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+=== Hackathon 202606 -- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
+
+Links: +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/202606[Hackathon/202606 Wiki Page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon/202606[] +
+link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon[FreeBSD Hackathon Wiki Page] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/Hackathon[]
+
+Contact: Joe Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
+
+After link:https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/[BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa], some members of the community gathered for a hackathon at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
+Across the three repositories, 93 commits landed with the tag `Event: Halifax Hackathon 202606`.
+
+Much of this work is described in separate report entries, but here is a high-level summary.
+The bulk of the src work focused on CPU power management.
+Most of it landed in man:hwpstate_intel[4], which received fixes for several MSR and uninitialized variable bugs, moved the energy performance preference to an 8-bit scale, and replaced `thread_lock()` and `sched_bind()` with IPIs.
+A new `cpu_get_pcpuid()` KPI was also added and adopted by both man:hwpstate_intel[4] and `hwpstate_amd`.
+A sweep through the ACPI code tightened the types of the sleep and wake event handlers, removed unused disable flags from `acpi_cpu`, man:acpi_hpet[4], and `acpi_timer`, and made the kernel refuse S4 when S4BIOS is not supported.
+For laptop support, a new `hrfkill` driver was committed for the airplane key on some Framework laptops, evdev reporting of the microphone mute key was added to man:acpi_ibm[4], and man:iichid[4] was changed to always release its interrupt resource.
+Other src commits touched libusb, libdtrace, libcxxrt, man:ifconfig[8], `sched_ule`, and a number of manual pages.
+In ports, the default Python was switched to 3.12, a new package:databases/py-oracledb[] port was added, and a package:sysutils/consolekit2[] change enabled S0ix suspend on 16-CURRENT.
+The Emacs ports received various updates and improvements; the R, Jenkins, and some bioinformatics ports were updated.
+The documentation work added a Handbook section on ZFS native encryption, updated the geli encrypted swap instructions, and improved the FDP Primer guidance on generating patches with context.
+
+Here are the raw hackathon commits across the link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/?qt=grep&q=Event%3A.*Halifax+Hackathon+202606[doc], link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/?qt=grep&q=Event%3A.*Halifax+Hackathon+202606[ports], and link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=grep&q=Event%3A.*Halifax+Hackathon+202606[src] repositories.
+
+While most of the time was spent hacking, it was not all work, as link:https://p.obiw.ac/s/hfx[the photos] show.
+Participants spent some evenings and half a day on fun.
+
+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation (meal)

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