Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:39:59 +0300 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Martin Karrer <martin@bmalum.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM Graviton AWS Processor (AMI Image) Message-ID: <1548182399.2864.0@smtp.migadu.com> In-Reply-To: <010201686fe5047f-ed14af85-2b25-4480-a62a-a893f062eedd-000000@eu-west-1.amazo nses.com> References: <79CC79B9-81AF-4563-BABE-429E6A57F476@bmalum.com> <010201686fe5047f-ed14af85-2b25-4480-a62a-a893f062eedd-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 1:11 PM, Martin Karrer <martin@bmalum.com> wrote: > Hello, > This is my first message on the mailing list, please forgive me for > making mistakes 😉 > > My question is if there are any plans yet to support the Graviton ARM > instances of AWS? > > We have a heavy load on FreeBSD and would also use the ARM instances. > Are there any other interested parties? > > I would be happy to donate my time and help. I have tried this. It should work very well in theory, e.g. the network card driver (if_ena) compiles with no changes for aarch64, and in fact NetBSD has ported this driver and is up and running on these instances: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=4623 But my result with FreeBSD was: nothing on the console after loader.efi hands control to the kernel. My build patches: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18372 & https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18371 Unfortunately, AWS still has a read-only serial console (WTF?!), so debugging systems there is a very frustrating experience of "stop instance, detach disk, attach it to a running instance, do changes, reattach back, start". And it feels like each of these steps runs sleep(10000) when handling requests. I probably didn't see anything because the serial port wasn't configured. Seems like AWS in their infinite wisdom have decided to only provide their fancy PCIe based serial port. I have tried adding its PCI ID to various places, configuring various boot variables with the memory address that Linux/ACPI shows for that device, etc. but that didn't help.home | help
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