Re: Oracle cloud and Altra CPUs
Greg V <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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On July 2, 2021 11:51:13 AM UTC, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >I wrote some notes on how far I got with Oracle & arm64 Altra systems. > >Oracle is offering free** arm64 VMs, up to 4 cores & 24GiB of RAM, so >this is a very attractive platform for people who are currently fiddling >with RasbPi sized build systems. > >We already know from elsewhere(tm) that the Altra cpu boots FreeBSD >13.0-RELEASE happily, so this is largely about muddling around in OCI. > >https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2021-07-02-oci-bringup.html > >hopefully there's enough info in here for others to get further along. The issue is virtio_pci1: <VirtIO PCI (modern) SCSI adapter> failing to attach. The virtio modern driver is pretty new, it probably needs some fix to work on arm64.. Interesting how the VM offers a fallback virtio-legacy device for the networking but not the storage. I might investigate if I find the time.