From nobody Fri Jul 2 11:51:13 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@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 C89C811E289F for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@freebsd.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (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 (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GGYMV5Cr7z4R2C for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@freebsd.org) Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com (auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.228]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: dch/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9AB2527D27 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@freebsd.org) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D5527C0054 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 07:51:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imap44 ([10.202.2.94]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:51:34 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduledrfeeikedggeefucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpefofgggkfffhffvufgtgfesthhqre dtreerjeenucfhrhhomhepfdffrghvvgcuvehothhtlhgvhhhusggvrhdfuceouggthhes fhhrvggvsghsugdrohhrgheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepfeeukeelgeegiefhkeeige eugfdukeehvdehfeeuffetheefjeetkeevgfdthedvnecuffhomhgrihhnpehfrhgvvggs shgurdhorhhgnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrh homhepuggthhdomhgvshhmthhprghuthhhphgvrhhsohhnrghlihhthidqieejkedukedu hedvqdduvddufeduudejjedquggthheppehfrhgvvggsshgurdhorhhgsehfrghsthhmrg hilhdrfhhm X-ME-Proxy: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 501) id 14D1CFA0063; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 07:51:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-530-gd0c265785f-fm-20210616.002-gd0c26578 List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <296e87f3-95be-4eaa-8fe9-528baa98e069@www.fastmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:51:13 +0000 From: "Dave Cottlehuber" To: freebsd-arm Subject: Oracle cloud and Altra CPUs Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N Hi, I wrote some notes on how far I got with Oracle & arm64 Altra systems. Oracle is offering free** arm64 VMs, up to 4 cores & 24GiB of RAM, so this is a very attractive platform for people who are currently fiddling= with RasbPi sized build systems. We already know from elsewhere(tm) that the Altra cpu boots FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE happily, so this is largely about muddling around in OCI. https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-07-02-oci-bringup.html hopefully there's enough info in here for others to get further along. My 2 main issues: - not entirely clear what hardware Oracle's KVM cloud is giving us - installer fails at loader with infamous `error 19` presumably as I don't have sufficient drivers available to read from the disk image that we just started from Getting either FreeBSD HTTP boot working, or failing that, IPXE chain booting, would be nice also. I have some rough notes up on that: - https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2020-06-02-freebsd-http-booting.= html A+ Dave =E2=80=94 O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of inventio= n!