Hacker News: brynet

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18"

brynet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:30:44 +0000

Most of the common drm code and kernel gpu drivers are already MIT/X licensed for historical reasons, same goes for the Mesa GL and Xorg components.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/sys/dev/pci/drm

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18"

brynet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:25:20 +0000

OpenBSD 7.9 was already on the 6.18.y longterm support version for the drm(4) drivers, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) completed the update back in March, sponsored by the OpenBSD Foundation.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177310343311915&w=2

I just wanted to highlight Jonathan's continued efforts backporting updates in my usual "HYPE" post series for the upcoming OpenBSD 8.0 release.

(I'm the author of the mastodon post that was shared.)

New comment by brynet in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"

brynet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:26:16 +0000

nv(4) is the old 2D user modesetting X driver (DDX), for legacy devices.

There is no kms drm or 3D acceleration for nvidia on OpenBSD.

New comment by brynet in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"

brynet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:47:03 +0000

Yes, the upcoming OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963

New comment by brynet in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"

brynet — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:18:53 +0000

I OK'd this port. I apologize in advance.

New comment by brynet in "The people holding up the internet"

brynet — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:48:51 +0000

With my OpenBSD developer hat on, getting new hardware in the hands of developers is really important, many of us are hacking on 5-10 year old thinkpads that need replacing.

https://www.openbsd.org/want.html

The OpenBSD foundation is ~23% away from its fundraising goal for 2026, which helps support developer hackathons and project infrastructure, etc.

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2026.html

Shamelessly, if I may add a personal plea, in addition to funding the open source projects you use, if you can, please do consider directly supporting individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://dir.floss.fund/view/@brynet.ca

New comment by brynet in "OpenSSH 10.6"

brynet — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:45:50 +0000

OpenSSH -portable is maintained by the OpenSSH developers, who are also OpenBSD developers.

New comment by brynet in "OpenSSH 10.6"

brynet — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:36:49 +0000

> sshd(8): On OS X SDK >= 27, sandboxing is no longer supported as the API we depended upon has been removed and no obvious alternative provided.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/d4b4c304a...

New comment by brynet in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

brynet — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:54:03 +0000

OpenBSD developer Tobias Heider (tobhe@) has already committed the first pieces of OpenBSD/arm64 support for these Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops.

"This gets USB, keyboard and touchpad working in ACPI mode on the HP Elitebook X G2q."

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178891082169317&w=2

Tobias (who also works for Canonical) recently demoed Ubuntu on mastodon and confirmed ARM EL2 works, meaning KVM support unlike previous generations.

bsd.network/@tobhe/117122761215052773

(I'd love to get my hands on one of these X2 Elite machines, hmu qcom.)

New comment by brynet in "Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)"

brynet — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:20:57 +0000

> At that time, its researchers have modified Chromium to make use of Capsicum and compared how much effort was required to make use of each sandboxing mechanism within Chromium. [..] If you’re only going to study one sandboxing mechanism in your life, it should be Capsicum. To this date, I have yet to see a better sandboxing mechanism than Capsicum.

In the years since it was added, there's a reason you can count on two hands the number of programs using it in FreeBSD. Even less using it effectively, with refactoring, and not just calling cap_enter().

Capsicum Chrome has never been committed to the official FreeBSD ports tree, it was an academic research project from 17 years ago.

https://github.com/rwatson/chromium-capsicum

https://www.freshports.org/www/chromium/

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/www/chromium/Makefile?qt=...

No browsers on FreeBSD today use Capsicum.

Compare that instead to OpenBSD, where the Chromium port has used pledge(2) since January 2016, and unveil(2) since 2018. Enabled by default. The Mozilla Firefox ports also use both pledge and unveil since 2018-2019, and this work has even been accepted upstream.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=145211683609002&w=2

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/www/chromium/pa...

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/fi...

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

brynet — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:53:15 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

If any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

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New comment by brynet in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

brynet — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:24:06 +0000

I'm curious what 2.5GbE chipset they used.

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:03:43 +0000

Thanks, but unfortunately I found nothing new there that's applicable in my case. Not looking for project grants or rigid commitment/goals based funding at this time.

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynet — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:25:14 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

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New comment by brynet in "NetBSD 11.0"

brynet — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:27:01 +0000

> IIRC OpenBSD used to use GCC 2.95 for years.

2.95.3 and 3.3.6, both have now been retired in favour of gcc4. The majority use clang now, though.

New comment by brynet in "NetBSD 11.0"

brynet — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:11:35 +0000

Indeed, 4.2.1 was the last GPLv2 version. OpenBSD still uses it (w/ patches) for a few platforms, for example.

/bsd.own.mk:GCC4_ARCH=alpha hppa m88k sh sparc64

The rest have already been migrated to LLVM/Clang 22 by default (except sparc64 below, that's experimental).

./bsd.own.mk:CLANG_ARCH=aarch64 amd64 arm i386 mips64 powerpc powerpc64 riscv64 sparc64

WPA3 Implementation for OpenBSD

brynet — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:18:29 +0000

Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178437520390575&w=2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957458

Points: 5

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New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

brynet — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:49:01 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

New comment by brynet in "Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)"

brynet — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:53:18 +0000

This is not usenet, it's the openbsd misc@ mailing list.

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

brynet — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:52:29 +0000

No.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/d5b0ed23b6fe61f0278c37a4...

Perhaps relevant, Students from the University of Southern Denmark released a paper earlier this month, which once again noted the fact that over ~90% of the OpenBSD base system uses pledge(2). Almost certainly all of the network speaking daemons in base do.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03056