From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 11:36:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC65716A41B for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx2.netclusive.de (mx2.netclusive.de [89.110.132.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C1113C4AC for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (sub87-230-112-188.he-dsl.de [87.230.112.188]) (Authenticated sender: ncf1534p2) by mx2.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532962603F7 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:35:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id DE8991521D; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:21:52 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.devel.sparc Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:21:52 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <200711011822.25884.linimon@lonesome.com> <472B39A8.3070708@alaska.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1194175312 41134 192.168.100.5 (4 Nov 2007 11:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:21:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-p8 (sparc64)) Subject: Re: Doesn't anything work around here? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:36:12 -0000 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