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))
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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.

Subprojects

The Gentoo SPARC project has the following subprojects:

Project Lead Description
Sparc AT jmorgan Architecture Testers for Gentoo/SPARC

Documentation

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

Additional notes

If you have something that you think would make a good sparc subproject, please contact the sparc team via email. This list will be updated to reflect new projects as they arise.

Work in progress; contributors are sorted alphabetically, only most important contributions are listed for each contributor. Your name should probably be here, if it isn't, remind us by mailing sparc@gentoo.org