Plans to port the amdgpu(4) driver? (=to support Radeons made 2014/2015 and after.) Hardware/other donations needed?

2018-04-25 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi! Radeon drivers are specific per Radeon microarchitecture and Radeon microarchitecture version. The Radeon microarchitectures to date are TS 1, TS 2, TS 3, GCN 1, GCN 2, GCN 3, GCN 4, GCN 5 (TS = TeraScale and GCN = Graphics Core Next), in that ascending chronological order. [1] First, than

PCI passthrough for VMM thoughts?

2018-04-29 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi Mike, First, thanks for vmm! One practical question: Did you think about PCI passthrough? If so, what's your perspective on it? There were no previous mentions of it on misc@ so here it is. Also I have no idea what degree of complexity this is. E.g., a VM guest can get exclusive control of

Open source RISC-V 64bit w ECC RAM & PCIe this summer

2018-05-17 Thread Joseph Mayer
4-core (5-core?) 1.5Ghz, 8GB DDR4 ECC RAM, two PCIe slots (one one-lane and one two-lane PCIe 2.0?), SATA, gigabit ethernet, microSD, HDMI, UART. https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expansion-board 21 more available in lower li

Re: Programming for OpenBSD

2018-05-30 Thread Joseph Mayer
Kevin, This is a meandering and irrelevant email. Please don't email more irrelevant ramblings. If you have practical Unix use or development questions you can ask on IRC, here or elsewhere. Joseph On May 31, 2018 11:41 AM, Kevin Burke wrote: > Hey guys, > ..

Re: Reading files faster than raw disk?

2018-06-15 Thread Joseph Mayer
Factors that affect speed are: /dev/sd* * are cached (cache has a 3GB cap presently since the DMA pushback diff not was experienced as stable and therefore rolled back), which may make access appear faster * I think the underlying hardware access is always split to 512B (or in certain

Re: Ratgod leadership?

2018-07-10 Thread Joseph Mayer
"Ywe"/nyt.cloud owner, I have filed an abuse complaint at www.domainname.shop asking them to discontinue your domain/email/hosting deal with them, and filed a request for your domain name at https://rddsrequest.nic.cloud/ . I have also asked them to not serve you personally in the future as you c

Re: Can I ask a question about PF Here?

2018-07-17 Thread Joseph Mayer
On July 17, 2018 3:18 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-07-16, Antonino Sidoti n...@sidoti.id.au wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Before I go into to much detail, where is the appropriate place to get help > > for PF related problems? I am really stuck and need some assistance in > > understanding PF

..Re AMDGPU Re: Plans to port the amdgpu(4) driver? (=to support Radeons made 2014/2015 and after.) Hardware/other donations needed?

2018-07-27 Thread Joseph Mayer
On April 25, 2018 7:08 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: .. > > The Radeon GPU:s are important in OpenBSD's ecosystem as they are the > > only way to increase graphics functionality, that not involves changing > > CPU to Intel's latest, and hence change motherboard and other hardware. > > Do you have plans

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

2018-08-27 Thread Joseph Mayer
On August 26, 2018 3:16 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: .. > I have a bunch of various SBC and they all suck pretty bad for network > tasks. Fine for random server tasks but don't put them in your network > path unless you like artificial bottlenecks. Please note that the RK3399 (e.g. Pine64 ROCK6

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

2018-08-27 Thread Joseph Mayer
NICs. > > Sustained duplex Gigabit is mostly achievable. But again for the > price/perfomance the n3160 that currently is my gateway blows it out > of the water. And the firefly was twice as expensive. > > On 28 August 2018 at 00:15, Joseph Mayer joseph.ma...@protonmail.com wrote:

Re: Need an advice: Raspberry Pi3 B+ or Pine64 ROCK64

2018-08-28 Thread Joseph Mayer
On August 28, 2018 3:04 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > On 28 August 2018 at 05:26, Joseph Mayer joseph.ma...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > Joel, > > Are you saying you gave up on using the PCIe at all? > > There's a 4-lane PCIe connector on the Rock64 right, aren

Re: PF possibly causing weird SSL issues ?

2018-09-18 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 8:26 AM, Tim Jones wrote: > > Check the time and date. > > And enable ntpd if you already haven't. > > Time and data are fine. > > NTP already runs extensively on this network, so setting it up on OpenBSD > instances was a subconcious nobrainer. ;-) Tim, The m

How effectiate login.conf changes in console? ("ksh -l" does not)

2018-10-29 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi, After having changed /etc/login.conf I'd like to effectuate the changes directly in the console, without doing a logout-relogin cycle. Running "ksh -l" does *not* effectuate login.conf changes but only re-runs the profile script [1]. Running "login" asks for username and password which seems

Re: How effectiate login.conf changes in console? ("ksh -l" does not)

2018-10-29 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:56 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:40 PM Joseph Mayer joseph.ma...@protonmail.com > wrote: > > > After having changed /etc/login.conf I'd like to effectuate the > > changes directly in the console, without doing

Why&how do "sh" and "ksh" differ in behavior e.g. PS1 presentation, while their binaries are equal?

2018-10-30 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi misc@, I noticed that sh and ksh have different behaviors from doing "export PS1='\[\033[01;35m\]COLOR\$ '", here "sh" shows "\[\033[01;35m\]COLOR#" in gray, while "ksh" shows "COLOR#" in purple. sh and ksh's binaries are equivalent. I do see that sh's and ksh's man pages differ, e.g. http://

Re: Why&how do "sh" and "ksh" differ in behavior e.g. PS1 presentation, while their binaries are equal?

2018-10-31 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:33 PM, Sebastien Marie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 08:11:24AM +0000, Joseph Mayer wrote: > > > On a quick sourcecode check I didn't see any code paths e.g. > > "if (argv[0] matches "ksh") { something } else { something

Re: Why&how do "sh" and "ksh" differ in behavior e.g. PS1 presentation, while their binaries are equal?

2018-10-31 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 10:19 PM, Joseph Mayer wrote: > On Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:33 PM, Sebastien Marie sema...@online.fr wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 08:11:24AM +0000, Joseph Mayer wrote: > > > > > On a quick sourcecode check I didn't s

How make tmux on start, create a couple of windows and start given programs in them?

2018-11-02 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi, I have one single command for starting and (re)attaching to tmux, and it's "tmux -u new -t main". It works as it should. On each fresh tmux start, tmux runs /etc/tmux.conf , and so I put some general configuration in there like "set -g status-bg SOMECOLOR". I'd now like tmux to create five w

colorls: How to make the blue bright for readability, and a note about its origins

2018-11-05 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi, This is how to make OpenBSD's colorls show directories bright blue, instead of dark blue which may be too dark to be readable on some screens: export LSCOLORS="Ex" As pointed out elsewhere colorls is taken in use as default ls by: alias ls="colorls -G" The colorls port [1] is in

Re: OpenBSD 6.6 amd64 iavf(4) iavf / SR-iov 40G NIC lots of Jitter

2019-10-20 Thread Joseph Mayer
Tom, is not the jitter you are experiencing totally normal overhead for a hypervisor. Someone would need to correct me on this one but I'm surprised that you are surprised about the jitter, considering it's a VM. Please run OpenBSD on bare metal?? Joseph ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sund

Userland PCI drivers possible in OpenBSD?

2020-01-09 Thread Joseph Mayer
Maybe this topic is better suited for tech@, you tell: Is there some way I can implement PCI drivers in userland in OpenBSD? On a quick Internet search, see some discussion for Linux and NetBSD e.g. [1] however nothing in OpenBSD. I may be interested in operating some PCI device manually from my

Use encrypted partition from other OS via FUSE, e.g. EXT2 in dm-crypt or Veracrypt?

2020-02-12 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi misc@, Just curious if there is any way to use an encrypted partition in OpenBSD, that can be used from Linux/Mac OS/Windows also. OpenBSD's cryptoraid does not have any Linux/Mac OS/Windows drivers, right. OpenBSD does have built-in EXT2 support, which Linux then supports natively and Mac OS

GPD Pocket (world's smallest higher-specs 7" laptop) dmesg

2017-12-04 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi! This laptop http://www.gpd.hk/pocket.asp works fine on OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.2, save for that the APM doesn't work - suspend doesn't work and the battery doesn't report right, or even charge, in OpenBSD, will follow up about that separately. 8GB RAM, 4x 2.56Ghz Atom x7-Z8750, 128GB eMMC, USB3,

GPD Pocket (world's smallest higher-specs 7" laptop) dmesg

2017-12-04 Thread Joseph Mayer
(Sigh, I see Proton Mail made a weird encoding. Hope I fixed this by setting "Composer Mode" to "plaintext" in the settings.) Hi! This laptop http://www.gpd.hk/pocket.asp works fine on OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.2, save for that the APM doesn't work - suspend doesn't work and the battery doesn't report

GPD Pocket runs X via wsfb driver, with hardware rotation. Intel HD 405 unsupported.

2017-12-05 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi, The GPD Pocket has Intel HD 405 graphics, which is not supported ( http://man.openbsd.org/intel.4 ). Furthermore, the laptop display is rotated 90 degrees by default, so the text console looks messed up: a small blob of text in the middle of the display, that is rotated 90 degrees. Howeve

How to make ProtonMail compatible with misc@ Re: Do not give-up on marketing

2017-12-05 Thread Joseph Mayer
Here is how to make ProtonMail compatible with misc@: Click "Settings" up to the right. Click the "Appearance" tab in the menu. Under the "Composer mode" section there's a dropdown with two options, it's preset to "Normal". Switch it to "Plain Text". This email was sent from ProtonMail. I pr

Re: Disable nVIDIA GPU?

2021-01-01 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi Andrea, Is the "Hybrid mode" set in your BIOS? That one should direct the Intel GPU to the built-in LCD. Is your problem that even despite this the GPU PCI device is still burning electricity? Can you detail the trick you did on Linux to disable the dedicated GPU there? Joseph ‐‐‐ Origin

Re: lenovo thinkpoad with nvidia and intel graphics?

2021-01-01 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:14, Tommi Pernila wrote: > > I have a T430s with both Intel integrated graphics and discrete NVidia > > graphics. I disabled the latter at the BIOS level since Xenocara > > doesn't support it, and the system worked fine with just the integrated > > Intel graphics. > >

Just to doublecheck, is softraid sandwhiching possible (FAQ says not)

2021-02-13 Thread Joseph Mayer
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE says: "Note that "stacking" softraid modes (mirrored drives and encryption, for example) is not supported at this time." I had the impression that it's possible. Please feel free to doubleconfirm this one. Here https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&

Swap partition should equal exactly RAM size, for crash dump+savecore(8) to always work on crash?

2021-03-13 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi, Apologies if I missed any earlier clarification on the mailing list of this question: What should the size of my swap partition be exactly, at least, for it to guaranteedly be big enough to contain a whole kernel crash dump, if the kernel crashes? I would presume the exact size of the RAM, o

Re: Swap partition should equal exactly RAM size, for crash dump+savecore(8) to always work on crash?

2021-03-14 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Sunday, 14 March 2021 08:46, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:17:05AM +0000, Joseph Mayer wrote: > > > Hi, > > Apologies if I missed any earlier clarification on the mailing list of > > this question: > > What should the size of my swap partitio

FFS sync/async/softdep mount opts clarifications&doc gap q&how stable is softdep now?

2021-03-14 Thread Joseph Mayer
Hi misc@! (Copying posters to the previous threads on this topic) I just took the time to go through the ML archive's writeups between now and 2015, about FFS mount options in respect of synchronicity and especially softdep. Here I like to bring up four points to conversation: 1) OpenBSD's sync

Re: FFS sync/async/softdep mount opts clarifications&doc gap q&how stable is softdep now?

2021-03-14 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:31, Joseph Mayer wrote: > Hi misc@! (Copying posters to the previous threads on this topic) Pondering further: 5) "mount -o sync" is practically never useful, isn't it so?: mount's default synchronicity setting is that data is written asyn

Re: I patched my kernel

2019-03-27 Thread Joseph Mayer
What about it? Solving what etc. . ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:17 AM, sven falempin wrote: > and I feel safer now, > thank you > > Nicolas Collignon, Corentin Bayet, Eloi Vanderbeken, > Luca Moro at Synacktiv.com > > and special thanks to > > Maxime Villard >

Re: RS-232 serial to ethernet

2019-04-08 Thread Joseph Mayer
Daniel, Ethernet to serial is normally done using ppp [1]. Why add unneeded hardware. Do you have RJ45 or RS232 on the OpenBSD machine already? Joseph [1] http://man.openbsd.org/ppp ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:04 AM, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > Hi misc@! > > I wa

Re: 10GBit network performance on OpenBSD 6.4

2019-04-08 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 3:28 AM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Anatoli [m...@anatoli.ws] wrote: > > I've seen extremely slow HDD performance in OpenBSD, like 12x slower than on > > Linux, also no filesystem cache, so depending on your HDD with scp you may > > be hitting the max throughput for the FS,

Re: bwfm bcm43569

2019-06-27 Thread Joseph Mayer
On Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:26, 3 wrote: > third, the only one task that obsd can solve is to be a router. > nothing more but even this task obsd can not solve adequately. Babut, You are not correct, OpenBSD is a full Unix/BSD implementation and can do most anything BSD/Unix can. I guess in the

Re: How to clear the screen correctly in ksh

2019-07-04 Thread Joseph Mayer
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, 4 July 2019 16:39, Alexis wrote: > Максим a23s4a2...@yandex.ru writes: > > In bash I can press Ctrl-l to clear the screen. > > In ksh this key combination does not work. I can clear the > > screen only > > using the command "clear". > > How can I do