EC2 ARM64 "bare metal" instances

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 16. Oct 2019, at 22:27, Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-10-16 11:25, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>>> On 16. Oct 2019, at 18:51, Colin Percival <cperciva at 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...
> 
> 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.
> 
>>> 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=view&id=4813
> 
> 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
> 
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