Running OpenBSD 5.9 from libreboot without proprietary blobs is possible. Detailed instructions inside.

2016-04-04 Thread silent_wanderer
Libreboot is a free software BIOS replacement, see https://libreboot.org for details. It is a distribution of Coreboot without proprietary blobs, including CPU microcode. All tests were performed with Thinkpad X200, but it should work for most or all libreboot and autoboot machines. Since 5.9, Op

Re: muting keyboard bell broken on amd64 -current?

2016-04-04 Thread lists
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:31:26AM +, li...@ggp2.com wrote: > > Can you reproduce it with an recent original snapshot kernel? > > My kernel is newer than the snapshot on the mirror I checked an hour or > so ago, so I'll wait until a new one hits and test. Using the latest snapshot the problem

Pledge: quota syscall

2016-04-04 Thread Héctor Luis Gimbatti
Greetings, Ive found that the call at line 536 of quota.c (current) causes abort when pledge is required: if(quotactl(fs->fs_file, qcmd, id, (char *)&qup->dqblk) != 0) Is it necessary to include quotactl (SYS_quotactl) in pledge in order to support basecode such as edquota, quota, etc? Thanks -

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

2016-04-04 Thread Nick Bender
Just a couple added memories. Punched cards were my first experience with "copy/paste" - there was a "duplicate card" key on the card machine which would create a duplicate of the card you queued up in the input slot. Of course you could also cut/paste just by moving the card :-). Above the card

Re: W^X enforcement

2016-04-04 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:46:57PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 03/31/2016 11:45 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:44:58AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > [...] > >> I generally reject the addition of security knobs, and push towards > >> making the secur

Re: malloc openbsd awesomness

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
On 2016-04-04 sven falempin wrote: > malloc.conf could be per process ? > > extern char *malloc_options; > malloc_options = "H*>**>*"; > > This would change the behavior of the program, > not other ? True -- http://gmerlin.de OpenPGP: http://gmerlin.de/christopher.pub 2779 7F73 44FD 0736 B67A

Re: Thinkpad T410: fan never slows down

2016-04-04 Thread Stéphane Goujet
Hi Mike, On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Mike Larkin wrote: > I always start by blowing the dust out of the fan vents. Yes, I know "Windows > works fine", but please start with that. Your machine is sufficiently old > that if you've never done that, it's probably time anyway. Someone helped me in private

malloc openbsd awesomness

2016-04-04 Thread sven falempin
malloc.conf could be per process ? extern char *malloc_options; malloc_options = "H*>**>*"; This would change the behavior of the program, not other ? -- - () ascii ribbon campaig

Re: Thinkpad T410: fan never slows down

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Larkin
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:48:18AM +0200, St?phane Goujet wrote: > Hello, > >After several months running OpenBSD 5.7 on my Thinkpad T410, this > problem appeared a few days ago: > > * when the systems starts, the fan is running at moderate speed, > everything is fine. > * after some 10/20

Relative performance in "stacked" RAID setups

2016-04-04 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
Hello, I have a couple Dell machines to play with, both with OpenBSD 5.[89] and some sort of "stacked" RAID setup, involving crypto, mirroring and striping in various orders. I've decided to play a little benchmark game and share some numbers. Machine 1: 5.8, PowerEdge 2970, Opteron 2378 (8 core

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

2016-04-04 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Tinker wrote: ... > 1. Re EIO: I understand a disk write in softdep will compromise/crash the > filesystem. But the error reported below was that it crashes the *OS*. > > It seems to me that crashing the whole OS is a too harsh response to disk > write failure. > >

Re: /usr/sbin/dhcpd -u pledge failure.

2016-04-04 Thread Héctor Luis Gimbatti
A couple of programs are passing "route" to pledge (bgpd.c; iked.c; ...) We have to document the route syscall in pledge (2) > -Original Message- > From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf > Of Philip Higgins > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 01:12 > To: misc@op

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

2016-04-04 Thread Tinker
Reading this "softdep" thread (that is https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142164001816142 ) was quite intriguing. Two followup questions: 1. Re EIO: I understand a disk write in softdep will compromise/crash the filesystem. But the error reported below was that it crashes the *OS*. It see

Re: /usr/sbin/dhcpd -u pledge failure.

2016-04-04 Thread Theo Buehler
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:12:26AM +, Philip Higgins wrote: > Hi, > > When using 'udpsockmode' in dhcpd (-u flag), it first calls > pledge("stdio rpath inet sendfd proc id", NULL) (in udpsock.c) > > then tries > pledge("stdio inet route sendfd", NULL) (back in dhcpd.c) > > The "route" causes

/usr/sbin/dhcpd -u pledge failure.

2016-04-04 Thread Philip Higgins
Hi, When using 'udpsockmode' in dhcpd (-u flag), it first calls pledge("stdio rpath inet sendfd proc id", NULL) (in udpsock.c) then tries pledge("stdio inet route sendfd", NULL) (back in dhcpd.c) The "route" causes it to fail. eg. $ doas dhcpd -u -fd pppx0 Listening on 255.255.255.255:67/udp. d

Re: W^X enforcement

2016-04-04 Thread Florian Weimer
On 03/31/2016 11:45 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:44:58AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > [...] >> I generally reject the addition of security knobs, and push towards >> making the security choice mandatory, as early as possible. We are >> not quite in the po

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Burns
On 2016-04-04 14.58.33 +0700, Tinker wrote: > Is "softdep" dangerous? :-O This thread explains more: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142164001816142&w=2

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-04 Thread Tinker
On 2016-04-02 17:22, Karel Gardas wrote: .. so basically the situation is like with the current softdep which is also dangerous in slow-write-drive low-memory situation and yet it's in tree. Is "softdep" dangerous? :-O I thought it was a benevolent filesystem optimization, is it malevolent or

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-04 Thread Martijn Rijkeboer
> I have more up to date versions of these patches around here. > > The problem with them is that fundamentally, the WAPBL implementation > as it is assumes that it may infinitely steal > buffers from the buffer cache and hold onto them indefinitely - and it > assumes it can always get buffers from

Re: doas.conf cmd with argument(s)

2016-04-04 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:26:50AM +0200, Tim van der Molen wrote: > Philip Guenther (2016-04-01 23:47 +0200): > > Sooo close. To quote doas.conf(5): > > > > The rules have the following format: > > > >permit|deny [options] identity [as target] [cmd command [args > > ...]] > ..