Project:SPARC

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SPARC Development
Description Gentoo/SPARC is a Gentoo project designed to bring the Gentoo GNU/Linux operating system to the SPARC and UltraSPARC platforms. Gentoo/SPARC aims to provide a usable server and desktop environment for your various SPARC related endeavors.
Project email sparc@gentoo.org
IRC channel #gentoo-sparc (webchat)
Bugs Related bugs
Lead(s) none
No lead election date set
Member(s)
Subproject(s)
(and inherited member(s))
(none)
Parent Project Gentoo
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Key facts

  • SPARC is big-endian
  • SPARC can come in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors
  • SPARC is notoriously strict on aligned access to memory; unaligned accesses often lead to SIGBUSes being sent. See bug #371525.
  • Our current developer hardware is catbus (previously we had bender).

Keywording policy

ARCH=sparc has best-effort stable keywords: both stage3s and the installcd use stable packages.

Please keep adding sparc@ to the CC list for STABLEREQs if sparc already has stable keywords for a package.

Recruitment

We are currently looking for users interested in helping the project with one or more jobs.

To learn more, visit the Staffing Needs page.

Documentation

The following is a list of available documentation for Gentoo on the SPARC platform.