diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc --- a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/cloud-init.adoc @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ To remedy the situation, this project aims to bring FreeBSD cloud-init support on par with Linux support. The broader plan is to lift support across all BSDs. -This quarter has been going very, very slowly, for personal reasons — but also for lack of access to right resources. +This quarter has been going very, very slowly, for personal reasons — but also for lack of access to the right resources. I have been trying to link:https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/2003[port the Infiniband functions]. This has proven difficult, because it falsified my thesis that man:ifconfig[8] is all that is needed to figure out network interfaces on FreeBSD. A cloud-init colleague who works for Azure managed to give me access to an link:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/topics/high-performance-computing[HPC VM on Azure]. -Unfortunately, it was only for a limited time, and that was not enough to figure out how to get Infiniband up and running on FreeBSD — a task handled by package:sysutils/azure-agent[] by Linux, but Azure Agent's FreeBSD is rather lacking. +Unfortunately, it was only for a limited time, and that was not enough to figure out how to get Infiniband up and running on FreeBSD — a task handled by link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/[Azure Agent] on Linux, but FreeBSD's package:sysutils/azure-agent[] is rather lacking. People interested in helping with this project could provide man:ifconfig[8], man:ibstat[8], man:ibv_devinfo[1], etc… link:https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-infiniband/2023-February/000005.html[pastes from their Infiniband systems]. I would also be very happy about getting access to hardware with Infiniband NICs, or hearing from people who have successfully used FreeBSD on Azure HPC with Infiniband.