Interesting on the Pi front. I have a couple spare so I can play with
(just not with me this week).

I'd suggest opening an issue on running on AWS arm64 instances,
separetely to the Pi one, for sure.

Perhaps a second one for the ENA driver as that would be useful for
both arm64 and x86 on AWS.

Rick

On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 13:44 -0700, Waldek Kozaczuk wrote:
> I wonder if we should create a dedicated issue to track it. There is
> an existing one - https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/issues/717
> - which seems very related. BTW per this issue somebody reported being able 
> to (almost) boot OSv on Raspberry Pi! 
> 
> There is also another issue tracking new KVM based EC2 instances
> support - https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/issues/924.
> 
> Finally I also wanted to point out that Firecracker team is actively
> working on ARM support as well - 
> https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/648 and 
> https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/milestone/3. This
> would be another alternative to run OSv on and possibly easier as we
> already support virtio-mmio drivers which x64 firecracker exposes and
> I quite likely the arm version would support it as well. Just
> saying...
> 
> Waldek
> 
> On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 3:43:40 PM UTC-4, rickp wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 20:19 +0100, Rick Payne wrote: 
> > > 
> > > The amazon A1 instances has these devices. I guess we need ENA 
> > > support 
> > > for Amazon's new hypervisors anyway... (SR-IOV). 
> > 
> > Another thing we'd need to do - the A1 instances use a GICv3,
> > whereas 
> > OSv supports GICv2. Whether we can just ignore the extra features
> > I'm 
> > not sure - but we'd have to do some work, as with the Amazon DTB, I
> > get 
> > this: 
> > 
> > arch-setup: failed to get GICv2 information from dtb. 
> > 
> > So GICv3 work, ENA driver (and NVMe if we don't have it) and we may
> > be 
> > on our way... 
> > 
> > Rick 
> > 
> > 
> 
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