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What is new in OpenBSD/sparc64?

April 26, 2017openbsd sparc64

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What is new in OpenBSD/sparc64?

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Mark Kettenis: The most exciting new functionality in 4.5 for OpenBSD/sparc64 is that we now support virtual I/O on sun4v through the vdsk(4) and vnet(4) drivers. This means that it is now possible to run OpenBSD in a logical domain on machines with UltraSPARC T1, T2 and T2+ processors. On some of Sun’s CoolThreads servers, you can even give a logical domain running OpenBSD access to real hardware. This makes it possible to run a pf firewall on the same machine as the services you’re trying to protect, without compromising security. Those services could even be hosted on a logical domain running Solaris. There are also quite a few improvements in our support for real hardware, including an accelerated framebuffer driver for Sun Expert3D, Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, XVR-600 and XVR-1200 framebuffers and a matching X driver.