Re: Freebsd on M1 Macs

On 11/26/23 17:52, Kyle Evans wrote:
> On 11/26/23 16:04, Jason Bacon wrote:
>> On 11/26/23 13:22, Joe B wrote:
>>>
>>> I know this is a longshot but I'm going to ask I know MacOS is a BSD 
>>> but we all know it's very sugarcoated and doesn't look like a BSD.
>>>
>>> Question will real freeBSD ever come to the m1 Mac's. I got a 16 inch 
>>> mbp with good specs just taking up space right now
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> ~ Joe B
>>
>> I assume you've seen https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon.  Not sure 
>> how up-to-date it is.  The wikis tend to lag behind reality in my 
>> experience.
>>
> 
> Yeah, this is a bit out of date.  SMP and watchdog bits are good, along 
> with some subset of the USB ports (IOMMU is a WIP).  With the branch I'm 
> working on right now, we can go full multi-user on a USB root.  Work
> stalled for a bit because there was a general disagreement with how we 
> integrated parts of the interrupt control into the interrupt framework, 
> but I've been given a vision recently of a clear path forward, so 
> hopefully we can move forward with that and unblock upstreaming some of 
> the other bits.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kyle Evans
> 

That's exciting news, thanks Kyle!  I'm personally looking forward to 
using Mac Minis / Studios as HPC cluster nodes.  They will be a 
game-changer for small scale HPC, allowing for the first time some 
serious computing power in a typical office rather than requiring a data 
center.

I'll be getting back to work on the LPJS scheduler soon, so we have an 
alternative to SLURM, which has become too complex and Linux-centric.

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