Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:17:40 +0000 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Oracle cloud and Altra CPUs Message-ID: <0C73EDA5-DE43-4A1B-A717-6871F2BF57AA@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <296e87f3-95be-4eaa-8fe9-528baa98e069@www.fastmail.com> References: <296e87f3-95be-4eaa-8fe9-528baa98e069@www.fastmail.com>
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On July 2, 2021 11:51:13 AM UTC, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@freebsd=2Eorg> wrot= e: >Hi, > >I wrote some notes on how far I got with Oracle & arm64 Altra systems=2E > >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=2E > >We already know from elsewhere(tm) that the Altra cpu boots FreeBSD >13=2E0-RELEASE happily, so this is largely about muddling around in OCI= =2E > >https://people=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/~dch/posts/2021-07-02-oci-bringup=2Ehtml > >hopefully there's enough info in here for others to get further along=2E The issue is virtio_pci1: <VirtIO PCI (modern) SCSI adapter> failing to attach=2E The virtio modern driver is pretty new, it probably needs some fix to work= on arm64=2E=2E Interesting how the VM offers a fallback virtio-legacy device for the netw= orking but not the storage=2E I might investigate if I find the time=2E
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