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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.

Architecture	Manufacturer	Status	Comments
Alpha	HPe (formerly HP, Compaq, Digital)	Unofficial
Arm	Hundreds	Unsupported	NetWinder, NSLU2, ...
Armel	Hundreds	Supported	QNAP, ?SheevaPlug, Raspberry Pi 1
armhf	Hundreds	Supported	Arm v7 32-bit systems; for kernel support see DebianKernel/ARMMP
arm64	Hundreds	Supported	Arm v8 64-bit systems
hppa	HPe (formerly HP)	Unofficial	HP Precision Architecture
i386	Intel, AMD, Cyrix, NSC, Transmeta, VIA	Supported	The original x86 platform. Now requires "686" class CPU.
amd64	AMD, Intel, VIA	Supported	also known as em64t or x86-64.
ia64	Intel, HPe	Unofficial	Itanium (not Intel Core series)
m68k	Freescale (formerly Motorola)	Unofficial	Amiga, !AtariST, very old Macintoshes, some old Sun hardware (sun3)
mips	Cavium, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS)	Supported	Big-endian 32-bit
mipsel	Cavium, Loongson, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS)	Supported	Little-endian 32-bit
mips64el	Cavium, Loongson, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS)	Supported	Little-endian 64-bit
PowerPC	IBM, Freescale (formerly Motorola)	Unofficial	Old Macintoshes
ppc64el	IBM	Supported	POWER8, POWER9 systems
riscv64	?SiFive, etc.	Unofficial
s390	IBM	Unsupported	BigIron - IBM mainframe platform
s390x	IBM	Supported	Newer BigIron - IBM mainframe platform
SH4	Renesas (formerly Hitachi)	Unofficial
sparc64	Sun	Unofficial
x32	AMD, Intel, VIA	Unofficial	32-bit ABI using x86-64 (amd64) ISA.

CategoryDeveloper CategoryPorts CategoryProposedDeletion: not maintained, duplicates information from elsewhere

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-|| [[MIPSPort|mips]] || Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) || Supported || Cavium; big endian ||
|| [[MIPSPort|mipsel]] || Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) || Supported || Loongson; little endian ||
+|| [[MIPSPort|mips]] || Cavium, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) || Supported || Big-endian 32-bit ||
|| [[MIPSPort|mipsel]] || Cavium, Loongson, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) || Supported || Little-endian 32-bit ||
|| [[MIPSPort|mips64el]] || Cavium, Loongson, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) || Supported || Little-endian 64-bit ||