Gentoo dropping support of SPARC

Posted Jun 7, 2017 13:54 UTC (Wed) by glaubitz (subscriber, #96452)
In reply to: Gentoo dropping support of SPARC by pizza
Parent article: Gentoo dropping support of SPARC

> It's worth mentioning that the oldest UltraSPARC/sun4u machines are over two decades old now.

Exactly. And all of these are fully supported by the sparc64 ports of Debian and OpenBSD. They're not
supported by Oracle's own distributions Linux for SPARC and Oracle Linux though as these require
"sun4v". But Oracle fully supports the development of sparc64.

They are working on: golang, the kernel, GRUB, Ocaml, gcc, binutils and much more.

People interested in Linux on SPARC should join #sparc on Freenode.