Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:11:53 +0000 From: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> Cc: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AWS Graviton (t4g) Message-ID: <C4D2ACA9-BFFE-49C1-B8AA-72E32C9DB6C9@rafal.net> In-Reply-To: <01000176816d1718-26a08928-e08c-466a-8550-552bc746d81f-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <01000176816d1718-26a08928-e08c-466a-8550-552bc746d81f-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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> On 20 Dec 2020, at 18:33, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote: > > 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 Many thanks, Colin, this is super-helpful. Do you have, by any chance, an AMI-maker for 12.2 that works with t4g? Rafal Lukawiecki
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