install the sets, install70.img

I am attempting to install openbsd on a maestro evolve iii notebook. I am using the install70.img from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ written to a usb drive. Installation prompts with responses as follows: boot> (I let this time out) (I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or

Re: Fsck_ffs seems to have trashed /usr/local

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:09:25PM +0100, Konrad Sowula wrote: > to keep things short, rebooting my vps using 'Server restart' in vultr > control panel trashed my /usr/local directory The VULTR "Restart Server" option explicitly says "Are you sure you want to restart your server? This is a

Re: dmesg - cpu, smt, core, package

Doing a wrap up, how an Intel i5 family cpu is seen by OpenBSD? The family has 4 cores / 4 threads per package. If someone can check please, with dmesg and sysctl. Thanks.

Re: dmesg - cpu, smt, core, package

pre-Ryzen AMD CPUs did not have SMT, but they had "CMT" or "clustered multithreading" which is the shared-FPU stuff, hw.smt=0 disables that too on these CPUs. I believe this was intentional as this kind of resource sharing between cores comes with inherent risk-- FPU state can contain things like