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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>
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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
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