On Thu, 25 Dec 2025, Benny Siegert wrote:
Hi! On Thu, 25 Dec 2025, Martin Husemann wrote:
Just try boothing the -11 image? Do they offer a virtual CD image option? https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/images/NetBSD-11.0_BETA-evbarm-aarch64.iso I used that to install on a Netcup virtual arm machine and it just works.
Thanks! I created a machine image from the -current "Generic 64-bit" image on https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ and booted that. It does boot! However, I see two issues:
- It hangs forever waiting for the disk, for some reason. - On these machines, Google does not offer VirtIO networking any more, only something called gVNIC, so there is no supported network.
Apparently, FreeBSD has a driver for this network interface, called "gve".
dmesg follows:
[ 1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
[ 1.0000000] 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,
2013,
[ 1.0000000] 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022,
2023,
[ 1.0000000] 2024, 2025
[ 1.0000000] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
[ 1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[ 1.0000000] The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
[ 1.0000000] NetBSD 11.99.4 (GENERIC64) #0: Wed Dec 24 16:29:39 UTC 2025[ 1.0000000] mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64
[ 1.0000000] total memory = 4070 MB [ 1.0000000] avail memory = 3922 MB [ 1.0000000] entropy: ready [ 1.0000000] armfdt0 (root) [ 1.0000000] armfdt0: using EFI runtime services for RTC [ 1.0000000] simplebus0 at armfdt0: Google Google Compute Engine [ 1.0000000] simplebus1 at simplebus0 [ 1.0000000] acpifdt0 at simplebus0 [ 1.0000000] acpifdt0: SMBIOS rev. 3.4.0 @ 0x13fe70000 [ 1.0000000] ACPI: RSDP 0x000000013C590018 000024 (v02 Google)[ 1.0000000] ACPI: XSDT 0x000000013C59FE98 00007C (v01 Google GOOGFACP 00000001 01000013) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: FACP 0x000000013C597518 000114 (v06 Google GOOGFACP 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: DSDT 0x000000013C59E998 000D0A (v02 Google GOOGDSDT 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: SSDT 0x000000013C59FA98 000316 (v02 GOOGLE Tpm2Tabl 00001000 INTL 20250404) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000013C59FF98 000034 (v04 GOOGLE 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: SRAT 0x000000013C59E898 000092 (v03 Google GOOGSRAT 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: SPCR 0x000000013C59E498 000050 (v02 Google GOOGSPCR 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: APIC 0x000000013C59E798 0000B8 (v05 Google GOOGAPIC 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: GTDT 0x000000013C59E518 000068 (v03 Google GOOGGTDT 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: MCFG 0x000000013C59E618 00003C (v01 Google GOOGMCFG 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: IORT 0x000000013C59E698 000084 (v01 Google GOOGIORT 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: PPTT 0x000000013C59DA18 0000C8 (v03 Google GOOGPPTT 00000001 GOOG 00000001) [ 1.0000000] ACPI: DBG2 0x000000013C59E198 00005D (v00 Google GOOGDBG2 00000001 GOOG 00000001)
[ 1.0000000] ACPI: 2 ACPI AML tables successfully acquired and loaded [ 1.0000000] acpi0 at acpifdt0: Intel ACPICA 20250807 [ 1.0000000] cpu0 at acpi0: unknown CPU (ID = 0x410fd8e0), id 0x0 [ 1.0000000] cpu0: package 0, core 0, smt 0, numa 0 [ 1.0000000] gicvthree0 at acpi0: GICv3 [ 1.0000000] gicvthree0: ITS #0 at 0x8080000[ 1.0000000] gicvthree0: ITS command table @ 0x40020000/0x1000, Cacheable WA WB, Inner shareable [ 1.0000000] gicvthree0: ITS [#0] Devices table @ 0x40030000/0x10000, Cacheable WA WB, Inner shareable, indirect [ 1.0000000] gicvthree0: ITS [#1] Collections table @ 0x40040000/0x10000, Cacheable WA WB, Inner shareable
[ 1.0000000] gtmr0 at acpi0: irq 27 [ 1.0000000] armgtmr0 at gtmr0: Generic Timer (1000 MHz, virtual) [ 1.0000040] C000 (ACPI0007) at acpi0 not configured[ 1.0000040] plcom0 at acpi0 (COM0, ARMH0011-0): mem 0x9000000-0x9000fff irq 98
[ 1.0000040] plcom0: txfifo 32 bytes [ 1.0000040] plcom0: console[ 1.0000040] plcom1 at acpi0 (COM1, ARMH0011-1): mem 0x9001000-0x9001fff irq 99
[ 1.0000040] plcom1: txfifo 32 bytes[ 1.0000040] plcom2 at acpi0 (COM2, ARMH0011-2): mem 0x9002000-0x9002fff irq 100
[ 1.0000040] plcom2: txfifo 32 bytes[ 1.0000040] plcom3 at acpi0 (COM3, ARMH0011-3): mem 0x9003000-0x9003fff irq 101
[ 1.0000040] plcom3: txfifo 32 bytes [ 1.0000040] acpiged0 at acpi0 (GED0, ACPI0013-GED): irq 50 [ 1.0000040] acpibut0 at acpi0 (PWRB, PNP0C0C-0): ACPI Power Button [ 1.0000040] acpibut1 at acpi0 (SLPB, PNP0C0E-0): ACPI Sleep Button [ 1.0000040] PEVT (QEMU0001) at acpi0 not configured [ 1.0000040] qemufwcfg0 at acpi0 (FWCF, QEMU0002): mem 0x9006000-0x9006fff[ 1.0000040] acpipchb0 at acpi0 (PCI0, PNP0A08-PCI0): PCI Express Host Bridge
[ 1.0000040] pci0 at acpipchb0 bus 0[ 1.0000040] vendor 1ae0 product 0042 (ethernet network, revision 0x03) at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
[ 1.0000040] virtio0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 [ 1.0000040] virtio0: entropy device (id 4, rev. 0x00) [ 1.0000040] viornd0 at virtio0: features: 0 [ 1.0000040] virtio0: interrupting at irq 36[ 1.0000040] nvme0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 1ae0 product 001f (rev. 0x01)
[ 1.0000040] nvme0: NVMe 1.3 [ 1.0000040] nvme0: interrupting at irq 37 [ 1.0000040] nvme0: nvme_card-pd, firmware 2, serial nvme_card-pd [ 1.0000040] ld4 at nvme0 nsid 1[ 1.0000040] ld4: 4096 MB, 2080 cyl, 64 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8388608 sectors
[ 61.2481081] waiting for devices: ld4 [ 121.3038981] waiting for devices: ld4 -- Benny