On 5/10/2012 4:41 PM, Seth Mos wrote: >> Last I checked[1], FreeBSD (base OS of pfSense) ran on the V100's as well. >> Just another option for you to consider. > > It's a considerable amount of time to build a pfSense image for Sparc, it's > been tried before with MIPS. It just takes inordinate amount of time.
It would be a lot faster on Sparc at least you'd have a decent amount of CPU/RAM/Storage, unlike MIPS which lacks all of the above. MIPS was also a Tier 3 arch, sparc64 is a Tier 2 at least. The fact that it's a Tier 2 arch still holds it back in some regards, there could be breakage in some/all the ports we need, and undoubtedly patches would fail or not happen in needed places. Not to mention the complete lack of hardware (or funding) to pursue such a thing. Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
