OpenBSD 7.2 Released With Support For Ampere Altra, Apple M2

guest · Oct 20, 2022

by Michael Larabel @michaellarabel - October 20, 2022

[...] Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.2 as the latest version of this popular BSD operating system.

Most notable with OpenBSD 7.2 is now supporting Ampere Altra Arm server processors. After the great success of Ampere Altra on Linux and the success of Altra / Altra Max in the marketplace with being picked up by various public cloud service providers and other organizations, the various BSDs have been working on on Ampere Altra support.
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OpenBSD 7.2 also contains initial support for Apple's M2 SoCs with that reverse-engineering and driver writing work going in-hand with the work being done by Linux developers too on Apple M1/M2 support. Rounding out the exciting Arm enablement work in OpenBSD 7.2 is getting initial support for the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Arm laptop and other hardware making use of the high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC.

Downloads and more details on all the changes with OpenBSD 7.2 can be found via OpenBSD.org.
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