Issue #21371 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans). ioquatix (Samuel Williams) wrote in #note-5:
Are there any official Linux distributions other than OpenBSD/sparc64 that still support SPARC? There appears to be a somewhat active (unofficial?) Debian port, but I couldn't find anything else. (Of course, Solaris still exists but for how long?)
As far as I can see, active operating systems supporting SPARC: * Solaris * OpenBSD (officially supported: https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html) * NetBSD (Tier I support: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/) * Debian (unofficial according to https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures, but appears maintained) * Gentoo (appears official: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/#sparc) ---------------------------------------- Misc #21371: Proposal to Remove SPARC Architecture Support from Ruby https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21371#change-113423 * Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams) * Status: Assigned * Assignee: ngoto (Naohisa Goto) ---------------------------------------- We propose removing support for the SPARC architecture from Ruby. SPARC has seen little to no community usage in recent years, and its continued presence in the codebase, particularly through special cases like `rb_sparc_flush_register_windows` adds complexity without clear benefit. Removing SPARC support will reduce maintenance overhead and simplify Ruby’s internals. ## Proposal We propose removing all SPARC-specific code from the Ruby source tree, including `rb_sparc_flush_register_windows` and related build system conditionals. This change would be noted in the release documentation and targeted for inclusion in Ruby 4.0. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/