diff --git a/src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs b/src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs
index 2872c59157d6..1ea23c1ea9ca 100644
--- a/src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_back/target/mod.rs
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ supported_targets! {
     ("powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu", powerpc64_unknown_linux_gnu),
     ("powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu", powerpc64le_unknown_linux_gnu),
     ("s390x-unknown-linux-gnu", s390x_unknown_linux_gnu),
+    ("sparc-unknown-linux-gnu", sparc_unknown_linux_gnu),
     ("sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu", sparc64_unknown_linux_gnu),
     ("arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi", arm_unknown_linux_gnueabi),
     ("arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf", arm_unknown_linux_gnueabihf),
diff --git a/src/librustc_back/target/sparc_unknown_linux_gnu.rs b/src/librustc_back/target/sparc_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a03e6937b2ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/librustc_back/target/sparc_unknown_linux_gnu.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+use LinkerFlavor;
+use target::{Target, TargetResult};
+
+pub fn target() -> TargetResult {
+    let mut base = super::linux_base::opts();
+    base.cpu = "v9".to_string();
+    base.max_atomic_width = Some(64);
+    base.pre_link_args.get_mut(&LinkerFlavor::Gcc).unwrap().push("-mv8plus".to_string());
+    base.exe_allocation_crate = None;
+
+    Ok(Target {
+        llvm_target: "sparc-unknown-linux-gnu".to_string(),
+        target_endian: "big".to_string(),
+        target_pointer_width: "32".to_string(),
+        target_c_int_width: "32".to_string(),
+        data_layout: "E-m:e-p:32:32-i64:64-f128:64-n32-S64".to_string(),
+        arch: "sparc".to_string(),
+        target_os: "linux".to_string(),
+        target_env: "gnu".to_string(),
+        target_vendor: "unknown".to_string(),
+        linker_flavor: LinkerFlavor::Gcc,
+        options: base,
+    })
+}