is there anyone run illumos on ARMv8/Aarch64 ?

tozhu - yes, there is an experimental aarch64 OmniOS distribution, and a few people are running that on Raspberry Pi 4s, and under qemu

andyf: Thanks for the information, is there installation os available? or had the source ?

Boot log: gist.github.com/citrus-it/4c672cee14dfdf91a76100fa36f4ba84

Images can be downloaded from downloads.omnios.org/media/braich

This is based on three repos: github.com/richlowe/illumos-gate; github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build; github.com/omniosorg/omnios-extra

so, is the zfs available right now

there any docs guide it from source ?

andyf, Thank you very much

ZFS is working, yes, but this is still all a work in progress with lots to do.

If you want to build it from source, you should look at github.com/richlowe/arm64-gate

There is also a really easy way to get an image running under qemu on OmniOS bloody, using `zadm` - I hope to write some kind of blog post on that next week.

cool, I’m waiting for you blog post, Thank you Andyf

andyf: only rpi4 atm? i got a spare rpi3 laying around but no 4s

There is only a platform-specific module for rpi4 at present - github.com/richlowe/illumos-gate/tr…usr/src/psm/stand/boot/aarch64/rpi4

I don't know off the top of my head how hard it would be to make an rpi3 one of those

not even sure how different trhy are aside from the cpu cores

ok A72 vs A52 Cortex core, DDR4 vs DDR 2 memory, ... lots of changes

i though it was way less difference

When others wake up they might have a better idea of how much work it would be, and if there's anything that makes it impractical.

there's not a vast amount of code in that directory

Hello, Is there a way to check/enable disk write cache in onpenindiana ?  I have a 4TB disk that speeds at 155MB/s on reads and crowls below 8MB/s on write.

i think running 'format -e' (ignore the omnious sounding name of the utility)

somewhere in there after you select the disk i believe is an option to show or set the write cache

normally though zfs will do that as long as it thinks it is using the entire disk

what type of disk is it?

like I think some of the WD SMR disks that try to pretend they're not SMR can have pretty bad write performance

rpi3 is probably a new mmc etc.

but I never looked

is it using the sdcard driver?

well, I'm not going to nominate anyone 'cos that'd be rude.

has anyone tried to run the arm stuff under ESX (apparently there's an ARM version)?

andyf: does the nic work on the rpi4 yet?

Yes

It's pretty nice, even though we're running DEBUG bits (although not all kmem flags are set, although they probably could be on the pi)

[illumos-gate] 15771 loader: remove traces of firewire -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

andyf: yeah, probably should let them default in general now it's actually useful

I got a heap corruption panic just a few minutes ago, so they're doing their job.

Yes, it's defaulting to 0x6 which is everything useful at runtime, but no logging etc.

but now we have an mdb that logging is invaluable, rather than useless.

I guess I know what I am doing this weekend with my rpi4

andyf: and if you want to file github issues for panics and stuff, that's fine

if other people start doing stuff I'm going to have to finally get stuff moved into proper homes though.

papertigers - for quick start there are omnios images you can just dd onto a card. To boot the GPT partitioned one you need to have up-to-date firmware on there (on the pi 4 that's in SPI flash rather than read from the FAT partition on the card)

It's serial console only though, so you need some kind of uart

[illumos-gate] 15775 ps: 'lwpsinfo' may be used uninitialized -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

[illumos-gate] 15738 SMB Sharing Violation with zombie open -- Gordon Ross <gwr⊙rc>

andyf: I grabbed the omnios zst image for the rpi4.

I will have to look up the other bits about booting

and I think I have a uart serial thing I can connect to the gpio headers

andyf: I also think I have instructions for using the emu brand from you saved. May try that first

[illumos-gate] 15783 loader: add stdint.h -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

papertigers - if you have omnios bloody, it's really easy to boot an image under the emu brand - asciinema.org/a/595580

I suspect the "emu" brand will get backported to r46 at some point too.

when you find a million things wrong, a good thing to do is to tell me about it, or file bugs.

but file bugs in the arm64 illumos gate, not redmine (yet)

[illumos-gate] 15779 libuuid can produce invalid V4 UUIDs -- Robert Mustacchi <rm⊙fo>