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Something Old,Something New,
Something BorrowedSevan Janiyan - [email protected]
pkgsrcCon 2018
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Sportsball PSA!
• London Hackspace is going to Wembley!!
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Something Old
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Stepping back to pkgsrc 2014
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Cheap“Interesting” hardware
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
State of NetBSD/macppc
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
head-llvm builds
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
awacs(4) sound driver enabled by default now
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Audio new plays back in correct pitch
•port-macppc/52949
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Bluetooth support enabled by default
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
IPsec support enabled by default
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Veriexec support enabled by default
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Uses “per-priority cyclical scan” buffer
queue strategy
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
G5 Support
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
sys/arch/macppc/conf/MAMBO
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
• https://github.com/open-power-sdk/power-simulator
• Where are the PowerPC 970 docs?
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
macofcons(4) removed
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
radeonfb(4) improvements
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
DVI support for G4 Mac Mini
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
XCOFF boot loader improvements
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
To bring it back to pkgsrc
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Can be slow to build things due to hardware
limitations
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Extremely secure platform
• Lack a browser with complete javascript support
• www/netsurf works great
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Ignoring web browsing
• Plethora of packages in other areas e.g graphics/gimp, audio/pd, cross/avrgcc ...
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Reveals bugs
• lua(4) crash - kern/52864
• graphics/gimp build - port-macppc/53360
• lang/racket - ??
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Wish list
• Faster builds
• Racket and chezscheme
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Thanks
• macallan@ for everything macppc and *fb
• uwe@ for ofwboot.xcf updates
• nat@ for audio subsystem work
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Something New
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
File sharing in public
• Traditional means painful - fragile or security prone
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
New workflow
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Available atwip/go-upspin
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
upspinserver
• All encompassing daemon
• Run in insecure mode to proxy from a web server
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Exposing namespace
• upspinfs to FUSE
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Something borrowed
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Tuesday, 10 July 2018
• NetBSD-src from 2014?
• pkgsrc-2014Q?
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Worldview according to gnu-config
• Minix is i386
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
1st step
• Bring things in line with netbsd-8
• Evaluate the state of pkgsrc support
Tuesday, 10 July 2018