[sane-devel] A modern, free OS for SPARC (Re: Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository)

[Perry Hutchison]

"r. a. schmied" <uwppp at flash.net> wrote:
> third part 2: how about linux for sun4u sparc
> hardware?  i've not found a release or even
> a hint that such might be possible without
> substantial additional effort.

Had you considered FreeBSD?  It supports quite a few sparc64 machines:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/hardware.html#proc-sparc64