OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

sverige wrote: post #3

I saw this last night, plan to order a Pinebook today. Edit: Registered for a Pinebook today, will have look for a board to play with. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the reminder! Registered for one just now myself. I wonder how long the wait is.

Re: OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

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Post by cat199 » Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 3:28 PM UTC

sverige wrote: post #3

I saw this last night, plan to order a Pinebook today. Edit: Registered for a Pinebook today, will have look for a board to play with. Any suggestions?

Don't have 1st hand OpenBSD/arm64 experience but I'd definitely expect the page https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html to be accurate as concerns device support, although I'd expect more drivers to be written. Not a committer but I think supported in this case is talking about system featureset on working hardware & project support (e.g. solid committers, build machines, etc), not meaning all hardware being supported.

I'd probably read the last year-or-so of openbsd-arm list and check the recent commit messges for that part of the tree if that page isn't clear..

Re: OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

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Post by st3fan » Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 4:15 PM UTC

Honest question: what is the big deal about syspatch? I see OpenBSD folks talk about it as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. How is this different from what many distributions have had for more than a decade in the form of apt or yum?

Re: OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

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Post by throwaway2048 » Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 4:48 PM UTC

st3fan wrote: post #6

Honest question: what is the big deal about syspatch? I see OpenBSD folks talk about it as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. How is this different from what many distributions have had for more than a decade in the form of apt or yum?

Its not really, but previously you had to build from sources to apply security/reliability fixes between releases.

Re: OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

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Post by rst » Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 4:48 PM UTC

st3fan wrote: post #6

Honest question: what is the big deal about syspatch? I see OpenBSD folks talk about it as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. How is this different from what many distributions have had for more than a decade in the form of apt or yum?

Just glancing at the man page, atomic rollback kinda jumps out...

Re: OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

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Post by pingiun » Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 5:17 PM UTC

Isn't the official term aarch64?

Re: OpenBSD: arm64 platform now officially supported, and has syspatch(8)

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Post by lima » Sat, Dec 09, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

st3fan wrote: post #6

Honest question: what is the big deal about syspatch? I see OpenBSD folks talk about it as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. How is this different from what many distributions have had for more than a decade in the form of apt or yum?

Windows too!

(sort of)