Many thanks, as always, to the folks behind 7.5 upgrading smoothly on my two TalosII power9 machines, one of which is the test build machine for the Go team's openbsd-ppc64.
As a security move, I put PCI Intel network cards in my machines because the (presumed vulnerable) BMC is accessible from the motherboard network ports. Dmesg for the Go builder machine was sent as usual to dm...@openbsd.org and posted at https://n2vi.com/t.dmesg. As you can see there, the powerpc64 release build does not include the em driver. My usual workaround is to download the latest src tree, then sysupgrade, then recompile the kernel including em. This time the rebuilt kernel failed with lots of Bad system call (core dumped) messages. So I moved my network cable back to the motherboard for the time being. It is not a bad thing for the official Go builder to be running an official release anyway. But it would be nice to have em. I'd welcome advice on what I should be doing better. Maybe get a Broadcom PCI card?
