Project:HPPA

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HPPA Development
Description The Gentoo HPPA project is designed to bring the Gentoo GNU/Linux operating system to the HP Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) platforms. We aim to provide a usable computing environment for your various HPPA related endeavors.
Project email hppa@gentoo.org
Packages p.g.o/hppa@gentoo.org


IRC channel #gentoo-hppa (webchat)
Bugs Related bugs
Lead(s) none
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Parent Project Gentoo
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The Gentoo HPPA project is designed to bring the Gentoo GNU/Linux operating system to the HP Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) platforms. We aim to provide a usable computing environment for your various HPPA related endeavors. Since hardware graphics support for Linux is rare in HPPA computers, the project focuses on server usage.

Key facts

  • Bitness
    • HPPA 1.1 is 32-bit
    • HPPA 2.0 is 64-bit
  • HPPA is big-endian
  • HPPA notably has an unusual stack direction (it grows upwards!)
  • Developer hardware: muta and hake.

Project status

HPPA is a security supported architecture. It runs pretty stable.

Keywording policy

ARCH=hppa has best-effort stable keywords: stage3 and installcd uses stable packages.

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

Participation

If you need help, want to help, have some problems, or if you just want to speak with us, join #gentoo-hppa (webchat) on Libera.Chat. We are always happy if someone report us a successful installation and always ready to help if you got problems.

On the other hand, if you discover a bug please fill a bug report in our Bugzilla.

A mailing list is available, too. To subscribe, visit the mailing lists.

See also

  • Handbook:HPPA — A handbook dedicated to installing and configuring the hppa architecture., an effort to centralize documentation into a coherent handbook.