Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
@brynet.ca
AKA brynet@. Canadian 🇨🇦. I like tinkering with OpenBSD and occasionally other Unix-like systems. In other words, not a MCP. He/Him. hacker^Wslacker. @canadianbryan previously.
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
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· Oct 1
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Hope my American friends have a Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
p.s: Thanksgiving was last month.
p.p.s: It's a long-standing, and totally not made up, tradition to send a Canadian a pizza on this day..
p.s: Thanksgiving was last month.
p.p.s: It's a long-standing, and totally not made up, tradition to send a Canadian a pizza on this day..
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Hope my American friends have a Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
p.s: Thanksgiving was last month.
p.p.s: It's a long-standing, and totally not made up, tradition to send a Canadian a pizza on this day..
p.s: Thanksgiving was last month.
p.p.s: It's a long-standing, and totally not made up, tradition to send a Canadian a pizza on this day..
*Phew* bills paid... and now I'm broke again.
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
*Phew* bills paid... and now I'm broke again.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Good news! 😊
joshua stein (jcs@) has root caused the long standing ACPI issue (boot delay) that have plagued several Intel Mac models.
It is now fixed in #OpenBSD -current! 😎
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
joshua stein (jcs@) has root caused the long standing ACPI issue (boot delay) that have plagued several Intel Mac models.
It is now fixed in #OpenBSD -current! 😎
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Good news! 😊
joshua stein (jcs@) has root caused the long standing ACPI issue (boot delay) that have plagued several Intel Mac models.
It is now fixed in #OpenBSD -current! 😎
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
joshua stein (jcs@) has root caused the long standing ACPI issue (boot delay) that have plagued several Intel Mac models.
It is now fixed in #OpenBSD -current! 😎
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Call for testing from Stefan Sperling, baby steps toward WPA3 support in #OpenBSD, testing required for initial support for PMF (Protected management frames) in iwm, iwx, and qwx drivers.
Made possible through sponsorship by NLnet Foundation's NGI0 Commons Fund.
Made possible through sponsorship by NLnet Foundation's NGI0 Commons Fund.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Call for testing from Stefan Sperling, baby steps toward WPA3 support in #OpenBSD, testing required for initial support for PMF (Protected management frames) in iwm, iwx, and qwx drivers.
Made possible through sponsorship by NLnet Foundation's NGI0 Commons Fund.
Made possible through sponsorship by NLnet Foundation's NGI0 Commons Fund.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
The rpki-client project needs financial support www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #rpkiclient #routing #security #networking #bgp #rpki #pki #freesoftware #libresoftware
The rpki-client project needs financial support
www.undeadly.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The rpki-client project needs financial support www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #rpkiclient #routing #security #networking #bgp #rpki #pki #freesoftware #libresoftware
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
The Call for Papers period for both #AsiaBSDCon and #BSDCan are open, until end of November for AsiaBSDCon, until Jan 17 for BSDCan.
If you can, submit!
Or read "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... for more info #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD
If you can, submit!
Or read "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... for more info #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD
What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!
nxdomain.no
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Call for Papers period for both #AsiaBSDCon and #BSDCan are open, until end of November for AsiaBSDCon, until Jan 17 for BSDCan.
If you can, submit!
Or read "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... for more info #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD
If you can, submit!
Or read "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... for more info #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD
Heads up for #OpenBSD 7.8 users (especially desktop), the recent 006_libunwind syspatch restores a local performance optimization lost in the LLVM 19 merge.
"Prompted by robert@ [...] a runtime of an executed macro of 5 minutes in libreoffice.
"With this the execution is reduced to 58 seconds."
"Prompted by robert@ [...] a runtime of an executed macro of 5 minutes in libreoffice.
"With this the execution is reduced to 58 seconds."
OpenBSD 7.8 Errata
the OpenBSD errata page
www.openbsd.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Heads up for #OpenBSD 7.8 users (especially desktop), the recent 006_libunwind syspatch restores a local performance optimization lost in the LLVM 19 merge.
"Prompted by robert@ [...] a runtime of an executed macro of 5 minutes in libreoffice.
"With this the execution is reduced to 58 seconds."
"Prompted by robert@ [...] a runtime of an executed macro of 5 minutes in libreoffice.
"With this the execution is reduced to 58 seconds."
7.8 release packages are now ready for OpenBSD/riscv64.
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Release packages are still pending for OpenBSD/armv7 (32-bit arm) & OpenBSD/macppc (32-bit powerpc) as these architectures are slow to build. 👍
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Release packages are still pending for OpenBSD/armv7 (32-bit arm) & OpenBSD/macppc (32-bit powerpc) as these architectures are slow to build. 👍
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Heads up for late model Intel MacBook owners, there's a patch from jcs@ on tech@ porting the existing Apple Silicon SPI HID keyboard driver to OpenBSD/amd64.
Support for the Intel SPI controller was already committed for this.
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Support for the Intel SPI controller was already committed for this.
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
'aplhidev: enable on amd64, add keyboard backlight support' - MARC
marc.info
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Heads up for late model Intel MacBook owners, there's a patch from jcs@ on tech@ porting the existing Apple Silicon SPI HID keyboard driver to OpenBSD/amd64.
Support for the Intel SPI controller was already committed for this.
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Support for the Intel SPI controller was already committed for this.
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
7.8 release packages are now ready for OpenBSD/riscv64.
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Release packages are still pending for OpenBSD/armv7 (32-bit arm) & OpenBSD/macppc (32-bit powerpc) as these architectures are slow to build. 👍
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
Release packages are still pending for OpenBSD/armv7 (32-bit arm) & OpenBSD/macppc (32-bit powerpc) as these architectures are slow to build. 👍
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
tomorrow's my birthday.. just sayin'
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
tomorrow's my birthday.. just sayin'
Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers are having an amazing time in Coimbra, Portugal this week at the #h2k25 #hackathon! 🐡
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers are having an amazing time in Coimbra, Portugal this week at the #h2k25 #hackathon! 🐡
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and links therein for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
www.bsdcan.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and links therein for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd
#OpenBSD kernel mutexes now borrows an idea from... WebKit? 🤔
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
webkit.org/blog/6161/lo...
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
webkit.org/blog/6161/lo...
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#OpenBSD kernel mutexes now borrows an idea from... WebKit? 🤔
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
webkit.org/blog/6161/lo...
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
webkit.org/blog/6161/lo...
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #chromium #chrome #iridium #vaapi #video #current
In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support
www.undeadly.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
OpenBSD -current now has initial support for USB4 controllers, nhi(4), but so far just to poke it so modern AMD machines actually enter lower power states (S0ix).
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
OpenBSD -current has a new driver for AMD machines, amdpmc(4), similar to intelpmc(4), for power management control needed to enter even lower power idle states during suspend-to-idle (S0i), which #OpenBSD has began supporting since 7.6.
Looks like there's some additional power savings for #OpenBSD's new suspend-to-idle support, thanks to Mark Kettenis! 😎
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
OpenBSD -current now has initial support for USB4 controllers, nhi(4), but so far just to poke it so modern AMD machines actually enter lower power states (S0ix).
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
News from Kenji Aoyama, the OpenBSD/luna88k snapshot from Nov 2nd now includes includes the gcc4 compiler for m88k by Miod Vallat! 😎
That makes OpenBSD the only modern operating system with a modern compiler toolchain available for the Motorola 88000-based Japanese Unix workstations from the 90's.
That makes OpenBSD the only modern operating system with a modern compiler toolchain available for the Motorola 88000-based Japanese Unix workstations from the 90's.
#OpenBSD/luna88k has been switched to gcc4! 😎
And with that the last GCC3_ARCH is gone!
Not with a bang but a whimper..
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
And with that the last GCC3_ARCH is gone!
Not with a bang but a whimper..
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
'CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src' - MARC
marc.info
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
News from Kenji Aoyama, the OpenBSD/luna88k snapshot from Nov 2nd now includes includes the gcc4 compiler for m88k by Miod Vallat! 😎
That makes OpenBSD the only modern operating system with a modern compiler toolchain available for the Motorola 88000-based Japanese Unix workstations from the 90's.
That makes OpenBSD the only modern operating system with a modern compiler toolchain available for the Motorola 88000-based Japanese Unix workstations from the 90's.
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
BSDCan 2026 CFP is open, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and +links for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
www.bsdcan.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
BSDCan 2026 CFP is open, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and +links for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this halloween. I just put this OpenBSD usb inside this candy bar. Be safe. 😔
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this halloween. I just put this OpenBSD usb inside this candy bar. Be safe. 😔
Reposted by Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #veb #vlan #networking #bridge #freesoftware #libresoftware #current #newfeature #development
Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware
www.undeadly.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #veb #vlan #networking #bridge #freesoftware #libresoftware #current #newfeature #development