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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.

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

Chip

Manufacturer

Status

Comments

Alpha

HewlettPackard (formerly Compaq, formerly Digital)

Unofficial

Arm

Hundreds

Unupported

NetWinder, NSLU2, ...

Armel

Hundreds

Supported

QNAP, ?SheevaPlug

armhf

Hundreds

Supported

Allwinder boards, etc

arm64

Hundreds

Supported

hppa

HewlettPackard

Unofficial

HP Precision Architecture

i386

Intel/AMD/Cyrix/...

Supported

The original platform

amd64

Intel, AMD

Supported

also known as em64t or x86-64.

ia64

Intel

Unsupported

Itanium (not Intel Core series)

m68k

Motorola

Unofficial

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

mips

Imagination Technologies

Supported

Cavium; big endian

mipsel

Imagination Technologies

Supported

Loongson; little endian

PowerPC

IBM/Motorola/Apple

Supported

Old Macintoshes

s390

IBM

Unsupported

BigIron - IBM mainframe platform

s390x

IBM

Supported

Newer BigIron - IBM mainframe platform

sh

Hitachi

In progress

sparc

Sun

Unofficial

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

kfreebsd-i386

FreeBSD kernel

Supported

Not a hardware platform

kfreebsd-amd64

FreeBSD kernel

Supported

Not a hardware platform


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