Re: [LDWG] Hello

In the spirit of modernization, I installed 15-CURRENT on an AMD Phoenix 
(RDNA 3000 series, current gen) laptop, and seem to be running into a 
kernel panic in SDDM with the amdgpu driver, not much unlike this issue: 
https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/311

My KDE desktop works fine if I just startx instead. So I suppose I'll 
poke around this SDDM issue more. It's kind of nasty because I was only 
able to catch it in the kernel debugger once. Most of the times, the 
system seems to hang and becomes unresponsive.

Marc

On 11/9/24 10:03, Chris Moerz wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Marc Sunet wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Chris, I just filled the survey.
>>
>> My main question at this moment is how exactly to get started with FreeBSD
>> development. I am looking to install 15-CURRENT on a laptop right now and then
>> take it from there.
>>
>> Marc
> That's probably a good start. In terms of development, there's many places
> you can start with. You'll have the choice between user space and kernel
> development, where the first is likely easier to start with.
>
> There's an abstract overview on contributing on the documentation portal:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/
>
> Maybe you've already seen this, then again I figured it can't hurt
> mentioning it.
>
> If you feel you really want to get into the guts, there's a few books I
> can recommend:
>   * Kirk McKusick's Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
>     System, 2nd Edition
>   * Joseph Kong's Designing BSD Rootkits as well as FreeBSD Device Drivers
>
> Those have helped me get at least some degree of understanding how things
> work under the hood - though I'm certainly far from being an expert.
>
> You'll notice that in terms of base and kernel development, you'll only
> need your C skill - there's no C++ involved there.
>
> Hope that helps with getting set up. Feel free to ask if you have any
> further or other questions.
>
> chris
>
>> On 11/9/24 09:05, Chris Moerz wrote:
>>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Marc Sunet wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> This is Marc, we met at the summit. I am interested in helping out with
>>>> the
>>>> FreeBSD laptop/desktop effort and attending the monthly meeting. I am new
>>>> to
>>>> FreeBSD, but I have been writing C and C++ for a while.
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Marc,
>>>
>>> thanks for reaching out! You're certainly welcome to join!
>>>
>>> We have not set a date yet, but I've set up a survey to look for potential
>>> dates and times. I guess this is as good an opportunity as any other to
>>> publish it.
>>>
>>> I'm hoping to find the best option at which the majority can join live.
>>>
>>> Here's the link, I'd appreciate it, if you provide some feedback:
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaa2quKLTgym38KB1A9GJ66s-PZZpTqqF8VqXeI5WrLEynSA/viewform?usp=sf_link
>>>
>>> Please be advised that during the next few days, I might update with other
>>> dates. I'd love to have some representatives from the Foundation's laptop
>>> effort join as well. If they can't make any of the available options, I
>>> might need to adjust. I'll make sure to post a brief heads up here if I
>>> do.
>>>
>>> I'm planning to draft an agenda for the call soon. Unless someone got
>>> objections, it's going to be a Teams call and we're going to record for
>>> posterity sake.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any questions otherwise!
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
>>