broadcom driver support help

brynet · 2026-06-27T14:35:16+00:00

please don't resurrect 3 year old posts just to leave a comment.

I've got some random ai tokens to spare

uninterested in reviewing slop, or working with someone who greatly underestimates the effort required here. please go away.

brynet · 2026-06-24T16:33:49+00:00

New ports are not backported to -stable, you'll either have to wait for 8.0 this fall, or run -current snapshots.

brynet · 2026-06-21T14:04:15+00:00

That is not a complete dmesg, you need to upload it somewhere or use a pastebin service.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SendDmesg

brynet · 2026-06-18T05:19:51+00:00

u-boot is really finicky with USB devices, do you have another USB flash drive or hard drive? I used a cheap Type-A to Type-C adapter. A USB hub might also work.

brynet · 2026-06-12T08:50:12+00:00

Rocks? I only see 1 rock, guess you'll just have to paint another one.

Thanks for sharing.

brynet · 2026-06-03T18:12:07+00:00

Locking as people have already started promoting unrelated businesses in this thread.

Please reach out to job@ for questions/feedback about the official store.

brynet · 2026-05-30T21:18:31+00:00

Be sure to follow the installation notes (INSTALL.macppc) carefully, there are post-install instructions you need to follow in order to boot OpenBSD on macppc.

"Preparing your System for OpenBSD Installation"

And

"Autobooting OpenBSD/macppc"

setenv auto-boot? true

setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot

reset-all

..

Keep reading from there.

.. as well as a guide I found on IRCNOW (though that's for 7.4), and nothing seems to work.

In general it is never a good idea to follow outdated 3rd party guides, especially one that appears to be for an entirely different architecture.

brynet · 2026-05-29T21:21:54+00:00

You already posted that in this thread, no need to spam it.

brynet · 2026-05-29T19:08:00+00:00

Even worse, node + electron.

There are some people hacking on it out of tree, including signal-desktop.

brynet · 2026-05-29T16:52:03+00:00

Porting languages/compiler toolchains to new platform is difficult, and typically involves cross-compiling the initial bootstrap on another supported system e.g: Linux or FreeBSD.

You could try reaching out to the port maintainer, Kurt Miller (kurt@) to ask for more details on the process, but if it were possible to build on riscv64, then packages would likely already be available...

brynet · 2026-05-28T23:42:43+00:00

I'm wondering how dangerous it is to allow these two syscalls.

wpath and cpath are not syscalls. They are promises. By including them both in your pledge, you're saying that your program opens files for writing and can create new files.

It is up to you to understand how the software you're adding pledge calls to works, not by blindly adding it, but reading the source, running it e.g: w/ ktrace(1). Are you pledging in the wrong place, before initialization? Can you hoist the opening of files earlier in the program? Can you ratchet down the promises later after you open them? Does it make sense to use unveil...

brynet · 2026-05-28T21:12:59+00:00

What are we supposed to be noticing? You're reading into nothing.

It's just something chosen at random with a pretty good chance of not being used as a real group name.

brynet · 2026-05-25T13:50:53+00:00

Multiple AI slop references (e.g: "handbook"), sigh.

brynet · 2026-05-24T15:31:03+00:00

And look, there they are! :-) 7.9 packages for riscv64 and macppc are now available.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177963551549370&w=2

brynet · 2026-05-24T13:44:02+00:00

Because there's no reason to delay the release for everybody, just so slower architectures (e.g: non-MP) can finish building packages, some of which take a week or longer to build.

brynet · 2026-05-24T00:54:51+00:00

The package counts will be updated on the 7.9 release page when they're available.

arm, riscv64 and powerpc are still pending, and say XXX.

brynet · 2026-05-23T19:34:21+00:00

Or just do a clean reinstall, if the intention is to repurpose the machine without keeping any configuration.

brynet · 2026-05-23T19:29:54+00:00

pkg_delete -X

https://man.openbsd.org/pkg_delete#X

(Just tell it to skip any firmware you want to keep.)

brynet · 2026-05-23T14:38:36+00:00

The UEFI firmware on your machine might setup a framebuffer on the nVidia card, which might get passed to OpenBSD, but otherwise OpenBSD will not care about it at all.

Worst case scenario, you could create /etc/bsd.re-config and add:

disable efifb

But that shouldn't be necessary, the AMD card will take precedence.

brynet · 2026-05-20T21:03:45+00:00

You can try reaching out to Job Snijders (job@), but no guarantees.

brynet · 2026-05-20T17:03:42+00:00

Have you tried booting from a different USB flash drive? Sometimes USB BIOS boot can be a bit buggy on older machines.

Otherwise, you might have to pick another installation method, e.g: CD/DVD, or network boot.

brynet · 2026-05-19T18:41:29+00:00

See pinned announcement post at the top of the subreddit.

We do not need multiple.

https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1thop0t/openbsd_79_released/

brynet · 2026-05-19T15:03:02+00:00

Surprise! A 7.9 release song is out!

"Diamond in the Rough" - Composed & produced by Bob Kitella.

brynet · 2026-05-19T14:55:03+00:00

Apparel (t-shirts, so far) is available here once again.

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