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[Rafal Lukawiecki]

> On 20 Jan 2021, at 13:12, Rafal Lukawiecki via freebsd-cloud <freebsd-cloud at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Colin, I am only slowly realising the impact of the points you have made. :)
> 
>>> On 20 Dec 2020, at 18:33, Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> * 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).
> 
> I have noticed a bunch of artefacts left over from unclean shutdowns, which I assume are caused by the above not calling the shutdown rc.d scripts. Do you know if this is likely to get implemented any time soon, or are you aware of a simple workaround?

Ah, I just noticed a commit from Sept 2020 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/1fc1a22868264f3a59074fe90cb2ac39309d63d5 <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/1fc1a22868264f3a59074fe90cb2ac39309d63d5> that mentions pl061 use on EC2. I suppose that is likely to end up in 13.0, am I right? Perhaps there is more work that needs to happen before this leads to a shutdown and in turn rc.d running scripts.

Rafal
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Rafal Lukawiecki
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