Development Updates 09-07-2026

[pkgdemon]

The last weeks have been busy. I started with troubleshooting why File Viewer in Gershwin showed network devices flapping. It turned out to be a deeper issue with mach. Messages were getting lost and there reliability issues with services starting due to multiple paths. I first designed a number of stress tests, and CI checks to verify every service always starts.

What I uncovered from this diagnosing was a lot of tech debt, shortcuts I had taken, stubs unfinished, syscall traps that should have been handled by MIG. After a lot of grinding I can now say that things are ultra reliable and every service now starts properly, with no more flapping.

So after that I came back to the RPI5/500/500+ work I started. I merged work for checking the CPU temp that now works properly. Now I have a working KMS driver for videocore that does 2d only. I will wrap up with 3d working, iokit personalities to autoload everything, and a new image with fan control + throttling enabled for some models that need it.

Aside from that I've revamped the website, less is better, created and organized a roadmap, creating a contributing guide which has the roadmap + epics linked:

https://github.com/nextbsd/nextbsd/wiki/Contributing

So my main objective for now is to finish the videocore KMS this week, and get a new image out. After that I will take a few week break at least to go through the roadmap + epics + tickets further just to keep refining details, moving things around to continue to make the project more contributor friendly. I'll see if anything comes in during that time otherwise I'll determine what's next to work on after having a short break away, and starting fresh.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks!

Shared to r/NextBSD (and I'll repost from there to other subs on Friday) …

[pkgdemon]

Thanks Graham.