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	Famous Runescape player Sparc Mac was inspired by the SPARC architecture for his Runescape username. This would be worth adding into the main article <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 17:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->		Famous Runescape player Sparc Mac was inspired by the SPARC architecture for his Runescape username. This would be worth adding into the main article <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 17:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

	== DFP ==

	There is a claim that some Fujitsu SPARC processors have hardware implementations of decimal floating point. I don't see a reference for this, though, so I looked here. Does anyone here know about that? ] (]) 20:52, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

	:I presume you have seen ] ("Fujitsu also has Sparc processors with DFP in hardware").

	:I have never seen any definitive reference to DFP op-codes for any Fujitsu SPARC processor, but given Fujitsu ported their BS2000/OSD mainframe operating system (inherited from Siemens) to SPARC in the early 2000s, it would not be totally surprising to find they had either customised cores, or DFP co-processors (using the traditional SPARC co-processor interface) lurking in their SX series mainframes somewhere - Fujitsu SX mainframes might be a good place to start looking.

	:Secondly, the SPARC64V was loosely based on the 1999 Fujitsu GS8900 (non-SPARC) mainframe processor, so just might therefore have some poorly-documented DFP capabilities hidden away somewhere, perhaps only available when loaded with "mainframe" microcode.

	:The (Fujitsu) ], microSPARC-II and ] did not have DFP in hardware (except possibly using an external co-processor).

	:Good luck with your search, remember to post any interesting results back here. ] (]) 11:08, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

	== Soft-Cores versus Concrete Implementations ==


	Not too happy that "LEON4" is in the main table, with most of the fields blanked out (because it is a *configurable* VHDL "soft-core" rather than an actual microprocessor). Replacing it with a concrete implementation, eg: Cobham Gaisler GR740, where the data-fields can be filled-in, sounds like a better way to go.

	Perhaps this page should have a separate summary paragraph listing the known SPARC soft-cores: OpenSPARC T1/T2; ERC32; the LEON series (with a link to the LEON Misplaced Pages article for the gory details); and so on. ] (]) 12:34, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

	Thoughts?

	: Alternative suggestion: could use eg: LEON4 or LEON3 as the generic-/code-name ("micro-architectural name"), and eg: GR740 or GR712RC as the specific model name ("concrete implementation name"). ] (]) 12:34, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

	:: I have adopted the alternative suggestion, and updated the main article page accordingy. ] (]) 14:32, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

	== Infrant IT3103 and IT3107 ==		== Infrant IT3103 and IT3107 ==

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Sparc Mac's OSRS name

Famous Runescape player Sparc Mac was inspired by the SPARC architecture for his Runescape username. This would be worth adding into the main article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.86.177.225 (talk) 17:15, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Infrant IT3103 and IT3107

As concrete (and heavily productized!) examples of embedded SPARC, it would be useful if we could dig up more information on the Infrant Technologies' IT3103 and IT3107 LEON2-based SPARC processors used in the Infrant (later NetGear) ReadyNAS NV1 boxes starting from 2005; eg configured on-chip cache sizes, process-node/die-size, power (W), no. I/O pins. We can surmise some details from the non-configurable parts of LEON2 (ie: threads/cores, arch. version) and some from the press releases and historical product brochures (ie: year 2005). Shelldozer (talk) 14:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Open and Royalty free

The Template:Infobox CPU architecture currently says the instruction set is "open" and "royalty free".

royalty free means, that – in contrast to the x86 or the ARM instruction set – anybody is free to implement an own microarchitecture base on it. Am I correct?
what does "open" mean? User:ScotXW 10:14, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Oracle SPARC and Solaris Public Roadmap pdf not found

Oracle SPARC and Solaris Public Roadmap pdf link should be updated or removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vitor.Alcantara.de.Almeida (talk • contribs) 14:12, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

There doesn't appear to be any updated version, so I removed it.--NapoliRoma (talk) 07:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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