Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:32:58 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>, freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AWS Graviton (t4g) Message-ID: <01000176816d1723-d597829f-c214-462e-b79d-1340448cfbc5-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <55467346-CDAE-4F73-80F6-6115C063916D@rafal.net> References: <55467346-CDAE-4F73-80F6-6115C063916D@rafal.net>
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On 12/20/20 10:04 AM, Rafal Lukawiecki via freebsd-cloud wrote: > Has anyone got any experience running FreeBSD 12 on AWS Graviton instances like t4g? I am considering switching from t3 due to what seems like a better sticker price. Any warnings? Things mostly work. The remaining issues are: * The EC2 API "shutdown" / "reboot" message is sent via a pl061 GPIO device 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). * Device hotplug doesn't work (ACPI issues?) so you need to manually rescan after attaching new disks. * FreeBSD doesn't boot on "bare metal" Graviton instances, due to missing some drivers. (NetBSD works though -- anyone want to port their code?) Oh, and a generic ARM issue: It's not a Tier 1 platform yet, so freebsd-update doesn't work and packages aren't always as up-to-date as on x86. But I think those are being worked on... -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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