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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:
>=20
> Things mostly work.  The remaining issues are:
>=20
> * The EC2 API "shutdown" / "reboot" message is sent via a pl061 GPIO devic=
e
> 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).
>=20
> * Device hotplug doesn't work (ACPI issues?) so you need to manually resca=
n
> after attaching new disks.
>=20
> * FreeBSD doesn't boot on "bare metal" Graviton instances, due to missing
> some drivers.  (NetBSD works though -- anyone want to port their code?)
>=20
> Oh, and a generic ARM issue: It's not a Tier 1 platform yet, so freebsd-up=
date
> doesn't work and packages aren't always as up-to-date as on x86.  But I th=
ink
> those are being worked on...
> --=20
> 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 AM=
I-maker for 12.2 that works with t4g?

Rafal Lukawiecki=20=



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