Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:21:52 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Doesn't anything work around here? Message-ID: <fgka0g$185e$4@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <ffg2gk$1n1r$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <200711011822.25884.linimon@lonesome.com> <472B39A8.3070708@alaska.net>
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:52:24 -0800 Royce Williams wrote: > I've started a couple of threads in the past about offering to chip in > for hardware to support builds, and especially sparc64 freebsd-update. > To move forward on that, what is the 'best bang for the buck' hardware > that the project could use? The fastest CPU that are currently supported by FreeBSD are 650MHz IIi. You can find that in a Blade 150. There are no workstations with more than one CPU of this type around (that I know of). The U80 has up to four 450MHz CPUs. So this is (probably) the fastest sparc64-workstation currently supported by FreeBSD. Since the ports cannot be compiled with more than one job at a time (make -j 2 breaks most of the builds), I'm not sure if more than one CPU would be of much use - for building the ports. However, if only one job is run, the workstation would still be usable for other things while compiling. Regards, Chris
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