Sparc and Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity in 2026 with Linux 7.0
6 hours ago
- #Kernel
- #CPU
- #Linux
- SPARC, Alpha, and Motorola 680x0 (m68k) CPU ports receive updates in Linux 7.0 kernel.
- Alpha updates address user-space corruption during memory compaction.
- SPARC updates include header changes, bug fixes for fork/clone, clone3 support, and API improvements.
- m68k updates involve replacing vsprintf() with vsnprintf() on Sun-3 and a NuBus driver fix.
- Maintenance for these older architectures continues despite being increasingly rare.