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NetBSD on Allwinner SoCs Update
Since the last update, we've made a number of improvements to the NetBSD Allwinner port. The SUNXI kernel has grown support for 8 new SoCs, and we added many new device drivers to the source repository.
One year checkpoint and Thread Sanitizer update
The past year has been started with bugfixes and the development of regression tests for ptrace(2) and related kernel features, as well as the continuation of bringing LLDB support and LLVM sanitizers (ASan + UBsan and partial TSan + Msan) to NetBSD.
My plan for the next year is to finish implementing TSan and MSan support, followed by a long run of bug fixes for LLDB, ptrace(2), and other related kernel subsystems[Read More] [1 comment]
Google Summer of Code 2017
NetBSD participated in the 2017 edition of Google of Summer of Code with 3 students. All of the students finished their projects successfully. The following links report about their activities:
- Leonardo Taccari: Add multi-packages support to pkgsrc
- Maya Rashish: LFS cleanup
- Utkarsh Anand: Make Anita support multiple virtual machine systems
Kernel ASLR on amd64
Recently, I completed a Kernel ASLR implementation for NetBSD-amd64, making NetBSD the first BSD system to support such a feature. Simply said, KASLR is a feature that randomizes the location of the kernel in memory, making it harder to exploit several classes of vulnerabilities, both locally (privilege escalations) and remotely (remote code executions).[Read More] [2 comments]
EuroBSDcon 2017: "travel notes" after the conference
Let me tell you about my experience at EuroBSDcon 2017 in Paris, France. We will see what was presented during the NetBSD developer summit on Friday and then we will give a look to all of the NetBSD and pkgsrc presentations given during the conference session on Saturday and Sunday. Of course, a lot of fun also happened on the "hall track", the several breaks during the conference and the dinners we had together with other *BSD developers and community! This is difficult to describe and I will try to just share some part of that with photographs that we have taken. I can just say that it was a really beautiful experience, I had a great time with others and, after coming back home... ...I miss all of that! :) So, if you have never been in any BSD conferences I strongly suggest you to go to the next ones, so please stay tuned via NetBSD Events. Being there this is probably the only way to understand these feelings!
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2017 NetBSD Foundation Officers
By vote of The NetBSD Foundation Board of Directors, the officers for the 2017 term are:
President: William J. Coldwell <billc>
Vice President: Jeremy C. Reed <reed>
Secretary: Christos Zoulas <christos>
Treasurer: Christos Zoulas <christos>
Assistant Secretary: Thomas Klausner <wiz>
Assistant Treasurer: Taylor R. Campbell <riastradh>
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EuroBSDcon-2017 Paris
This year the annual EuroBSDcon event took place in Paris (September 21st-24th). There were BSD summits, tutorials and talks, including NetBSD & pkgsrc ones.[Read More] [0 comments]
The new TNF Board of Directors are installed and patched for 2017.
The slate of nominees was voted for and accepted by the members of the foundation. We'd like to our team of nomcom, voting coordinator, and voting validator for putting together the slate and managing the election process.
We welcome Pierre Pronchery
We appreciate all of the wonderful work that S.P.Zeidler
Thank you to all members participating by nominating candidates and voting on the slate.
Respectfully submitted for The NetBSD Foundation,
William J. Coldwell
President/Chairperson
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NetBSD buildbot in the binutils-gdb project
The NetBSD Foundation supports projects that strive to ship the best possible support in developer oriented software. This is not exclusive to LLVM, but also includes the more traditional GNU toolchain.[Read More] [0 comments]
Mercurial mirror on Bitbucket
Joerg Sonnenberger has announced a new set of mirrored repositories.
You can find Mercurial versions of src, pkgsrc and xsrc under
and
The same rules as for the fossil and github repositories apply, i.e. there may be occasional glitches and if it becomes too bad, they might be recreated from scratch.
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LLVM libFuzzer and SafeStack ported to NetBSD
This month I've finally finished upstreaming NetBSD support in ASan and UBsan. For better coverage of the sanitizers and on user request I've ported libFuzzer and SafeStack. There are mutual dependencies between the compiler-rt features. NetBSD after sorting out msan and tsan shall get all the remaining ones enabled. This is open topic after finishing LLDB. I have also prepared better ground for the coming work on ptrace(2) enhancements with the removal of the filesystem tracing (
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GSoC 2017 Reports: Add SUBPACKAGES support to pkgsrc, part 1
In this blog post series I will discuss about SUBPACKAGES work
done during
Google Summer of Code 2017.
In this first part I'll briefly introduce what are SUBPACKAGES,
why and when can be useful and finally we'll give a quick look to a trivial
pkgsrc package that uses them. At the end
we'll also dive a bit on parts of the pkgsrc infrastructure that needed to be
adjusted for implementing that.