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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:08:59 -0700
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem building aarch64 AMI on 11/amd64
Message-ID:  <20190829050859.GA76856@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <0100016cdbae0218-a9e91de2-9896-46af-8282-e8514876ea00-000000@email.amazonses.com>
References:  <20190829041448.GA76344@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <0100016cdbae0218-a9e91de2-9896-46af-8282-e8514876ea00-000000@email.amazonses.com>

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:41:49AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 2019-08-28 21:14, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > I'm attempting to build a FreeBSD 11.3/aarch64 AMI for EC2 based on the
> > instructions in
> > 
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-cloud/2015-April/000015.html
> > 
> > on my FreeBSD 11.3/amd64 box.
> 
> I didn't MFC all of the bits needed for building ARM64 EC2 images to
> stable/11, because some ARMy people told me that it was very unlikely
> that the arm64 bits in FreeBSD 11 would boot.
> 
> It's possible that this has changed, but given the level of doubt I
> heard from them I suspect you're better off looking for someone who can
> give you access to real hardware.

Thanks Colin!  I will stop banging my head against the wall then :)

There is a ref11 box listed on the wiki, but I can't seem to connect, so
I'll ping cluster admin and see if I can find out what is up with it.

-- Greg



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