git: 73f3e1485c - main - 2023Q2 status report for FreeBSD/EC2
Colin Percival <[email protected]>
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The branch main has been updated by cperciva: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=73f3e1485c9e2cc5e51472d296f53187fc1a12fb commit 73f3e1485c9e2cc5e51472d296f53187fc1a12fb Author: Colin Percival <[email protected]> AuthorDate: 2023-06-25 19:21:02 +0000 Commit: Colin Percival <[email protected]> CommitDate: 2023-06-28 17:15:55 +0000 2023Q2 status report for FreeBSD/EC2 Reviewed by: salvadore, pauamma Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40755 --- .../content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d444d0cfa --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/ec2.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +=== FreeBSD on EC2 + +Links: + +link:https://www.patreon.com/cperciva[FreeBSD/EC2 Patreon] URL: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva[https://www.patreon.com/cperciva] + +Contact: Colin Percival <[email protected]> + +FreeBSD is available on both x86 (Intel and AMD) and ARM64 (Graviton) EC2 instances. +Work continues to ensure that upcoming instance types will be supported, including the recently announced M7a "EPYC" instances, which should be supported in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. + +Weekly FreeBSD snapshots were recently changed from "UEFI" boot mode to "UEFI Preferred" boot mode, allowing them to gain the boot performance improvement offered by UEFI while still supporting "bare metal" and "previous generation" instance types which are not compatible with UEFI. +This change will be present in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. + +The EC2 boot scripts were recently updated to support IMDSv2. +This change will be present in FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. + +If users of FreeBSD 13.2 require any of these updates, the author can provide FreeBSD "13.2-RELEASE plus updates" AMIs. + +This work is supported by Colin's FreeBSD/EC2 Patreon.