They DO however support various other open-source projects. IMNSHO Sun is a nice company (I actually worked for them), but they don’t give a shit about Linux or any other open-source operating system on SPARC. The same goes for IBM (power processors) and partly for SGI (mips, itanium). HP supports the open-source community and published almots all docu and inner details of these processor families.They actually even employ PA-RISC/Itanium people to develop for the Linux kernel, gcc and various other non-Linux related stuff. Look at the Alpha, PA-RISC and Itanium processors. The ix86 is very popular, and due to this fact there is lots of knowledge about all variations implementation of this processor architecture.īut popularity is not really neccessary. for a specific processor than anything else. IMHO it is much more important to have a good ducos, errata etc. Sun’s UltraSPARC IIIi are not well supported under OpenBSD (since they still don’t have the NDA documents). Ross HyperSPARC are not very well supported under Linux/*BSD. The implementation is what matters, and if you don’t have a very well documented processor implementation, an generic “open standard” doesn’t help you much. Sun’s SPARC impementation, the SPARC64 implementation from Fujitsu, aswell as the old Ross HyperSPARC are propriataty. Competition, and therefore cheaper prices perhaps. Well, SPARC is an open-standard, so what does it give you?Īctually not much.
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