Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:41:06 +0200 From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@macmic.franken.de> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 ARM64 "bare metal" instances Message-ID: <0249F9E9-E25F-40D7-96AD-EA8947DD2A91@macmic.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <0100016dd6416a96-9fd7b02a-7ad0-4713-aca2-9df99123f6fe-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <0100016dd57b89f3-034edaf3-4ae3-46f6-96ad-a3f0cf202c05-000000@email.amazonses.com> <B39F25E7-39F0-4979-93F7-4513404E9DA7@macmic.franken.de> <0100016dd6416a96-9fd7b02a-7ad0-4713-aca2-9df99123f6fe-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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> On 16. Oct 2019, at 22:27, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> = wrote: >=20 > On 2019-10-16 11:25, Michael Tuexen wrote: >>> On 16. Oct 2019, at 18:51, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> = wrote: >>> FreeBSD does not currently boot on Amazon's recently released "bare = metal" >>> ARM64 instances. It might be useful to get these working, since = they're >>> reasonably powered hardware (16 cores, 32 GB RAM) and should be able = to run >>> bhyve (that's the "bare metal" part). >> Not sure we have bhyve support for arm64 in tree right now... >=20 > Maybe not, but I'm pretty sure someone was working on it? Yes, that is correct. Not sure about the timeframe of getting it into = head. >=20 >>> Right now the boot is failing because FreeBSD is not finding the = disk (or >>> the network adapter, for that matter): >> Isn't your device similar to >> https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=3Dview&id=3D4813 >=20 > Very similar, yes. That link concerns the same physical hardware, but = running > inside Amazon's KVM-like hypervisor. When running on the "bare metal" = version > of the EC2 instance we need to set up PCI controllers etc. ourselves = since we > don't have a hypervisor doing it for us. Ahh, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Best regards Michael >=20 > --=20 > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly = paranoid > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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