--- title: FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating... description: FreeBSD's Q2-2026 status report highlights several notable development efforts. A new NTSYNC driver is being built from scratch for FreeBSD, compatible with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-developing-new-ntsync-driver-for-accelerating-windows-nt-sync-primitives-fb1xcltrx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives | daily.dev og:description: FreeBSD's Q2-2026 status report highlights several notable development efforts. A new NTSYNC driver is being built from scratch for FreeBSD, compatible with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/freebsd-developing-new-ntsync-driver-for-accelerating-windows-nt-sync-primitives-fb1xcltrx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fb1xCltRX.png og:image:alt: FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary FreeBSD's Q2-2026 status report highlights several notable development efforts. A new NTSYNC driver is being built from scratch for FreeBSD, compatible with the Linux 7.0 interface, aimed at improving emulated Windows gaming performance by better emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives. Additional work includes porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD via a Foundation intern, desktop and laptop improvements (graphics drivers, WiFi, suspend/resume, Framework Laptop support), scheduler and IPv6 enhancements, and new features in the Sylve system management platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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