KernelTrap: Who's Who At The 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon

Contributed by jolan on 2006-05-28 from the whos-who-and-whats-what dept.

Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap made rounds around the tables at the hackathon and interviewed a bunch of OpenBSD developers about where they're from, how they got involved in OpenBSD, and what they intend to work on at the hackathon. If you want a preview of what work is progressing at the hackathon, this article is as close as you'll get to a development "roadmap".

(Comments are closed)

Comments

By Anonymous Coward (213.196.243.218) on 2006-05-28 23:03

Speaking of the hackathon... the article links in a 2005
issue where tedu was working on rthreads. What has become
out of it? (Interesting code study in varying assembly
languages, it is, definitively. I know I won't, ever,
touch powerpc, and still wonder why nobody uses gas' new
.intel_syntax noprefix mode on i386 and probably amd64.)

PS: Cool I can still post with lynx!
By Anonymous Coward (69.193.125.65) on 2006-05-29 01:39

Awesome. Kerneltrap's coverage of last year's hackathon is what got me into OpenBSD in the first place. I was wondering if there would be more such coverage this year so this is great :)
By Chris (68.230.200.165) on 2006-05-29 01:48

Always nice to hear about the developers.
Comments
1. By Anonymous Coward (84.188.237.61) on 2006-05-29 02:29
  
  > Always nice to hear about the developers.
  
  I read something about Sparc III CPUs.
  Does this cover also the new SUN Sparc "Niagara" CPUs (wich base on Sparc III)?
  Comments
  1. By Miod Vallat (82.195.186.220) miod@ on 2006-05-29 08:40
    
    > I read something about Sparc III CPUs.
    > Does this cover also the new SUN Sparc "Niagara" CPUs (wich base on Sparc III)?
    
    No; there is no interest in sun4v support at the moment.
    
    Comments
    
    By gwyllion (134.58.253.130) on 2006-05-30 19:39
    
    > > I read something about Sparc III CPUs.
    > > Does this cover also the new SUN Sparc "Niagara" CPUs (wich base on Sparc III)?
    >
    > No; there is no interest in sun4v support at the moment.
    
    The UltraSPARC T1 cools very cool: 32 threads and hypervisor support.
    http://www.fsmware.com/sun4v/dmesg_latest.txt
    http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/HVFreeBSD.pdf
  2. By Anonymous Coward (66.11.66.41) on 2006-05-29 16:29
    
    > > Always nice to hear about the developers.
    >
    > I read something about Sparc III CPUs.
    > Does this cover also the new SUN Sparc "Niagara" CPUs (wich base on Sparc III)?
    
    What for? There is no SMP support for sparc64 yet. Using one thread of one core kinda makes it pointless.
    
    Comments
    
    By Wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on 2006-05-29 22:55 https://kd85.com/notforsale.html
    
    > > > Always nice to hear about the developers.
    > >
    > > I read something about Sparc III CPUs.
    > > Does this cover also the new SUN Sparc "Niagara" CPUs (wich base on Sparc III)?
    >
    > What for? There is no SMP support for sparc64 yet. Using one thread of one core kinda makes it pointless.
    
    You are talking to Miod... the only SMP he considers is on the 88k platform.
By gwyllion (134.58.253.130) on 2006-05-30 20:34

Part 2 is online: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6662

Latest Articles

Wed, Jan 08
- 10:07 rpki-client 9.4 released (0)
Mon, Dec 30
- 03:57 Game of Trees 0.107 released (0)
Thu, Dec 19
- 16:38 rpki-client stricter aging policy for Trust Anchor certificates commited to -current (0)
- 08:04 FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD (0)
Wed, Dec 18
- 19:57 OpenBGPD 8.7 released (0)
Sat, Nov 30
- 18:42 Initial list of 21 EuroBSDcon 2024 videos released (0)
- 18:39 Rafael Sadowski on dpb(1) (1)
Fri, Nov 29
- 09:31 -current now has more flexible performance policy (0)
Mon, Nov 25
- 07:13 unwind: wildcard in blacklist (0)

Credits

Copyright © 2004-2008 Daniel Hartmeier. All rights reserved. Articles and comments are copyright their respective authors, submission implies license to publish on this web site. Contents of the archive prior to April 2nd 2004 as well as images and HTML templates were copied from the fabulous original deadly.org with Jose's and Jim's kind permission. This journal runs as CGI with httpd(8) on OpenBSD, the source code is BSD licensed. undeadly \Un*dead"ly\, a. Not subject to death; immortal. [Obs.]