I am a user of UltraSparc, but practically only for server-side applications and verifying code to ensure it is written in the most portable (endianness neutral) manner. The Sparc Niagara and Niagara 2 are of particular interest as they are one of the few robust multi-core GPL sourced processors. (You can synthesize your own Ultrasparc on an FPGA or ASIC).
Please note that Debian Sparc will default to a 32-bit userland even on a 64-bit kernel, so there is a mix of both 64-bit and 32-bit Sparc platforms in the wild. Unfortunately, there are no longer any desktop form-factor Sparc machines made commercially, so the actual users of a Sparc browser is expected to be minimal. With the advent of low-cost ARM based computers such as the Raspberry PI 2 and Odroid, I would anticipate more interest by users in that space, who use them commonly as desktop replacements. Perhaps it would be useful to track the number of non-Android ARM users. - Kearwood "Kip" Gilbert On 2015-02-24 9:52 PM, ishikawa wrote: > On 2015年02月24日 20:28, Kyle Huey wrote: >> I'm also not sure why you care about arcane architectures like >> Itanium, Alpha, and SPARC, since there are approximately zero users of >> those. >> >> - Kyle > I think there are users of ultrasparc out there. > But as long as SPARC is returned as the architecture, > we can safely assume that 99.99% (or 99.9999%) of it is 64-bit. > SunOS on ultrasparc is 64-bit for at least last dozen years if I recall > correctly. > (32-bit sparc CPU is very old.) > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
