Sepherosa Ziehau’s got a patch that updates the em(4) driver (that’s a network chipset, if it’s unfamiliar) to the latest version from Intel’s website. Give it a try if you’ve got the hardware.  It’ll be in the tree in two weeks.

bfconfig has been removed, as ifconfig now contains all of brconfig’s features.

Producing a trace from kdgb can be difficult, especially if the crash involved kernel modules whose symbols are not necessarily visible.  Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has directions on how to resolve this.

Matthew Dillon has removed the thread pointer argument from all device operations.  What does this mean?  Glad you asked.

Hubert Feyrer found a handy way to view/keep those embedded website movies (like on YouTube) that are difficult to play on BSD: keepvid.com.

Hubert Feyrer put together an interesting chart that shows the Makefile dependencies in pkgsrc.  I’ve always wondered how people make directional charts from text data like that…

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has committed his support for building a AMD64-native world.  (Not kernel, not yet)  I have an example link; it touched a lot of files.  Check commits@ for more.

As part of a larger discussion, Freddie Cash described some possible IDE disk and CD combinations that make sense for various tasks.

Sepherosa Ziehau has two patches for people to try: miibus(4) for network PHY chips and nfe(4), for NVIDIA ethernet controllers.