Emile "iMil" :netbsd: Heitor
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Emile "iMil" :netbsd: Heitor
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FOSS contributor, NetBSD developer. DJ'ing and composing in my spare time * https://imil.net/fosscard/ * twitch.tv/imilnb

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@imil, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Is it just me or bsd.cafe is way faster? cc @stefano
February 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
TODO: absolutely test urunc with smolBSD ❤️❤️❤️
February 1, 2026 at 12:47 PM
LUTINOS
La video du talk sur smolBSD au FOSDEM est en ligne !
https://video.fosdem.org/2026/k3201/BGPF3M-smolbsd.av1.webm
February 1, 2026 at 9:22 AM
LUTINOS! *LE* live d'anthologie d'hier soir en direct de Belgique pour la before du FOSDEM 2026 est en ligne ! https://www.youtube.com/live/QFceQcJo61A?si=33pm7hXNetZnQCJA
January 31, 2026 at 10:04 AM
If you happen to be at #fosdem2026 come and see us Saturday at 15:50 at the BSD devroom! https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BGPF3M-smolbsd/ witness the fastest booting BSD UNIX!
January 29, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Lots of unvisible changes in smolBSD disk creation: drives are now gpt/wedge partitionned (no, not that gpt, go back to sleep), enabling NAME= booting, mounting and ordering. More to come...
January 28, 2026 at 6:38 AM
See you Saturday! #fosdem2026 cc @khorben
January 27, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Creating and booting a minimal NetBSD USB stick created using smolBSD Dockerfile new capability!
https://indymotion.fr/w/7e2rQwCbb3X74nGWvYgkdi
Building a minimal NetBSD bootable USB stick using a smolBSD Dockerfile
This is screen capture of an interactive session where we build a NetBSD USB bootable stick using smolBSD's Dockerfile interpretation feature. More info at https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD
indymotion.fr
January 26, 2026 at 9:14 AM
January 23, 2026 at 5:33 PM
smolBSD services can now be created using... a Dockerfile!
Here's an MVP https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/blob/main/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.dockinx
And the less-than-100-lines script to make it possble https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/blob/main/docker2svc.sh
January 23, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Morning idea: how about adding the ability to read Dockerfile syntax to smolBSD... 🤔
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Eyh les lutinos, je sais que certains dans l'assemblée on surnagé les épisodes sur la mémoire virtuelle, j'ai trouvé que celui-ci, de la série sur xv6, est assez bien fait. C'est sur du RISC-V mais le principe est le même le même que ce qu'on a vu en x86 […]
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January 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
LUTINOS! le live d'hier soir est en ligne, intro:

En juillet 2025, une bande d'une incroyable valeur a été découverte dans un cagibi de l'Université de l'Utah : une version unique de UNIX v4.
Dans ce live, Histoire et boot du mythique système datant de 1973 !
https://youtu.be/pmoFy_gZyZE
January 21, 2026 at 10:56 AM
LUTINOS! Ce soir on branche la DeLorean sur 1973, on va faire booter UNIX v4, le père de tous les systèmes modernes !
Rendez-vous à 19h30 sur https://twitch.tv/imilnb
January 20, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Rejoice! As a new feature has landed in the smol kernel 🎉
I've added pv(4) glue for the qemufwcfg(4) driver which allows to pass data / files from the host to the guest via a mountable virtual drive https://wiki.osdev.org/QEMU_fw_cfg (as always, 3rd party websites explain the feature better than […]
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January 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Boot time and size matter!
At FOSDEM 2026, @khorben and I will bepresenting the fastest-booting BSD UNIX kernel (NetBSD microvm) and how it’s used in smolBSD, a minimalist system builder with a tiny footprint. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BGPF3M-smolbsd/
January 5, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Eh les lutinos... un dernier live pour cette année ?
Rendez-vous à 19h30 pour un OPENBAR_FINAL_2025_REPACK.DIZ!@#!@#
https://twitch.tv/imilnb
December 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Fab, the author of smolBSD service "games" https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/games is back at it with the "lhv-tools" service! https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/lhv-tools a set of self hosted tools https://lehollandaisvolant.net/tout/tools/ by Le […]
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December 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
These NVMM and QEMU (pkgsrc for now) patches add a new `prefault` parameter to the nvmm QEMU accel so guest physical addresses are prefaulted instead of demand-paged, resulting in a modest x10 to x50 kernel load speed https://imil.net/NetBSD/nvmm_prefault.patch
December 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
If you feel like reviewing a low-level x86 feature would brighten your day, I invite you to review this implementation of x86's MTRR for the NVMM hypervisor: https://imil.net/NetBSD/nvmm_mtrr_msrs.patch specs: https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/671447
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
LEZGOOOOOO!!!
December 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Ow ow ooowww #smolbsd can now build BIOS bootable images!... i.e. we're opening to non-virtual world https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/biosboot
smolBSD/service/biosboot at main · NetBSDfr/smolBSD
smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs - NetBSDfr/smolBSD
github.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
LUTINOS!
Le live d'hier est en ligne, au programme: les dernières news de smolBSD et la suite de l'initiation à git, avec cette fois l'interaction avec un repo public Gitlab! (ouais j'ai retrouvé où on colle les clés XD) https://youtu.be/jI-BhRielJo
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM