Magnus Lindholm | 30 Dec 2011 19:28
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a gentoo-based linux on sun sparc32 sun4m

Hi all,

It occurred to me that there are no currently active and up-to-date
linux distros that support sparc32 hardware.
I've put together a gentoo based linux in the form of a live-cd and a
"stage3" system tarball. Those of you that are familiar with gentoo
will know what to do. If not, just follow the gentoo sparc install
guide.

I've tested it on sparcstation 4,5, 10 and 20. The sparcstation 10 and
20 I've tested with SMP. Hypersparc works as well but not with a more
recent kernel than 2.6.31.9. Single CPU microsparc and supersparc work
with recent kernels like 3.1.5

let me know if you want to give it a try, I can provide an install iso
and a system tarball via ftp.

Regards

Magnus Lindholm

Gmane