From owner-freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Sun Dec 20 19:12:03 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cloud@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC194C9044 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:12:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raf+FY=1f480be4@rafal.net) Received: from smtp-out-4.mxes.net (smtp-out-4.mxes.net [IPv6:2605:d100:2f:10::315]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CzXKH0V0qz3NYK for ; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raf+FY=1f480be4@rafal.net) Received: from Customer-MUA (mua.mxes.net [10.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A0246759FB; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:11:54 -0500 (EST) From: Rafal Lukawiecki Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AWS Graviton (t4g) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:11:53 +0000 Message-Id: References: <01000176816d1718-26a08928-e08c-466a-8550-552bc746d81f-000000@email.amazonses.com> Cc: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <01000176816d1718-26a08928-e08c-466a-8550-552bc746d81f-000000@email.amazonses.com> To: Colin Percival X-Mailer: iPad Mail (18C66) X-Sent-To: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4CzXKH0V0qz3NYK X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.50 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[mxes.net:s=mta,rafal.net:s=tm]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2605:d100:2f:10::/112]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[2605:d100:2f:10::315:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[mxes.net:+,rafal.net:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[rafal.net,reject]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[2605:d100:2f:10::315:from]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; ASN(0.00)[asn:19844, ipnet:2605:d100::/32, country:US]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[FY=1f480be4]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-cloud] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.34 X-BeenThere: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD on cloud platforms \(EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:12:04 -0000 > On 20 Dec 2020, at 18:33, Colin Percival wrote: >=20 > Things mostly work. The remaining issues are: >=20 > * The EC2 API "shutdown" / "reboot" message is sent via a pl061 GPIO devic= e > and we're dropping it on the floor; consequently "reboot" does nothing at > all, while "shutdown" does nothing until EC2 times out and does a hard > poweroff (without filesystems being unmounted etc). >=20 > * Device hotplug doesn't work (ACPI issues?) so you need to manually resca= n > after attaching new disks. >=20 > * FreeBSD doesn't boot on "bare metal" Graviton instances, due to missing > some drivers. (NetBSD works though -- anyone want to port their code?) >=20 > Oh, and a generic ARM issue: It's not a Tier 1 platform yet, so freebsd-up= date > doesn't work and packages aren't always as up-to-date as on x86. But I th= ink > those are being worked on... > --=20 > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid= Many thanks, Colin, this is super-helpful. Do you have, by any chance, an AM= I-maker for 12.2 that works with t4g? Rafal Lukawiecki=20=