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over 5 years
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Fresh from the just concluded n2k18 hackathon comes this report from Ken Westerback
(krw@),
who writes:
How to travel from Dresden to Usti nad Labem for free!
No drama flying to Dresden, from which a train would take me to n2k18's
home in Usti
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
In a
short
series
of
commits,
Carlos Cardenas (ccardenas@) added support for
qcow2
image support to vmd(8).
[This builds on an
earlier commit
adding support for pluggable disk backends.]
The code was written by Ori Bernstein, who posted his diffs (thread 1, thread 2) to the [email protected] mailing list in August.
Read more…
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
Anton Lindqvist (anton@) gave a talk at
BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3 on the kernel coverage tracing kit he committed recently.
Slides
are now available via the
OpenBSD Events and Papers page.
The slides contain a list of bugs found and fixed as a result of this work.
See also:
kcov(4)
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
Ken Westerback (krw@ when wearing his dev hat) wrote in with
some great news:
The OpenBSD Foundation
is excited to announce that it has received
the first 2018 Iridium level donation. This year the first $100K+
donation came from
Handshake
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
In a
message to tech@,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
gives an update on the state-of-play regarding processor vulnerabilities:
Two recently disclosed hardware bugs affected Intel cpus:
- TLBleed
- T1TF (the name "Foreshadow" refers to 1 of 3
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has
committed
a diff to mitigate the
"Intel L1TF screwup" for the amd64 platform we reported on earlier:
From: Theo de Raadt (elided)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:04:41 -0600 (MDT)
To: [email protected]
Subject: CVS:
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
posted to the tech@ mailing list with some background on how the latest discovered Intel CPU
issues relate to OpenBSD.
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:31:16 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt [elided]
To: [email protected]
Subject:
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
[Dr.] Brian Callahan (bcallah@) recently live-streamed
(at twitch.tv/NewAstroCity)
an interactive OpenBSD Porting Workshop.
A recording of the workshop is
now available.
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
In a
series
of
commits,
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has added RETGUARD
for the arm64 platform.
We previously reported the
addition of RETGUARD for amd64.
Read more…
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
Bob Beck (beck@ when wearing OpenBSD-only hat)
has written
a tutorial
on using libtls:
[…]
This tutorial is designed for people with some C experience on a POSIX, BSD like machine with the latest libtls installed. It focuses on changes that are
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