"Have a look at all free operating system projects: they really only support amd64, armv7 and aarch64. Gee! Sometimes they pretend to support a few other experimental platforms. Or other platforms which have not been tested in years and are only cross-built because they are not self-hosting anymore."
I'm pretty sure the NetBSD[1] and OpenBSD would dispute that statement. OpenBSD even compiles its ports directly (not cross compiled). Both projects benefit from these architectures by finding bugs.
Also, although not a popular company, Oracle just introduced a new SPARC and given Oracle's behavior, they wouldn't do it unless it had a profit and a future.
1) look at one of their exhibits, these folks believe in running on anything including toasters
I'm pretty sure the NetBSD[1] and OpenBSD would dispute that statement. OpenBSD even compiles its ports directly (not cross compiled). Both projects benefit from these architectures by finding bugs.
Also, although not a popular company, Oracle just introduced a new SPARC and given Oracle's behavior, they wouldn't do it unless it had a profit and a future.
1) look at one of their exhibits, these folks believe in running on anything including toasters