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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by Annatar on Monday September 04, 2017 @10:41AM (#15168511)
But it is true. For a while, AMD based Acer Ferrari laptops were the primary development hardware for Solaris, SPARC or otherwise. It showed up on i86pc first, then it would be built on sparc during the night.

SmartOS for example only supports i86pc; there is no sparc port.

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