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EuroBSDCon 2022 NetBSD Summit
Details
We will try to organise a NetBSD (and pkgsrc) summit at the EuroBSDCon 2022 in Vienna. After a longer break and remote event, this will be an in-person event. The EuroBSDCon take place from September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna.
Additional details about the conference could be found at the official website: https://2022.eurobsdcon.org/
We met on the day 2 of Tutorials (16 September 2022) in the room reserved for Track 2 (room 2B).
The stream was performed and announced by @BSDTV on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BSDTV/status/1570760994888249345.
NetBSD Dinner
Table reserved at ra’mien, Gumpendorferstr. 9, 1060 Wien on Friday, September 16, at 19h.
Planning to attend?
Please add yourself to the table so it helps everybody for planing the event.
| First Last | login@ |
join dinner? | comment(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benny | bsiegert@ |
yes | n/a |
| Jörg | joerg@ |
yes | … |
| Pierre | khorben@ |
yes | … |
| Maya | maya@ |
yes | - |
| Nia | nia@ |
vegan options? definitely | - |
| Taylor | riastradh@ |
yes | - |
| Stephen | sborrill@ |
yes | - |
| Thomas | wiz@ |
yes | … |
| Adrian | ast@ |
yes | … |
Planning to present something?
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
bsiegert@ |
Go is in trouble - on recent changes about the Go platorm policy and persistent, hard-to-diagnose bugs in NetBSD and/or the Go platform support |
khorben@ |
BSD Driver Harmony - on an initiative to bring the (major) BSD projects closer in terms of driver development and maintenance [Slides (PDF)] |
nia@ |
NetBSD 10: 3 Years in the Making - attempt to explore notable new features, how the sausage is made in releng, instability during the process, and community disputes, compromises (plus, you know the good parts) |
Discussions
Debugging suspend/resume or graphics failures
drvctl -R,drvctl -Sfor specific drivers or buses- Improving crash dumps (same kernel issue, performance/zero pages issue)
- Setting up watchdogs at boot? (hardware, software)
Blockers for NetBSD 10
- Extended attributes (EA) for FFS (related to the superblock)
- Update tool for EA will be relevant for 10
- Patch from Chuck Silvers (where?)
Other issues with -current
- Crashy X applications, and weird trackpad on pinebook (to diagnose, should test with wsmoused)
Ideas for NetBSD 11
- USB audio 2 (see wiki page for converting USB drivers to wireless, https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/converting_usb_drivers_to_usbwifi__40__9__41__/)
- Converting wireless drivers (see https://wiki.netbsd.org/Converting_drivers_to_the_new_wifi_stack/)
- Would be great to do
athn(4) - Some hardware is hard to find, like
wi(4)
- Would be great to do
- Better clock mechanism (related to Go’s performance issues)
Varia
- PGP Key signing or is that going out of style? - ast@
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