@ptribble

Even with @wild1145 's generous new posting limits, there wasn't enough space to say thank you. So: thank you for letting me know about that.

Even though it completely undoes a decision that I thought I had just firmly made. (-:

Anyway, back to seeing whether #Debian installs natively to ZFS yet.

#Illumos #OmniOS #RaspberryPi

@ptribble

And yet the downloads page explicitly states "All #OmniOS releases are for the x86-64 architecture only.".

* https://omnios.org/download.html

They could do with letting the world know that this experiment exists, instead of hiding it in a tree of its own on a downloads site that isn't linked-to.

Then people like me casting about for some #RaspberryPi diversity could find it. (-:

As it is, the operating system's own site doesn't mention it, and the search engines turn up dead end stuff like this as top results:

* https://solarisdesktop.blogspot.com/2013/02/illumos-on-raspberrypi.html

I don't expect Wikipedia to be accurate when it comes to this stuff, but the operating system's own WWW site could at least mention that there's a port even if it adds a lot of caveats about unsupported, best-effort, tier 2, and so forth.

That looks like an EFI bootloader. I wonder whether I could use it from #TianoCore.

…

Gah!

I'm going to have to resist. I'm *supposed* to be resurrecting my Debian amd64 build machine.

#Illumos

@matthew @stratacast @subnetspider

#OpenIndiana is desktop focussed.

#OmniOS is single-server-or-VM-guest focussed.

#SmartOS is hypervisor-focussed.

All are #illumos distributions. I know SmartOS has paid-support options (though usually we support #Triton Data Center deployments).

Also #illumos distros include dedicated appliance/device user like @oxidecomputer 's Helios or RackTop's BrickStore.

That help?

@sjorge

Hmm, i have tried on a few machines here now at home.
All UEFI,
Not all where capable to pass-though a device
in some cases i got a init_node: unbind rebind error

But i have a Lenovo with a 8th gen intel that i managed to pass-though the onboard USB

But my ryzen 1600 was a no 😞
This was with #omnios

Thanks again

No joy yet, the documentation is not understandable for me, how to setup a ppt device in a zone

set device
match=/dev/ppt2

and then on?
https://illumos.org/man/8/bhyve
https://man.omnios.org/7/bhyve#ppt

A blogger using #omnios passing bhyve zone commands
in a attr
https://www.cyber-tec.org/2019/05/29/using-bhyve-pci-passthrough-on-omnios/

#tribblix did not like that at all 😂

https://blackdot.be/2023/11/illumos-bhyve-intel-arc/

Best one yet, managed to get USB dev as a ppt dev.

#SmartOS and i did not agree with ppt_aliases or ppt_matches.
#OmniOs and pcieadm utility made it understandable on my level
prtconf -dD is ALOT 😂
But after i have seen output of pcieadm it makes more sense.

So tomorrow i will try my favorite #tribblix to see if we can get passthrough going