From nobody Sun Aug 29 16:59:53 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-cloud@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAD217A6966 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:59:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [66.165.241.226]) (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-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GyKS95KgVz3pRg; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nomadlogic.org; s=04242021; t=1630256369; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=aHLKkLEV2+GYgBQ2OfOrCI/gFy0anc7hoUEf75e7vH4=; b=d/gzBNOp+vxf6G31tdoldj3g1D7Q88T2B6WbKMxUlZ2yYTyU57yTI/D1m6VdaYmRVNiGbM JPxu0rOUvoDV1cXrZ1Rg+F2n1kOP0XBikU72Lh4xKGU9rgqk/oaQP5Gai3gtMq4tH360m/ NMsEf1J67AaBlzMubqU9EQphfkrQKBE= Received: from [192.168.1.223] (cpe-24-24-163-126.socal.res.rr.com [24.24.163.126]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 1755139d (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: RFC: Switching FreeBSD/EC2 images to UEFI boot To: Colin Percival , "freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org" References: <79c48cc2-5341-2cea-7d6e-4372f7c93245@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <1e1829ab-bf3d-91f4-d21d-424398a899f7@nomadlogic.org> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 09:59:53 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 List-Id: FreeBSD on cloud platforms (EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.) List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-cloud List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <79c48cc2-5341-2cea-7d6e-4372f7c93245@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GyKS95KgVz3pRg X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] Reply-To: pete@nomadlogic.org From: Pete Wright via freebsd-cloud X-Original-From: Pete Wright X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 8/28/21 9:05 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi Cloudy people, > > We have a decision to make and I'm looking for input from the community: > Should FreeBSD's x86 EC2 AMIs be marked as booting using UEFI instead of > the current (default) BIOS boot mode? I am in favor of making UEFI the default.  faster boot times and more parity with linux would both be wins for me.  having said that I've standardized on Nitro instance types a year or so ago, and use AMD instance types for my BSD systems so there would be no downside for me in particular. i did see on twitter that at least one person noted that free credits only apply to T2 instance class systems, so their may be some downside for people investigating moving to EC2 if they want to leverage the free tier.  this make we wonder, do linux vendors provide support for both BIOS and UEFI enabled systems? Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA