According to the following article and based on using FreeBSD 14.3 on Parallels Desktop 26 on a Apple Silicon (M-series processor) myself over the past few months...FreeBSD requires two specific loader settings to avoid idle issues and excessive CPU usage after install...
The public documentation has been updated to include this known issue and this can now be closed as a result
https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/login/arm/Raspberry%20Pi#Known_RPi_4_Issues
Thank you all!
Actually fixed it :) (fyi cracauer@ )
Per https://kb.parallels.com/en/124743 , ran across this article and changed the video type used in the VM from Type 1 - Default (VirtIO GPU) to Type 0 (Parallels Video Driver).
Ran through entire setup in FreeBSD and FreeBSD 14.2 installed and ran in...
FYI what parallels says about virtio_gpu
Looks like for ARM
Linux on ARM
VirGL will be enabled in all new virtual machines;
If a virtual machine has been created in a Parallels Desktop earlier than Parallels Desktop 17.1.0, installing/updating Parallels Tools will enable the VirGL feature...
Not sure if anyone has tried this but when I try to run the following setup I get stuck on the following message
"VT: Replacing driver 'efifb" with new 'virtio_gpu'".
I understand based on this article this is new with FreeBSD 14+ and this appears to be consistent with my tests as anything...
After working with my raspberry pi 4 with 8GB of ram and wondering why it wouldn't boot FreeBSD 14.2:
Crash:
mmcsd0: Error indicated: 1 Timeout
Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs failed with error 19
After running across this thread...
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