From nobody Fri Jul 2 14:17:40 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 7494E11F7238 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Received: from out2.migadu.com (out2.migadu.com [188.165.223.204]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GGccN23PJz4fhV; Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:17:40 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=unrelenting.technology; s=key1; t=1625235463; 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=iZEUl73aS1Ud16erOZUXXZUQFJbD8zi0PsCZcVPpeX4=; b=wEvxD1MGFVl6NDskS3AoStT46Y3z8NetoKgVgXoUqazeMcqiX7jQhbJ8iZ+BfN6Rdz0uEr vEtp7AmWS52qCfEwZdl89XIdzsRigfb3G2j6g0gu7XLWYwJNaECu8Livhgdm+0snxRdCjW 1WXVNCgbqhsqKZWs7tAKyfFD1NGfkhjCwoHj5nF4jaa2UmXxrMAsmFhO5n85v9Y+7Krcuq uN2kg7r1JgxgjBgmTNCZovJfL+5L2YHODr3aMlcJSC4BPh7ZUcFMiO0AHrwavJL59lin0Q ff6nbWhfMnVJKwsTIgDX8SGA27sTn2nUaJ+JyL24WJaAOizUrBnhCPzgED0QsQ== X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Greg V To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Dave Cottlehuber Subject: Re: Oracle cloud and Altra CPUs In-Reply-To: <296e87f3-95be-4eaa-8fe9-528baa98e069@www.fastmail.com> References: <296e87f3-95be-4eaa-8fe9-528baa98e069@www.fastmail.com> Message-ID: <0C73EDA5-DE43-4A1B-A717-6871F2BF57AA@unrelenting.technology> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: greg@unrelenting.technology X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GGccN23PJz4fhV X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On July 2, 2021 11:51:13 AM UTC, Dave Cottlehuber 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: 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