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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 |
|
Hundreds |
Dead |
NetWinder, NSLU2, ... |
|
Hundreds |
Dead |
QNAP, ?SheevaPlug, Raspberry Pi 1. Unsupported since forky. |
|
Hundreds |
Supported |
Arm v7 32-bit systems; for kernel support see DebianKernel/ARMMP |
|
Hundreds |
Supported |
Arm v8 64-bit systems |
|
hppa |
HPe (formerly HP) |
Unofficial |
HP Precision Architecture |
Intel, AMD, Cyrix, NSC, Transmeta, VIA |
Partial |
The original x86 platform. Now requires "686" class CPU. Unsupported in trixie and newer except in chroots on amd64 hosts. |
|
AMD, Intel, VIA |
Supported |
also known as em64t or x86-64. |
|
ia64 |
Intel, HPe |
Dead |
Itanium (not Intel Core series) |
Freescale (formerly Motorola) |
Unofficial |
Amiga, !AtariST, very old Macintoshes, some old Sun hardware (sun3) |
|
Cavium, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) |
Dead |
Big-endian 32-bit |
|
Cavium, Loongson, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) |
Dead |
Little-endian 32-bit |
|
Cavium, Loongson, Wave Computing (formerly Imagination, MIPS) |
Dead |
Little-endian 64-bit. Unsupported since trixie. |
|
IBM, Freescale (formerly Motorola) |
Unofficial |
Old Macintoshes |
|
IBM, Freescale (formerly Motorola) |
Dead |
IBM "e500" cores |
|
IBM, Freescale (formerly Motorola) |
Unofficial |
Old Macintoshes, IBM POWER systems |
|
IBM |
Supported |
POWER8, POWER9 systems |
|
?SiFive, etc. |
Supported |
Since trixie. |
|
s390 |
IBM |
Dead |
BigIron - IBM mainframe platform |
s390x |
IBM |
Supported |
Newer BigIron - IBM mainframe platform |
Renesas (formerly Hitachi) |
Unofficial |
|
|
Sun, Fujitsu, etc. |
Dead |
32-bit |
|
Sun, Fujitsu, etc. |
Unofficial |
64-bit |
|
AMD, Intel, VIA |
Unofficial |
32-bit ABI using x86-64 (amd64) ISA. |
non-Linux
Architecture |
Kernel |
Status |
Comments |
hurd-i386 |
see TheHurd |
Unofficial |
Not a hardware platform |
see TheHurd |
Unofficial |
Not a hardware platform |
|
netbsd-i386 |
NetBSD kernel |
Dead |
Not a hardware platform |
netbsd-alpha |
NetBSD kernel |
Dead |
Not a hardware platform |
FreeBSD kernel |
Dead |
Not a hardware platform |
|
FreeBSD kernel |
Dead |
Not a hardware platform |
CategoryDeveloper CategoryPorts CategoryProposedDeletion: not maintained, duplicates information from elsewhere