1. Running SBSA Reference Platform

    Recently people asked me how to run SBSA Reference Platform for their own testing and development. Which shows that I should write some documentation.

    But first let me blog about it…

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  2. Good keyboard is a must

    I use Microsoft Ergonomic Desktop 4000 keyboard for over 10 years now. And Microsoft Natural Keyboard before.

    All because wrists and RSI

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  3. 2023 summary

    In past years I was writing some kind of summary of previous year. In form of kind of timeline, with info about each month etc. Time to write something about previous year but in other form.

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  4. Automating some of my personal projects

    I have several personal projects which generate HTML table with some interesting data in it:

    • AArch64 SoC features table
    • AArch64 cpu cores information
    • Linux kernel system calls for all architectures
    • Arm BSA/SBSA checklist

    Whenever I had to update them I did that by hand. Which had to end one day…

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  5. Testing *BSD on SBSA Reference Platform

    SystemReady specification mentions that system to be certified needs to be able to boot several operating systems:

    In addition, OS installation and boot logs are required:

    • Windows PE boot log, from a GPT partitioned disk, is required.
    • VMware ESXi-Arm installation and boot logs are recommended.
    • Installation and boot logs from two of the Linux distros or BSDs are required.

    All logs must be submitted using the ES/SR template.

    In choosing the Linux distros or BSDs, maximize the coverage by diversifying the heritage. For example, the following shows the grouping of the heritage:

    • RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux/Oracle Linux/Anolis OS
    • SLES/openSUSE
    • Ubuntu/Debian
    • CBL-Mariner
    • NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD

    So during last week I went through *BSD ones.

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  6. SBSA Reference Platform update

    There were several changes done since my previous post on the topic. So after some discussions I decided to write a post about it.

    There are improvements, fixes and even issues with BSA specification.

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