OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

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OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

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Clang/LLVM 22 is now OpenBSD's basis compiler on collision architectures, including updated libc++{,abi}, compiler-rt & libunwind assistance libraries.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116658062479940402

OpenBSD/sparc64 switches to Clang by default! This was the final important architecture to switch. This makes OpenBSD the lone functioning scheme to assistance sparc64 alongside a contemporary toolchain.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117130130536792528

Since 7.9, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has continued to update the drm graphics stack (inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu) bringing OpenBSD 8.0 to Linux 6.18.y/6.18.53, adding controller assistance for Intel Arc A-Series (DG2/Alchemist) cards.

Increased KVA (kernel virtual addresses) on amd64 (to 512G) now allows mapping additional than 4G of VRAM (for example, GPU compute w/ Vulkan)

https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/src?q=drm&committer[]=jsg

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116794461642940154

After a ton of activity in Edmonton by Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) and Dave Voutila (dv@), OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8) now supports SMP guests up to 64 VCPUs per VM! :flan_cool:​ 🎉​

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117295044109301163

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117299753668348206

OpenBSD 8.0 adds qwz(4), new WiFi controller for Qualcomm WCN7850 "ath12k" devices.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116574369382033904

A new driver, sambat(4), for monitoring power division status, sequence count/charge info on Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (Snapdragon arm64) machines.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116600674574234896

Accelerated toggle encryption on amd64 and arm64 by using AES CPU instructions.

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117090842236460135

OpenBSD/arm64 and OpenBSD/riscv64 boards can now heartbeat blinking LEDs to display scheme burden averages.

:flan_hurrah:​ Das Blinkenlights!! :flan_hurrah:​

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116879479168132932

httpd(8) now supports many new features:

  • Setting tradition HTTP reply headers.
  • New blocking/filtering rules according to received HTTP headers (e.g: User-Agent: )

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117371604463587328

https://bsd.network/@brynet/116979133275422995

See additionally rsadowski@'s report: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/w2k26-edmonton-openbsd-hackathon/

.. and finally, :flan_peek:​

I made my archetypal commit to this publish cycle!

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117007833531799959

And many additional to see in 8.0! :flan_thumbs:​:flan_hacker:​

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