Ooh, I have a bunch of E450s I'd love to give away! :-) (Shipping would still be expensive, though.) -Adam
Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote: >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 > _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
