After adding arm64 to the netbsd architectures, I can rebuild it with 'nimble 
build' and 'nimble install'; it still insists that is on amd64, though...

As far as OCI is concerned, Oracle were somewhat late to the cloud stuff 
compared to Google, Amazon and Microsoft; I can't compare them, but can see 
that their offering now is quite on the spot - one can have a decent instances 
for development, testing and proof of concept for some system, but certainly 
would not be enough for production, which is fair enough. You can see the 
details here -

<https://www.oracle.com/uk/cloud/free/>

The free tier is not eligible for custom images, but in this case overwriting 
the boot volume works - the NetBSD live-image contains the necessary EFI 
partition and boot file, the GENERIC64 kernel apparently recognises all the 
devices.

I haven't yet tried NetBSD in embedded environments, nor have played with rump 
kernel so far; I mostly follow closely -current and also pkgsrc development. 
BTW NetBSD can have kernel modules written in a high-level language - lua in 
this case. 

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