Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:28:23 +0100 From: Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <56433467.1040000@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <20151111084432.GC67251@server.rulingia.com> References: <563A5893.1030607@freebsd.org> <2AAC0EF3-528B-476F-BA9C-CDC3004465D0@bsdimp.com> <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de> <563F8385.3090603@freebsd.org> <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> <CANCZdfqO-SdjnonGzRr2H0pDon5oALsDGsmG3KOxPGRVdTbHPQ@mail.gmail.com> <39947478-4710-47D8-BAB1-FC93979570B6@mail.turbofuzz.com> <20151111084432.GC67251@server.rulingia.com>
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On 11/11/15 09:44, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2015-Nov-10 22:55:38 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> wrote: >> Again, what’s the long-term goal of supporting this architecture? > > The things that sparc64 give us that x86 doesn't are big-endian and > strict alignment. In theory, MIPS, PPC and ARM can give us both of > those but I'm non sure whether we actually have any big-endian > variants of them. > These days the cheapest new MIPS64 system you can get is a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite with dual-core 500MHz Cavium Octeon 1+. I don't know if they support little-endian but the FreeBSD port to them uses big-endian. Since the u-boot bootloader isn't locked down you can just modify the startup script and boot from either TFTP or local USB storage.help
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