Problem building aarch64 AMI on 11/amd64

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 04:41:49AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 2019-08-28 21:14, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > I'm attempting to build a FreeBSD 11.3/aarch64 AMI for EC2 based on the
> > instructions in
> > 
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-cloud/2015-April/000015.html
> > 
> > on my FreeBSD 11.3/amd64 box.
> 
> I didn't MFC all of the bits needed for building ARM64 EC2 images to
> stable/11, because some ARMy people told me that it was very unlikely
> that the arm64 bits in FreeBSD 11 would boot.
> 
> It's possible that this has changed, but given the level of doubt I
> heard from them I suspect you're better off looking for someone who can
> give you access to real hardware.

Thanks Colin!  I will stop banging my head against the wall then :)

There is a ref11 box listed on the wiki, but I can't seem to connect, so
I'll ping cluster admin and see if I can find out what is up with it.

-- Greg