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 operating systems). However, a lot of the big-endian hardware out there is getting a bit long in the tooth.
If one is to consider only hardware that is still being manufactured (ie: bought new), what are our options now? Sparc is still around, of course, although I had serious doubts about how long it would be around when Oracle bought Sun. There's IBM's Power architecture, but it looks like more recent versions of that will (optionally) run little-endian natively, which makes me wonder about long-term directions there. Am I missing anything? 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. Devin
