As of Debian 8 ("Jessie") Debian no longer ships single-platform kernel flavours for the armhf port and instead ships two "multiplatform" kernel flavours: the regular armmp flavour and armmp-lpae which supports processors with Large Physical Address Extensions. Debian Installer will automatically install the armmp-lpae kernel if it detects that the hardware supports it.
These armmp images support a large number of platforms through the use of Device Tree (also known as dtb or fdt).
Debian ships a large number of upstream provided Device Tree Blobs as part of the kernel image, however this does not necessarily imply full support for the platform (e.g. support for all peripherals, integration with the installer etc).
Platform |
Available Since |
LPAE?1 |
Full Debian Installer2 |
Platform Specific Notes |
Allwinner (sunxi) |
8 (Jessie) |
|
some |
|
Altera SOCFPGA |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Amlogic Meson |
10 (Buster) |
|
? |
|
Arm Versatile Express |
8 (Jessie) |
some |
? |
|
Broadcom BCM2836 |
9 (Stretch) |
|
? |
|
Calxeda Highbank |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Calxeda Midway |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Freescale iMX5x/iMX6 |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Marvell Armada 370 |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Marvell Armada XP |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Marvell Dove |
10 (Buster) |
|
? |
|
Marvell MMP2 |
Bullseye |
|
? |
|
Nvidia Tegra |
9 (Stretch) |
some |
? |
InstallingDebianOn/Acer/Chromebook_13_CB5-311-T8BT, InstallingDebianOn/CompuLab, InstallingDebianOn/NVIDIA/Jetson-TK1 InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba/AC100 |
QEMU virt machine |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Rockchip |
9 (Stretch) |
some |
? |
InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C101PA, InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201, InstallingDebianOn/Asus/TinkerBoard |
Samsung Exynos5 |
8 (Jessie) |
|
|
InstallingDebianOn/OdroidHC1, InstallingDebianOn/Samsung/ARMChromebook |
TI OMAP3/OMAP4 |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
TI OMAP5 |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
TI AM33xx |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
TI DRA7xxx |
9 (Stretch) |
|
? |
|
WonderMedia WM8850 |
8 (Jessie) |
|
? |
|
Xen Virtual Machine |
8 (Jessie) |
|
|
|