OpenBSD 6.1 Released: ARM64 Platform Support & More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenBSD 6.1 Released: ARM64 Platform Support & More

Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 6.1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBSD-6.1-Released

[rockworldmi]

Nice ...

[aht0]

Looks like solid release. I especially like the wireless improvements and added Estonian keyboard support (I've been substituting it with German or Finnish layouts so far).
But.. still no TRIM support and related to it, FFS file system feels rather sluggish.

[kpedersen]

Am I correct in thinking x86 and x86_64 builds are now compiled with Clang? If so, is anyone noticing faster binaries?

Very much looking forward to the upgrade, just need to finish off this week first haha

[brad0]

Am I correct in thinking x86 and x86_64 builds are now compiled with Clang? If so, is anyone noticing faster binaries?

That is incorrect. Clang is currently only used on aarch64. But the plan is to migrate amd64 and i386 to Clang for the next release (maybe lld too as is used on aarch64 also).

[aht0]

Am I correct in thinking x86 and x86_64 builds are now compiled with Clang? If so, is anyone noticing faster binaries?

Very much looking forward to the upgrade, just need to finish off this week first haha

dmesg did not offer any clues, neither nay or yay. Tried cli..

$ uname -srm
OpenBSD 6.1 amd64
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/amd64-unknown-openbsd6.1/4.2.1/specs
Target: amd64-unknown-openbsd6.1
Configured with: OpenBSD/amd64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 20070719
$ clang
/bin/ksh: clang: not found

[rockworldmi]

According to https://www.openbsd.org/61.html : New/extended platforms:

• New arm64 platform, using clang(1) as the base system compiler.