Today marks a new phase in the life of RTEMS, as we introduce the first 64-bit processor family, the SPARC V9 (sparc64). Gedare Bloom (GSOC 2010 student) and Eugen Leontie (husband of GSOC 2009 student) have worked diligently to port RTEMS to the SPARC V9 CPU and have provided two BSPs that support the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC III processors.

The target sparc-rtems4.11 is already included in the standard tool chain with RPMs available for RPM based GNU/Linux distributions. Thanks to Ralf Corsepius for providing these tools and assisting in the review of this code.

The Niagara BSP for the UltraSPARC T1 can be executed using the free simulator m5sim. Qemu and other simulators should also be able to be used for these BSPs but this has not been attempted yet.