> On 20 Dec 2020, at 18:33, Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> 
> Things mostly work.  The remaining issues are:
> 
> * The EC2 API "shutdown" / "reboot" message is sent via a pl061 GPIO device
> and we're dropping it on the floor; consequently "reboot" does nothing at
> all, while "shutdown" does nothing until EC2 times out and does a hard
> poweroff (without filesystems being unmounted etc).
> 
> * Device hotplug doesn't work (ACPI issues?) so you need to manually rescan
> after attaching new disks.
> 
> * FreeBSD doesn't boot on "bare metal" Graviton instances, due to missing
> some drivers.  (NetBSD works though -- anyone want to port their code?)
> 
> Oh, and a generic ARM issue: It's not a Tier 1 platform yet, so freebsd-update
> doesn't work and packages aren't always as up-to-date as on x86.  But I think
> those are being worked on...
> -- 
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

Many thanks, Colin, this is super-helpful. Do you have, by any chance, an 
AMI-maker for 12.2 that works with t4g?

Rafal Lukawiecki 
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