On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Chris Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Tim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It was my understanding that pfSense was largely x86 dependent with even >> x86_64 being unavailable for now. By the message included below by Ermal, >> does this mean that alternate architectures can run pfSense if compiled for >> that platform? I ask specifically in reference to sparc64. Maybe Ermal can >> comment on the possibility of such a possibility? Understandably, it may be >> completely impossible due to the endian-ness differences between the arch >> types... but I feel I must ask anyways. :-) >> > > I very, very seriously doubt if any alternate architectures would work > without significant efforts. If Ermal's willing to find out for sure, > more power to him. To date there hasn't been a compelling reason to > justify the effort, plus a lack of FreeBSD support. The only tier 1 > (read: fully supported) FreeBSD architectures are x86 and AMD64. > Basically it is possible that it might work, no guarantees of it and Chris is right in telling that it probably want work. But trying it does not hurt and building it for sparc64 is another arch to test.
People that have the clue on how to build pfSense might give some feedback on what architectures they tried. -- Ermal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
