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In this case, "Architecture" refers to the computer platform the user wishes to deploy Debian on. In most cases, you should read this page first:

Developers might refer also to ArchitectureSpecificsMemo.

Linux

Still, Here's a table describing the status of the various platforms.

Chip

Manufacturer

Status

Comments

Alpha

HewlettPackard (formerly Compaq, formerly Digital)

Supported

[:ArmEabiPort:Arm]

Hundreds

Supported

NetWinder, Ipaq, Sharp Zaurus, NSLU-2, ...

[:ArmEabiPort:Armel]

Hundreds

Supported

NetWinder, Ipaq, Sharp Zaurus, NSLU-2, ...

hppa

HewlettPackard

Supported

HP Precision Architecture

["i386"]

Intel/AMD/Cyrix/...

Supported

The original platform

[:DebianAMD64:amd64]

Intel, AMD

Supported

also known as em64t or x86-64.

ia64

Intel

Supported

Itanium (not Intel Core series)

[:M68k:m68k]

Motorola

Supported

Amiga, !AtariST, old Macintoshes, some old Sun hardware (sun3)

[:MIPSPort:mips]

SGI

Supported

SGI Graphics Workstations run on this RISC chip; big endian

[:MIPSPort:mipsel]

Digital

Supported

Digital Decstations, SGI with RISC chip; little endian

["PowerPC"]

IBM/Motorola/Apple

Supported

Newer Macintoshes

s390

IBM

Supported

BigIron - IBM mainframe platform

s390x

IBM

In progress

Newer BigIron - IBM mainframe platform

[:SHPort:sh]

Hitachi

In progress

[:PortsSparc:sparc]

Sun

Supported

Both 32-bit and 64-bit are supported

non-Linux

hurd-i386

see TheHurd

In progress

Not a hardware platform

netbsd-i386

NetBSD kernel

In progress

Not a hardware platform

netbsd-alpha

NetBSD kernel

In progress

Not a hardware platform

[:Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD:kfreebsd-i386]

FreeBSD kernel

In progress

Not a hardware platform

[:Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD:kfreebsd-amd64]

FreeBSD kernel

In progress

Not a hardware platform


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