

How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update

Gems from the Man Page Trenches

Beastie Bits

The MIPS ThinkPad
Nix Gems
Running PalmOS without PalmOS
"OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems" draft done!

Tarsnap

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]]> 457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow https://www.bsdnow.tv/457 4cb3f0eb-514d-4a26-9173-15d6eab282c0 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more 47:03 no <p>Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more</p> <p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br> This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a> and the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow noopener">BSDNow Patreon</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="http://netbsd0.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-journey-to-zfs-raidz1-with.html" rel="nofollow noopener">The journey to ZFS raidz1 with different sized disks (On NetBSD) (Wheelbarrow optional)</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/networking-basics-wifi-and-bluetooth/" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.kiratas.com/playstation-hole-in-netbsd-driver-could-allow-code-smuggling-2/" rel="nofollow noopener">Playstation: Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220519162432/https://www.kiratas.com/playstation-hole-in-netbsd-driver-could-allow-code-smuggling-2/" rel="nofollow noopener">Archive link if the page is down (no images)</a></li> <li><a href="https://hackerone.com/reports/1350653" rel="nofollow noopener">Original Announcment</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Playstation-Luecke-in-NetBSD-Treiber-koennte-Codeschmuggel-ermoeglichen-7091153.html" rel="nofollow noopener">German Article</a></li> </ul> <hr> <h3><a href="https://euroquis.nl//kde/2022/04/26/freebsd-ci.html" rel="nofollow noopener">KDE-FreeBSD CI</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://jmmv.dev/2022/05/remembering-buildtool.html" rel="nofollow noopener">Remembering Buildtool</a></h3> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@norlin.t/by-the-way-kubernetes-for-freebsd-d0ba4dab8d8e" rel="nofollow noopener">By the Way... Kubernetes for FreeBSD</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/tigersharke/FreeBSD-Games-Directory" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Games Directory</a><br> <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220516093712" rel="nofollow noopener">Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console</a></p> <hr> <h3>Tarsnap</h3> <ul> <li>This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/457/feedback/Dan%20-%20A%20couple%20things.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Dan - A couple things</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/457/feedback/Paul%20-%20BSD%20Business%20Justifications.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Paul - BSD Business Justifications</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/457/feedback/Todd%20-%20Feedback%20to%20prior%20feedback.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Todd - Feedback to prior feedback</a></li> </ul> <hr> <ul> <li>Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to <a href="mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv" rel="nofollow noopener">feedback@bsdnow.tv</a></li> </ul> <hr> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, open source, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, filesystem, interview, ports, packages, jails, raidz1, network basics, networking, wifi, bluetooth, playstation, kde, driver, continuous integration, buildtool Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more

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Headlines

The journey to ZFS raidz1 with different sized disks (On NetBSD) (Wheelbarrow optional)

FreeBSD Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth

News Roundup

Playstation: Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling

KDE-FreeBSD CI

Remembering Buildtool

Beastie Bits

By the Way... Kubernetes for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Games Directory
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console

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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

The journey to ZFS raidz1 with different sized disks (On NetBSD) (Wheelbarrow optional)

FreeBSD Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth

News Roundup

Playstation: Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling

KDE-FreeBSD CI

Remembering Buildtool

Beastie Bits

By the Way... Kubernetes for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Games Directory
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console

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]]> 453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor https://www.bsdnow.tv/453 ddb0b2b0-a944-41a5-96c2-63fc5c3b43f1 Thu, 05 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more. 45:13 no <p>Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more.</p> <p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br> This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a> and the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow noopener">BSDNow Patreon</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-your-own-freebsd-based-nas-with-zfs/" rel="nofollow noopener">Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://mveg.es/posts/writing-a-device-driver-for-unix-v6/" rel="nofollow noopener">Writing a device driver for Unix V6</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-03-29-FreeBSD-EC2-report.html" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.automationworld.com/control/article/22144694/beckhoff-hypervisor-enables-virtual-machines-for-control-applications" rel="nofollow noopener">Beckhoff has released its TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://saurvs.github.io/post/writing-netbsd-kern-mod/" rel="nofollow noopener">Writing a NetBSD kernel module</a></h3> <hr> <h2>Benedicts Git Finds</h2> <ul> <li>Projects <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/unrelentingtech/capsicumizer" rel="nofollow noopener">Run anything (like full blown GTK apps) under Capsicum</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/arata-nvm/mitnal" rel="nofollow noopener">Twitter client for UEFI</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/jarun/nnn" rel="nofollow noopener">n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Gists and Articles <ul> <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/Mostly-BSD/4d3cacc0ee2f045ed8505005fd664c6e" rel="nofollow noopener">Step-by-step instructions on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 13.0 and above</a></li> <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/koobs/e01cf8869484a095605404cd0051eb11" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD SSH Hardening</a></li> <li><a href="https://gtfobins.github.io" rel="nofollow noopener">GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems</a></li> </ul></li> </ul> <hr> <h3>Tarsnap</h3> <ul> <li>This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/453/feedback/Ben%20-%20Backing%20Up.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Ben - Backing Up</a></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/453/feedback/Ethan%20-%20Thanks.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Ethan - Thanks</a></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/453/feedback/Maxi%20%20-%20question%20about%20note%20taking.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Maxi - question about note taking</a></p> <hr> <ul> <li>Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to <a href="mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv" rel="nofollow noopener">feedback@bsdnow.tv</a> ***</li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, open source, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, filesystem, interview, ports, packages, jails, NAS, network attached storage, driver development, write device driver, driver, ec2, aws, amazon, beckhoff, twincat, bsd hypervisor, kernel module Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more.

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Headlines

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS

Writing a device driver for Unix V6

News Roundup

FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to

Beckhoff has released its TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor

Writing a NetBSD kernel module

Benedicts Git Finds

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]]> Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more.

NOTES
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Headlines

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS

Writing a device driver for Unix V6

News Roundup

FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to

Beckhoff has released its TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor

Writing a NetBSD kernel module

Benedicts Git Finds

Tarsnap

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]]> 364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind https://www.bsdnow.tv/364 7581b101-10df-4469-8e37-0ddb82f82696 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more. 46:58 no <p>FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more.</p> <p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br> This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2020/07/21/webengine.html" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>FreeBSD has a handful of Qt WebEngine-based browsers. Falkon, and Otter-Browser, and qutebrowser and probably others, too. All of them can run into issues on FreeBSD with GPU-accelerated rendering not working. Let’s look at some of the workarounds.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-nanopi-neo2/" rel="nofollow noopener">NetBSD on the Nanopi Neo2</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>The NanoPi NEO2 from FriendlyARM has been serving me well since 2018, being my test machine for OpenBSD/arm64 related things.<br> As NetBSD/evbarm finally gained support for AArch64 in NetBSD 9.0, released back in February, I decided to give it a try on this device. The board only has 512MB of RAM, and this is where NetBSD really shines. Things have become a lot easier since jmcneill@ now provides bootable ARM images for a variety of devices, including the NanoPi NEO2.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h3><a href="https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2020/07/im-back-into-grind-of-freebsds-wireless.html" rel="nofollow noopener">I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's been .. well, life. I started the ath10k port in 2015. I wasn't expecting it to take 5 years, but here we are. My life has changed quite a lot since 2015 and a lot of the things I was doing in 2015 just stopped being fun for a while.<br> But the stars have aligned and it's fun again, so here I am. </p> </blockquote> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/solaris/OverlookingSyseventadm" rel="nofollow noopener">Some thoughts on us overlooking Illumos's syseventadm</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>In a comment on my praise of ZFS on Linux's ZFS event daemon, Joshua M. Clulow noted that Illumos (and thus OmniOS) has an equivalent in syseventadm, which dates back to Solaris. I hadn't previously known about syseventadm, despite having run Solaris fileservers and OmniOS fileservers for the better part of a decade, and that gives me some tangled feelings.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h3><a href="https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/07/when-unix-learned-to-reboot2.html" rel="nofollow noopener">When Unix learned to reboot</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>Recently, a friend asked me the history of halt, and when did we have to stop with the sync / sync / sync dance before running halt or reboot. The two are related, it turns out.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=DragonFlyBSD-New-EXT2FS" rel="nofollow noopener">DragonFlyBSD Lands New EXT2/3/4 File-System Driver</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>While DragonFlyBSD has its own, original HAMMER2 file-system, for those needing to access data from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file-systems, there is a brand new "ext2fs" driver implementation for this BSD operating system.<br> DragonFlyBSD has long offered an EXT2 file-system driver (that also handles EXT3 and EXT4) while hitting their Git tree this week is a new version. The new sys/vfs/ext2fs driver, which will ultimately replace their existing sys/gnu/vfs/ext2fs driver is based on a port from FreeBSD code. As such, this driver is BSD licensed rather than GPL. But besides the more liberal license to jive with the BSD world, this new driver has various feature/functionality improvements over the prior version. However, there are some known bugs so for the time being both file-system drivers will co-exist.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-office/2020-July/005822.html" rel="nofollow noopener">LibreOffice 7.0 call for testing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/07/15/24747.html" rel="nofollow noopener">More touchpad support</a></li> </ul> <hr> <h3>Tarsnap</h3> <ul> <li>This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/364/feedback/casey%20-%20openbsd%20wirewall.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Casey - openbsd wirewall</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/364/feedback/daryl%20-%20zfs.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Daryl - zfs</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/364/feedback/raymond%20-%20hpe%20microserver.md" rel="nofollow noopener">Raymond - hpe microserver</a></p> <hr> <ul> <li>- Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to <a href="mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv" rel="nofollow noopener">feedback@bsdnow.tv</a> ***</li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, os, berkeley, software, distribution, zfs, interview, QT, WebEngine, acceleration, GPU, wireless, 802.11ac, syseventadm, reboot, sync, ext2, ext3, ext4, filesystem, driver FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more.

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FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration

FreeBSD has a handful of Qt WebEngine-based browsers. Falkon, and Otter-Browser, and qutebrowser and probably others, too. All of them can run into issues on FreeBSD with GPU-accelerated rendering not working. Let’s look at some of the workarounds.

NetBSD on the Nanopi Neo2

The NanoPi NEO2 from FriendlyARM has been serving me well since 2018, being my test machine for OpenBSD/arm64 related things.
As NetBSD/evbarm finally gained support for AArch64 in NetBSD 9.0, released back in February, I decided to give it a try on this device. The board only has 512MB of RAM, and this is where NetBSD really shines. Things have become a lot easier since jmcneill@ now provides bootable ARM images for a variety of devices, including the NanoPi NEO2.

I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac

Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's been .. well, life. I started the ath10k port in 2015. I wasn't expecting it to take 5 years, but here we are. My life has changed quite a lot since 2015 and a lot of the things I was doing in 2015 just stopped being fun for a while.
But the stars have aligned and it's fun again, so here I am.

News Roundup

Some thoughts on us overlooking Illumos's syseventadm

In a comment on my praise of ZFS on Linux's ZFS event daemon, Joshua M. Clulow noted that Illumos (and thus OmniOS) has an equivalent in syseventadm, which dates back to Solaris. I hadn't previously known about syseventadm, despite having run Solaris fileservers and OmniOS fileservers for the better part of a decade, and that gives me some tangled feelings.

When Unix learned to reboot

Recently, a friend asked me the history of halt, and when did we have to stop with the sync / sync / sync dance before running halt or reboot. The two are related, it turns out.

DragonFlyBSD Lands New EXT2/3/4 File-System Driver

While DragonFlyBSD has its own, original HAMMER2 file-system, for those needing to access data from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file-systems, there is a brand new "ext2fs" driver implementation for this BSD operating system.
DragonFlyBSD has long offered an EXT2 file-system driver (that also handles EXT3 and EXT4) while hitting their Git tree this week is a new version. The new sys/vfs/ext2fs driver, which will ultimately replace their existing sys/gnu/vfs/ext2fs driver is based on a port from FreeBSD code. As such, this driver is BSD licensed rather than GPL. But besides the more liberal license to jive with the BSD world, this new driver has various feature/functionality improvements over the prior version. However, there are some known bugs so for the time being both file-system drivers will co-exist.

Beastie Bits

Tarsnap

  • This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.

Feedback/Questions

Casey - openbsd wirewall
Daryl - zfs
Raymond - hpe microserver

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NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration

FreeBSD has a handful of Qt WebEngine-based browsers. Falkon, and Otter-Browser, and qutebrowser and probably others, too. All of them can run into issues on FreeBSD with GPU-accelerated rendering not working. Let’s look at some of the workarounds.

NetBSD on the Nanopi Neo2

The NanoPi NEO2 from FriendlyARM has been serving me well since 2018, being my test machine for OpenBSD/arm64 related things.
As NetBSD/evbarm finally gained support for AArch64 in NetBSD 9.0, released back in February, I decided to give it a try on this device. The board only has 512MB of RAM, and this is where NetBSD really shines. Things have become a lot easier since jmcneill@ now provides bootable ARM images for a variety of devices, including the NanoPi NEO2.

I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac

Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's been .. well, life. I started the ath10k port in 2015. I wasn't expecting it to take 5 years, but here we are. My life has changed quite a lot since 2015 and a lot of the things I was doing in 2015 just stopped being fun for a while.
But the stars have aligned and it's fun again, so here I am.

News Roundup

Some thoughts on us overlooking Illumos's syseventadm

In a comment on my praise of ZFS on Linux's ZFS event daemon, Joshua M. Clulow noted that Illumos (and thus OmniOS) has an equivalent in syseventadm, which dates back to Solaris. I hadn't previously known about syseventadm, despite having run Solaris fileservers and OmniOS fileservers for the better part of a decade, and that gives me some tangled feelings.

When Unix learned to reboot

Recently, a friend asked me the history of halt, and when did we have to stop with the sync / sync / sync dance before running halt or reboot. The two are related, it turns out.

DragonFlyBSD Lands New EXT2/3/4 File-System Driver

While DragonFlyBSD has its own, original HAMMER2 file-system, for those needing to access data from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file-systems, there is a brand new "ext2fs" driver implementation for this BSD operating system.
DragonFlyBSD has long offered an EXT2 file-system driver (that also handles EXT3 and EXT4) while hitting their Git tree this week is a new version. The new sys/vfs/ext2fs driver, which will ultimately replace their existing sys/gnu/vfs/ext2fs driver is based on a port from FreeBSD code. As such, this driver is BSD licensed rather than GPL. But besides the more liberal license to jive with the BSD world, this new driver has various feature/functionality improvements over the prior version. However, there are some known bugs so for the time being both file-system drivers will co-exist.

Beastie Bits

Tarsnap

  • This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.

Feedback/Questions

Casey - openbsd wirewall
Daryl - zfs
Raymond - hpe microserver

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