> > If one is to consider only hardware that is still being manufactured
> > (ie: bought new), what are our options now?
>
> The only big-endian systems you can buy new nowadays, would be
> Octeon-based systems. Some of them can run OpenBSD.
Oh good god. Just go to ebay and buy HP J6700/6750 or
> The question is two-fold: In one way I'm asking about things that
> OpenBSD will currently run on, and in the other just asking about
> what's available for hardware regardless of whether OpenBSD will
> currently run on it.
>
In general, MIPS like Cavium Octeon is BE, supported and currently
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> If one is to consider only hardware that is still being manufactured
> (ie: bought new), what are our options now?
The only big-endian systems you can buy new nowadays, would be
Octeon-based systems. Some of them can run OpenBSD.
The recent news elsewhere about Debian no longer actively testing
on sparc plaforms got me to thinking. It's been very handy over
the years to be able to test programs on both big-endian and little-endian
machines (for the same reason that it's good to test across different
compilers and operatin
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