Category Archives: NetBSD

NetBSD 9.2 released

NetBSD 9.2 “Nakatomi Socrates” was released on 12 of May, 2021. It’s a second feature release for netbsd-9 branch. As usual, it includes stability and security fixes, as well as some selected feature enhancements. Main highlights can be found in release announcement, full list of changes in CHANGES-9.2 file. Finally, the release can be downloaded from CDN service or any other project mirrors.

Besides this release, the current branch integrated aiomixer, which is terminal-based graphical audio mixer for NetBSD audio API. Read more about it in this blog post.

GNOME 3 is finally available on NetBSD

With a some overdue compared to other BSDs, GNOME 3 desktop environment meta package was recently added to pkgsrc. Successful installations were reported by some NetBSD users including screenshots! Thus, I am also planning to give a try soon, since it is my default desktop environment in Linux systems. Currently, it can be build from sources only using latest pkgsrc branch. Likely, binary package will be available with the pkgsrc-2020Q4 release next year.

OS108 9.1 XFCE released

Last week the NetBSD based OS108 distribution was updated to 9.1 version. In comparison to previous release, MATE desktop environment was replaced with Xfce one. Thus installation instructions are slightly updated too. Initial installation matches the NetBSD one except that log option should be added to FFSv2 partitions. After the first boot into installed system, the installation image should be mounted and sh /cdrom/OS108/xfce.sh command should be executed with the root account. The script will prepare desktop environment and automatically reboot. The system should be ready to use after that.

DVD ISO and USB images are available in the project’s github page. For the communication telegram group or forums can be used. Give it a try!

pkgsrc-2020Q3, NetBSD 9.1 were released

In October two major releases were announced. A bit over a week ago, the day on 9 of October, 2020 was marked by 68th quarterly release of pkgsrc project. pkgsrc2020-Q3 is a third one this year and included 241 new packages, removed 115 of them, and committed 1713 (to 1273 unique packages) updates to existing packages since last release. More information can be found in the release announcement itself.

Just 9 days later, on 18 of October NetBSD tagged 9.1 release and the official announcement is available starting today. This is the first feature update to NetBSD 9 release branch and includes lots of fixes for security and stability reasons as well as new drivers, third party software updates and enhancements. The full list of changes since 9.0 can be found here. Personally, inclusion of aq(4) driver was important to my setup since I am using Aquantia AQC100 based Asus XG-C100F SFP+ 10Gbit network adapter. The CTWM window manager is already default starting this release. As usual, the release can be downloaded from CDN service or any other project mirrors.

NetBSD 9.1 on Ryzen 1600
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NetBSD 9.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 19 22:18:57 EEST 2020
system@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 32719 MB
avail memory = 31743 MB
cpu_rng: RDSEED
rnd: seeded with 256 bits
WARNING: ZFS on NetBSD is under development
ZFS filesystem version: 5
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
running cgd selftest aes-xts-256 aes-xts-512 done
timecounter: Timecounter “i8254” frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
BIOSTAR Group X370GT5 ( )
mainbus0 (root)
ACPI: RSDP 0x00000000000F05A0 000024 (v02 ALASKA)
ACPI: XSDT 0x00000000DBFA30A0 0000C4 (v01 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00010013)
ACPI: FACP 0x00000000DBFA85F8 000114 (v06 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00010013)
ACPI: DSDT 0x00000000DBFA3200 0053F2 (v02 ALASKA A M I 01072009 INTL 20120913)
ACPI: FACS 0x00000000DC03FE00 000040
ACPI: APIC 0x00000000DBFA8710 00015E (v03 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00010013)
ACPI: FPDT 0x00000000DBFA8870 000044 (v01 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00010013)
ACPI: FIDT 0x00000000DBFA88B8 00009C (v01 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00010013)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFA8958 0000C8 (v02 ALASKA CPUSSDT 01072009 AMI 01072009)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFA8A20 008C98 (v02 AMD AMD ALIB 00000002 MSFT 04000000)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFB16B8 0036B9 (v01 AMD AMD AOD 00000001 INTL 20120913)
ACPI: MCFG 0x00000000DBFB4D78 00003C (v01 ALASKA A M I 01072009 MSFT 00010013)
ACPI: BHMB 0x00000000DBFB4DB8 000474 (v01 ALASKA A M I 00000001 AMI 00000001)
ACPI: HPET 0x00000000DBFB5230 000038 (v01 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00000005)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFB5268 000024 (v01 AMDFCH FCHZP 00001000 INTL 20120913)
ACPI: UEFI 0x00000000DBFB5290 000042 (v01 ALASKA A M I 00000002 01000013)
ACPI: TPM2 0x00000000DBFB52D8 000038 (v04 ALASKA A M I 00000001 AMI 00000000)
ACPI: IVRS 0x00000000DBFB5310 0000D0 (v02 AMD AMD IVRS 00000001 AMD 00000000)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFB53E0 001A58 (v01 AMD AMD CPU 00000001 AMD 00000001)
ACPI: CRAT 0x00000000DBFB6E38 000BD0 (v01 AMD AMD CRAT 00000001 AMD 00000001)
ACPI: CDIT 0x00000000DBFB7A08 000029 (v01 AMD AMD CDIT 00000001 AMD 00000001)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFB7A38 001D4A (v01 AMD AmdTable 00000001 INTL 20120913)
ACPI: SSDT 0x00000000DBFB9788 0000BF (v01 AMD AMD PT 00001000 INTL 20120913)
ACPI: WSMT 0x00000000DBFB9848 000028 (v01 ALASKA A M I 01072009 AMI 00010013)
ACPI: 8 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 13: pa 0xfec00000, version 0x21, 24 pins
ioapic1 at mainbus0 apid 14: pa 0xfec01000, version 0x21, 32 pins
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0
cpu0: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu0: package 0, core 0, smt 0
cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 2
cpu1: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu1: package 0, core 1, smt 0
cpu2 at mainbus0 apid 4
cpu2: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu2: package 0, core 2, smt 0
cpu3 at mainbus0 apid 8
cpu3: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu3: package 0, core 4, smt 0
cpu4 at mainbus0 apid 10
cpu4: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu4: package 0, core 5, smt 0
cpu5 at mainbus0 apid 12
cpu5: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu5: package 0, core 6, smt 0
cpu6 at mainbus0 apid 1
cpu6: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu6: package 0, core 0, smt 1
cpu7 at mainbus0 apid 3
cpu7: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu7: package 0, core 1, smt 1
cpu8 at mainbus0 apid 5
cpu8: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu8: package 0, core 2, smt 1
cpu9 at mainbus0 apid 9
cpu9: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu9: package 0, core 4, smt 1
cpu10 at mainbus0 apid 11
cpu10: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu10: package 0, core 5, smt 1
cpu11 at mainbus0 apid 13
cpu11: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor , id 0x800f11
cpu11: package 0, core 6, smt 1
acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20190405
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId , AslId
acpi0: autoconfiguration error: invalid PCI address for D01D
acpi0: MCFG: segment 0, bus 0-63, address 0x00000000f8000000
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
acpi0: fixed power button present
timecounter: Timecounter “ACPI-Fast” frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
hpet0 at acpi0: high precision event timer (mem 0xfed00000-0xfed00400)
timecounter: Timecounter “hpet0” frequency 14318180 Hz quality 2000
AMDN (PNP0C01) at acpi0 not configured
IOMA (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
APSP (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
attimer1 at acpi0 (TMR, PNP0100): io 0x40-0x43 irq 0
pcppi1 at acpi0 (SPKR, PNP0800): io 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi1: PC Speaker
wsbell at spkr0 not configured
midi0 at pcppi1: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi1
SIO1 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
pckbc1 at acpi0 (PS2K, PNP0303-0) (kbd port): io 0x60,0x64 irq 1
UAR1 (PNP0501) at acpi0 not configured
S900 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
acpibut0 at acpi0 (PWRB, PNP0C0C-170): ACPI Power Button
GPIO (AMDI0030) at acpi0 not configured
TPM (MSFT0101) at acpi0 not configured
AWR0 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR0 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR1 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR2 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR3 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR4 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR5 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR6 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR7 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
AWR1 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR8 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABR9 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABRA (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABRB (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABRC (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABRD (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABRE (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
ABRF (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured
PTIO (AMDIF030) at acpi0 not configured
acpitz0 at acpi0 (THRM)
acpitz0: levels: critical 85.0 C, passive cooling
acpiwmi0 at acpi0 (AOD, PNP0C14-AOD): ACPI WMI Interface
acpiwmibus at acpiwmi0 not configured
ACPI: Enabled 1 GPEs in block 00 to 1F
attimer1: attached to pcppi1
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
amdsmn0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: AMD System Management Network
amdzentemp0 at amdsmn0: AMD CPU Temperature Sensors (Family17h)
vendor 1022 product 1451 (IOMMU system) at pci0 dev 0 function 2 not configured
pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1452 (rev. 0x00)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1: vendor 1022 product 1453 (rev. 0x00)
ppb0: PCI Express capability version 2 x4 @ 2.5GT/s
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
xhci0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b9 (rev. 0x02)
xhci0: interrupting at msi0 vec 0
xhci0: xHCI version 1.10
usb0 at xhci0: USB revision 3.1
usb1 at xhci0: USB revision 2.0
ahcisata0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1: vendor 1022 product 43b5 (rev. 0x02)
ahcisata0: 64-bit DMA
ahcisata0: AHCI revision 1.31, 8 ports, 32 slots, CAP 0xef36ff27
ahcisata0: interrupting at msi1 vec 0
atabus0 at ahcisata0 channel 0
atabus1 at ahcisata0 channel 1
atabus2 at ahcisata0 channel 2
atabus3 at ahcisata0 channel 3
atabus4 at ahcisata0 channel 4
atabus5 at ahcisata0 channel 5
atabus6 at ahcisata0 channel 6
atabus7 at ahcisata0 channel 7
ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 2: vendor 1022 product 43b0 (rev. 0x02)
ppb1: PCI Express capability version 2
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb2: PCI Express capability version 2 x1 @ 5.0GT/s
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb3 at pci2 dev 1 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb3: PCI Express capability version 2 x1 @ 5.0GT/s
ppb3: link is x1 @ 2.5GT/s
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb4 at pci4 dev 0 function 0: vendor 1b21 product 1080 (rev. 0x03)
pci5 at ppb4 bus 5
pci5: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb5 at pci2 dev 2 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb5: PCI Express capability version 2 x1 @ 5.0GT/s
pci6 at ppb5 bus 6
pci6: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb6 at pci2 dev 3 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb6: PCI Express capability version 2 x1 @ 5.0GT/s
pci7 at ppb6 bus 7
pci7: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb7 at pci2 dev 4 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb7: PCI Express capability version 2 x2 @ 5.0GT/s
pci8 at ppb7 bus 8
pci8: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
aq0 at pci8 dev 0 function 0: Aquantia AQC100 10 Gigabit Network Adapter (rev. 0x02)
aq0: Atlantic revision B1, F/W version 3.1.58
aq0: fw2x> F/W capabilities=0x63c0001900007f20
aq0: Etheraddr: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ppb8 at pci2 dev 6 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb8: PCI Express capability version 2 x1 @ 5.0GT/s
pci9 at ppb8 bus 9
pci9: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb9 at pci2 dev 7 function 0: vendor 1022 product 43b4 (rev. 0x02)
ppb9: PCI Express capability version 2 x1 @ 5.0GT/s
ppb9: link is x1 @ 2.5GT/s
pci10 at ppb9 bus 10
pci10: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
athn0 at pci10 dev 0 function 0: Atheros AR9287
athn0: rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 4, address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
athn0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 3
athn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
athn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
pchb1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1452 (rev. 0x00)
pchb2 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1452 (rev. 0x00)
ppb10 at pci0 dev 3 function 1: vendor 1022 product 1453 (rev. 0x00)
ppb10: PCI Express capability version 2 x16 @ 8.0GT/s
pci11 at ppb10 bus 11
pci11: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
radeon0 at pci11 dev 0 function 0: vendor 1002 product 6811 (rev. 0x81)
hdaudio0 at pci11 dev 0 function 1: HD Audio Controller
hdaudio0: interrupting at msi3 vec 0
hdafg0 at hdaudio0: vendor 1002 product aa01
hdafg0: HDMI00 2ch: Digital Out [Jack]
hdafg0: HDMI01 2ch: Digital Out [Jack]
hdafg0: HDMI02 2ch: Digital Out [Jack]
hdafg0: HDMI03 2ch: Digital Out [Jack]
hdafg0: HDMI04 2ch: Digital Out [Jack]
hdafg0: HDMI05 2ch: Digital Out [Jack]
hdafg0: 2ch/0ch 32000Hz 44100Hz 48000Hz PCM16 AC3
pchb3 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1452 (rev. 0x00)
pchb4 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1452 (rev. 0x00)
ppb11 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: vendor 1022 product 1454 (rev. 0x00)
ppb11: PCI Express capability version 2 x16 @ 8.0GT/s
pci12 at ppb11 bus 12
pci12: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
vendor 1022 product 145a (non-essential instrumentation, subclass 0x00) at pci12 dev 0 function 0 not configured
vendor 1022 product 1456 (miscellaneous crypto) at pci12 dev 0 function 2 not configured
xhci1 at pci12 dev 0 function 3: vendor 1022 product 145c (rev. 0x00)
xhci1: interrupting at msi4 vec 0
xhci1: xHCI version 1.0
usb2 at xhci1: USB revision 3.0
usb3 at xhci1: USB revision 2.0
pchb5 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1452 (rev. 0x00)
ppb12 at pci0 dev 8 function 1: vendor 1022 product 1454 (rev. 0x00)
ppb12: PCI Express capability version 2 x16 @ 8.0GT/s
pci13 at ppb12 bus 13
pci13: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
vendor 1022 product 1455 (non-essential instrumentation, subclass 0x00) at pci13 dev 0 function 0 not configured
ahcisata1 at pci13 dev 0 function 2: vendor 1022 product 7901 (rev. 0x51)
ahcisata1: 64-bit DMA
ahcisata1: AHCI revision 1.31, 8 ports, 32 slots, CAP 0xf737ff07
ahcisata1: interrupting at msi5 vec 0
atabus8 at ahcisata1 channel 0
atabus9 at ahcisata1 channel 1
atabus10 at ahcisata1 channel 2
atabus11 at ahcisata1 channel 3
atabus12 at ahcisata1 channel 4
atabus13 at ahcisata1 channel 5
atabus14 at ahcisata1 channel 6
atabus15 at ahcisata1 channel 7
hdaudio1 at pci13 dev 0 function 3: HD Audio Controller
hdaudio1: interrupting at msi6 vec 0
hdafg1 at hdaudio1: vendor 10ec product 0892
hdafg1: DAC00 8ch: Speaker [Jack]
hdafg1: DAC01 2ch: HP Out [Jack]
hdafg1: DIG02 2ch: SPDIF Out [Jack]
hdafg1: ADC03 2ch: Line In [Jack], Mic In [Jack]
hdafg1: ADC04 2ch: Mic In [Jack]
hdafg1: 8ch/2ch 32000Hz 44100Hz 48000Hz 88200Hz 96000Hz 192000Hz PCM16 PCM20 PCM24 AC3
audio0 at hdafg1: playback, capture, full duplex, independent
audio0: slinear_le:16 8ch 48000Hz, blk 7680 bytes (10ms) for playback
audio0: slinear_le:16 2ch 48000Hz, blk 1920 bytes (10ms) for recording
spkr1 at audio0: PC Speaker (synthesized)
wsbell at spkr1 not configured
piixpm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0: vendor 1022 product 790b (rev. 0x59)
piixpm0: interrupting at SMI,
iic0 at piixpm0 port 0: I2C bus
iic1 at piixpm0 port 1: I2C bus
pcib0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3: vendor 1022 product 790e (rev. 0x51)
pchb6 at pci0 dev 24 function 0: vendor 1022 product 1460 (rev. 0x00)
pchb7 at pci0 dev 24 function 1: vendor 1022 product 1461 (rev. 0x00)
pchb8 at pci0 dev 24 function 2: vendor 1022 product 1462 (rev. 0x00)
pchb9 at pci0 dev 24 function 3: vendor 1022 product 1463 (rev. 0x00)
pchb10 at pci0 dev 24 function 4: vendor 1022 product 1464 (rev. 0x00)
pchb11 at pci0 dev 24 function 5: vendor 1022 product 1465 (rev. 0x00)
pchb12 at pci0 dev 24 function 6: vendor 1022 product 1466 (rev. 0x00)
pchb13 at pci0 dev 24 function 7: vendor 1022 product 1467 (rev. 0x00)
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
acpicpu0 at cpu0: ACPI CPU
acpicpu0: C1: FFH, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW
acpicpu0: C2: I/O, lat 400 us, pow 0 mW
acpicpu0: P0: FFH, lat 1 us, pow 3960 mW, 3200 MHz
acpicpu0: P1: FFH, lat 1 us, pow 2940 mW, 2800 MHz
acpicpu0: P2: FFH, lat 1 us, pow 1350 mW, 1550 MHz
acpicpu0: T0: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 100 %
acpicpu0: T1: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 88 %
acpicpu0: T2: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 76 %
acpicpu0: T3: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 64 %
acpicpu0: T4: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 52 %
acpicpu0: T5: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 40 %
acpicpu0: T6: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 28 %
acpicpu0: T7: I/O, lat 1 us, pow 0 mW, 16 %
acpicpu1 at cpu1: ACPI CPU
acpicpu2 at cpu2: ACPI CPU
acpicpu3 at cpu3: ACPI CPU
acpicpu4 at cpu4: ACPI CPU
acpicpu5 at cpu5: ACPI CPU
acpicpu6 at cpu6: ACPI CPU
acpicpu7 at cpu7: ACPI CPU
acpicpu8 at cpu8: ACPI CPU
acpicpu9 at cpu9: ACPI CPU
acpicpu10 at cpu10: ACPI CPU
acpicpu11 at cpu11: ACPI CPU
timecounter: Timecounter “clockinterrupt” frequency 100 Hz quality 0
autoconfiguration error: ERROR: 656 cycle TSC drift observed
uhub0 at usb0: NetBSD (0000) xHCI root hub (0000), class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 0
uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
uhub1 at usb1: NetBSD (0000) xHCI root hub (0000), class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 0
uhub1: 14 ports with 14 removable, self powered
uhub2 at usb2: NetBSD (0000) xHCI root hub (0000), class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 0
uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
uhub3 at usb3: NetBSD (0000) xHCI root hub (0000), class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 0
uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
ahcisata0 port 0: device present, speed: 6.0Gb/s
ahcisata0 port 1: device present, speed: 1.5Gb/s
ahcisata0 port 5: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0
wd0:
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 476 GB, 992277 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1000215216 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133), WRITE DMA FUA, NCQ (32 tags)
wd0(ahcisata0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA), NCQ (31 tags)
atapibus0 at atabus1: 1 targets
umass0 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0
umass0: StoreJet Transcend (0x174c) StoreJet Transcend (0x5106), rev 3.00/80.00, addr 1
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: cdrom removable
scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target
uhub4 at uhub1 port 11: vendor 05e3 (0x5e3) USB2.0 Hub (0x608), class 9/0, rev 2.00/32.98, addr 2
uhub4: single transaction translator
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: disk fixed
, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
cd0(ahcisata0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
wd1 at atabus5 drive 0
wd1:
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 149 GB, 310101 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 312581808 sectors
sd0: 238 GB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 500118192 sectors
sd0: GPT GUID: aa426d16-0d0e-40a1-90e7-9a75f7b5c75f
dk0 at sd0: “67b20926-002a-424f-a169-2c7efc563bb9”, 614401 blocks at 4097, type: msdos
dk1 at sd0: “5d7e40e5-4454-4a98-a81e-c5223d78f161”, 421527550 blocks at 618498, type: ext2fs
dk2 at sd0: “ed7d719c-6ef4-451f-9732-2e4dd981273b”, 35925033 blocks at 464178417, type:
dk3 at sd0: “731c9349-02e0-471d-93db-99f63c06afe8”, 42032369 blocks at 422146048, type: ffs
uhub4: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 7, NCQ (32 tags)
wd1(ahcisata0:5:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA), NCQ (31 tags)
ubt0 at uhub3 port 1
ubt0: vendor 0a12 (0xa12) Bluetooth2.1+EDR CLASS1 (0x01), rev 2.00/52.76, addr 1
uhidev0 at uhub4 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: Logitech (0x46d) USB Receiver (0xc52b), rev 2.00/12.10, addr 3, iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev0
wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard
uhidev1 at uhub4 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1
uhidev1: Logitech (0x46d) USB Receiver (0xc52b), rev 2.00/12.10, addr 3, iclass 3/1
uhidev1: 8 report ids
ums0 at uhidev1 reportid 2: 16 buttons, W and Z dirs
wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0
uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 3: input=4, output=0, feature=0
uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 4: input=1, output=0, feature=0
uhid2 at uhidev1 reportid 8: input=1, output=0, feature=0
uhidev2 at uhub4 port 1 configuration 1 interface 2
uhidev2: Logitech (0x46d) USB Receiver (0xc52b), rev 2.00/12.10, addr 3, iclass 3/0
uhidev2: 33 report ids
uhid3 at uhidev2 reportid 16: input=6, output=6, feature=0
uhid4 at uhidev2 reportid 17: input=19, output=19, feature=0
uhid5 at uhidev2 reportid 32: input=14, output=14, feature=0
uhid6 at uhidev2 reportid 33: input=31, output=31, feature=0
uhidev3 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev3: Fnatic Gear (0x195d) RUSH Mechanical Keyboard (0x2030), rev 2.00/1.09, addr 4, iclass 3/1
ukbd1 at uhidev3
wskbd1 at ukbd1 mux 1
uhidev4 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1
uhidev4: Fnatic Gear (0x195d) RUSH Mechanical Keyboard (0x2030), rev 2.00/1.09, addr 4, iclass 3/0
uhid7 at uhidev4: input=4, output=0, feature=0
uhidev5 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 2
uhidev5: Fnatic Gear (0x195d) RUSH Mechanical Keyboard (0x2030), rev 2.00/1.09, addr 4, iclass 3/0
ukbd2 at uhidev5
wskbd2 at ukbd2 mux 1
uhidev6 at uhub4 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev6: vendor 195d (0x195d) Trackball Mouse (0x1009), rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5, iclass 3/1
ums1 at uhidev6: 3 buttons and Z dir
wsmouse1 at ums1 mux 0
WARNING: 2 errors while detecting hardware; check system log.
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
kern.module.path=/stand/amd64/9.1/modules
kern info: [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (PITCAIRN 0x1002:0x6811 0x1458:0x2015).
kern info: [drm] register mmio base: 0xfcc00000
kern info: [drm] register mmio size: 262144
kern info: ATOM BIOS: GV
radeon0: info: VRAM: 2048M 0x0000000000000000 – 0x000000007FFFFFFF (2048M used)
radeon0: info: GTT: 2048M 0x0000000080000000 – 0x00000000FFFFFFFF
kern info: [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=800M, BAR=256M
kern info: [drm] RAM width 256bits DDR
Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 11322790 kiB
Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB
kern info: [drm] radeon: 2048M of VRAM memory ready
kern info: [drm] radeon: 2048M of GTT memory ready.
kern info: [drm] Loading pitcairn Microcode
kern info: [drm] radeon/PITCAIRN_mc2.bin: 31100 bytes
kern info: [drm] Internal thermal controller with fan control
kern info: [drm] radeon: dpm initialized
kern info: [drm] Found VCE firmware/feedback version 50.0.1 / 17!
kern info: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 524288, num gpu pages 524288
kern info: [drm] PCIE GART of 2048M enabled (table at 0x00000000002E8000).
radeon0: info: WB enabled
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c00 and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc00
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 1 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c04 and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc04
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 2 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c08 and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc08
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c0c and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc0c
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 4 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c10 and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc10
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000075a18 and cpu addr 0x0xffffb3825ae75a18
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 6 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c18 and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc18
radeon0: info: fence driver on ring 7 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c1c and cpu addr 0x0xffffb140c3d3dc1c
kern info: [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
kern info: [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
radeon0: info: radeon: MSI limited to 32-bit
radeon0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 30 (radeon0)
kern info: [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
kern info: [drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 2 usecs
kern info: [drm] ring test on 1 succeeded in 1 usecs
kern info: [drm] ring test on 2 succeeded in 1 usecs
kern info: [drm] ring test on 3 succeeded in 5 usecs
kern info: [drm] ring test on 4 succeeded in 5 usecs
kern info: [drm] ring test on 5 succeeded in 2 usecs
kern info: [drm] UVD initialized successfully.
kern info: [drm] ring test on 6 succeeded in 25 usecs
kern info: [drm] ring test on 7 succeeded in 3 usecs
kern info: [drm] VCE initialized successfully.
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded in 0 usecs
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 1 succeeded in 0 usecs
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 2 succeeded in 0 usecs
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 3 succeeded in 0 usecs
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 4 succeeded in 0 usecs
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 5 succeeded
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 6 succeeded
kern info: [drm] ib test on ring 7 succeeded
kern info: [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
kern info: [drm] Connector 0:
kern info: [drm] DP-1
kern info: [drm] HPD4
kern info: [drm] DDC: 0x6530 0x6530 0x6534 0x6534 0x6538 0x6538 0x653c 0x653c
kern info: [drm] Encoders:
kern info: [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY2
kern info: [drm] Connector 1:
kern info: [drm] HDMI-A-1
kern info: [drm] HPD5
kern info: [drm] DDC: 0x6550 0x6550 0x6554 0x6554 0x6558 0x6558 0x655c 0x655c
kern info: [drm] Encoders:
kern info: [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY2
kern info: [drm] Connector 2:
kern info: [drm] DVI-I-1
kern info: [drm] HPD6
kern info: [drm] DDC: 0x6580 0x6580 0x6584 0x6584 0x6588 0x6588 0x658c 0x658c
kern info: [drm] Encoders:
kern info: [drm] DFP3: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
kern info: [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
kern info: [drm] Connector 3:
kern info: [drm] DVI-D-1
kern info: [drm] HPD1
kern info: [drm] DDC: 0x6570 0x6570 0x6574 0x6574 0x6578 0x6578 0x657c 0x657c
kern info: [drm] Encoders:
kern info: [drm] DFP4: INTERNAL_UNIPHY1
radeondrmkmsfb0 at radeon0
radeondrmkmsfb0: framebuffer at 0xffffb3825b8bb000, size 1920×1080, depth 32, stride 7680
wsdisplay0 at radeondrmkmsfb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
wskbd2: connecting to wsdisplay0
aq0: link is UP: speed=10000
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (default, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (default, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (default, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (default, vt100 emulation)

NetBSD switched default wm from twm to CTWM

Interesting news popped up few days in twitter. The default window manager was switched from twm (Tab Window Manager) to CTWM (Claude’s Tab Window Manager) in development branch. CTWM is backwards compatible twm fork with virtual desktops support. Currently, it can be tested by downloading the latest images from current branch, feedback is welcome to the author of this twitter thread.

CTWM on NetBSD
Screenshot of CTWM on NetBSD 9.99.73 with few open apps on VirtualBox

NetBSD in GSoC 2020 and other activities

Traditionally, The NetBSD project participated in the Google Summer of Code 2020. Six projects were selected for this year program:

Here you can find links to all the currently posted reports (will update the list if new ones will be posted):

Benchmark NetBSD:

  1. GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report
  2. GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report
  3. GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, third evaluation report

Curses library automated testing

  1. GSoC Reports: Curses Library Automated Testing, Part 1
  2. GSoC 2020 Second Evaluation Report: Curses Library Automated Testing
  3. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing

Make system(3) and popen(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally:

  1. GSoC Reports: Make system(3) and popen(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally, Part 1
  2. GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report)

Enhance the syzkaller support for NetBSD:

  1. GSoC Reports: Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, Part 1
  2. GSoC Reports: Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, Part 2
  3. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD

Rumpkernel Syscall Fuzzing:

  1. GSoC Reports: Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 1
  2. GSoC Reports: Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 2
  3. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing

Fuzzing the network stack of NetBSD in a rumpkernel environment:

  1. GSoC Reports: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment, Part 1
  2. GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment

Extending the functionality of the netpgp suite:

  1. GSoC Reports: Extending the functionality of NetPGP, Part 1

Other interesting reads:

The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD:

  1. The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1)
  2. The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2)
  3. The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 3)
  4. The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 4)
  5. The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 5)

LLDB work (since Feb of 2019):

  1. Final report on Clang / LLD state
  2. LLDB from trunk is running on NetBSD once again!
  3. LLDB/LLVM report for March 2019
  4. LLDB: extending CPU register inspection support
  5. XSAVE and compat32 kernel work for LLDB
  6. LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps
  7. Work-in-progress threading support in LLDB
  8. LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline
  9. Threading support in LLDB continued
  10. LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline
  11. Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news
  12. LLDB now works on i386
  13. Towards backtracing through signal trampolines and fresh libc++
  14. LLDB work concluded

Last but not the least:

  1. Improving libossaudio, and the future of OSS in NetBSD

netbsd-7 branch support will end tomorrow

Usually branches from only last two releases are supported by the project, with one month grace period for the branches from two releases back. Thus, netbsd-7 support was supposed to end in the middle of March. Nevertheless, due to pandemic the project decided to extend netbsd-7 support up to 30th of June. Because of this, netbsd-7, netbsd-7-1 and netbsd-7-0 maintenance will be stopped starting 1st of July, 2020. Definitely, the project team encourages to update to the latest release and promises to release NetBSD 9.1 soon.

pkgsrc-2020Q1 released and more

Today the pkgsrc developers announced the 66th quarterly release. In total 335 packages were added, 163 were removed and 2323 package updates performed (to 1762 unique packages) since last release. Please read release announcement for the highlights of the release. pkgsrc can be retrieved from the github mirror, CVS repository or as a tar file. Instructions can be found here.

In general, I am using pkgsrc extensively and recently I had a very positive experience on one of my secondary computers for the first time after 2 years. I was pleasantly surprised with the very smooth process with only wine package failing (which is quite expected for NetBSD as a target, it was patched manually before as well). Personally, I usually use current branch, but the pkgsrc-2020Q1 release should guarantee stability of packages if that matters to your setup. Binary packages will be also based on this release (installed by pkgin). Recently, I started to contribute to pkgsrc through pkgsrc WIP which makes it easier to contribute fore newcomers. Thank to this, I also contributed to 1 package update in this release :).

Addionally, I also missed NetBSD 9.0 based irBSD 15.03.2020 v9 release. It can be downloaded from here. For the reminder, it is a digital forensic suite for cryptography, penetration testing, data recovery, reverse engineering, privacy and other security tasks with pkgin package manager and ratpoison as default window manager. Give it a try!

The last but not the least, there is an interesting project going on to run RISC OS and NetBSD at the same time on RK3399 SoC. You can read about the project here or follow Michael Grunditz tweeter account.

NetBSD 8.2 released, netbsd-7 branch support was extended

On 31st of March, 2020 the third release of netbsd-8 branch was announced. NetBSD 8.2 includes selected subset security and stability fixes, as well as some new features and enhancements. The highlights are available in release announcement. Full list of changes can be found here. Finally, the release can be downloaded from CDN service or any other project mirrors. It is recommended update for the NetBSD 8 users in case NetBSD 9 is still not an option.

At the same time netbsd-7 branch support was also extended for additional three months due to ongoing COVID19 pandemy. Typically support for N-2 branch ends around a month after the major release but considering the circumstances the project decided make an exception just in case. Stay home and stay healthy!

Last but not the least: the NetBSD blog had few interesting articles on ongoing development:

The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1) by Kamil Rytarowski
Accomplishment of porting ptrace(2) test scenarios by Kamil Rytarowski
Towards backtracing through signal trampolines and fresh libc++ by Michał Górny