> Unfortunately, sparc is hard to test without access to the hardware.
> The only sparc emulator appeared to be QEMU, whose qemu-system-sparc
> is 32-bit only (sun4m), whereas Solaris 10 and Mono seem to expect
> sparcv9. I have a local branch where I once tried to make it work on a
> sparcv8 QEMU VM running Debian Etch, but the emulated compilation took
> much too long to get far.

The above is actually a really good reason why we do not spend more cycles on Solaris/SPARC.

The machines are overpriced, and underperforming. It is like buying an iPhone, just not as useful.