[cfarm-users] [cfarm-announces] New aarch64 hardware in Japan

[Denis Ovsienko]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:46:06 +0000
Peter Gutmann via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:

> If
> someone's adding new hardware could you consider making
> FreeBSD/NetBSD/ anyotherBSD available on some of it?

There is a NetBSD/MIPS64 host running along the two hosts that became
cfarm230 and cfarm231 three years ago.  At the time Baptiste and I
considered adding it to CFarm as well, but NetBSD on Octeon is still
single-processor only and CFarm automation at the time was not equipped
to handle NetBSD, so we dismissed the idea.  Thus I did not install an
SSD there (and if I did, the throughput would likely still be around
8MB/s due to NetBSD USB being slow).  If its present state suits your
use case, I can create an account for you manually.

Alternatively, both FreeBSD and NetBSD and OpenBSD run fine in a VM on
AArch64, at least the most recent stable releases do on my own [rather
small] hardware.  Maybe folks with plenty of idle AArch64 cores and RAM
could allocate some basic resources to start providing BSD VMs and see
how it goes.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko