Project:SPARC
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| SPARC Development | |
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| 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) |
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| 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.