List of Linux supported architectures
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The Linux kernel is portable and supports the following computer architectures:
- Alpha architecture:
- DEC Alpha
- Samsung Alpha CPU
- Analog Devices
- Argonaut RISC Core (ARC) from ARC International
- ARM architecture:
- Acorn Archimedes and Risc PC series
- DEC StrongARM
- Marvell (formerly Intel) XScale
- Sharp Zaurus
- iPAQ
- Palm, Inc.'s Tungsten Handheld[1]
- Gamepark Holdings' GP2X
- Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
- Nokia N800
- Nokia N810
- gumstix
- Nintendo DS via DSlinux
- Sony Mylo
- Psion 5, 5MX, Series 7, netBook
- Some Models of Apple iPods (see iPodLinux)
- OpenMoko Neo 1973
- Freescale's (formerly Motorola) i.MX multimedia processors
- Atmel AVR32
- Axis Communications' ETRAX CRIS
- Freescale 68k architecture (68020, 68030, 68040, 68060):
- Fujitsu FR-V
- Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC family
- H8 architecture from Renesas Technology, formerly Hitachi.
- H8/300
- H8/500
- IBM
- System/390 (31-bit)
- zSeries and System z9 mainframes (64-bit)
- Intel IA-64 Itanium, Itanium II
- x86 architecture:
- IBM PC compatibles using IA-32 and x86-64 processors:
- Intel 80386, 80486, and their AMD, Cyrix, Texas Instruments and IBM variants
- The entire Pentium series and its Celeron and Xeon variants
- The Intel Core processors
- AMD 5x86, K5, K6, Athlon (all 32-bit versions), Duron, Sempron
- x86-64: 64-bit processor architecture, now officially known as AMD64 (AMD) or Intel64 (Intel); supported by the Athlon 64, Opteron and Intel Core 2 processors, among others
- Cyrix 5x86, 6x86 (M1), 6x86MX and MediaGX (National/AMD Geode) series
- VIA Technologies Eden (Samuel II), VIA C3, and VIA C7 processors
- Microsoft's Xbox (Pentium III processor), through the Xbox Linux project
- SGI Visual Workstation (Pentium II/III processor(s) with SGI chipset)
- Sun Microsystems Sun386i workstation (80386 and 80486)
- Support for 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188 and 80286 CPUs is under development (the ELKS fork)[2]
- IBM PC compatibles using IA-32 and x86-64 processors:
- M32R from Mitsubishi
- MIPS architecture:
- Dingoo
- Infineon's Amazon & Danube Network Processors
- Jazz
- Cobalt Qube, Cobalt RaQ
- DECstation
- Loongson (MIPS-compatible), Loongson 2, and Loongson 2E from BLX IC Design Ltd (China)
- Some PlayStation 2 models, through the PS2 Linux project
- PlayStation Portable uClinux 2.4.19 port [1]
- Broadcom wireless chipsets
- Dreambox (HD models) [3]
- Cavium Octeon packet processors
- OpenRISC open core processor series:
- Beyond Semiconductor OR1200
- Beyond Semiconductor OR1210
- Power Architecture:
- IBM Servers
- PowerPC architecture:
- IBM's Cell
- Most pre-Intel Apple computers (all PCI-based Power Macintoshes, limited support for the older NuBus Power Macs)
- Clones of the PCI Power Mac marketed by Power Computing, UMAX and Motorola
- Amigas upgraded with a "Power-UP" card (such as the Blizzard or CyberStorm)
- AmigaOne motherboard from Eyetech Group Ltd (UK)
- Samantha from Soft3 (Italy)
- Amy'05 PowerPC motherboard from Troika
- IBM RS/6000, iSeries and pSeries systems
- Pegasos I and II boards from Genesi
- Nintendo GameCube and Wii, through Nintendo GameCube Linux
- Project BlackDog from Realm Systems, Inc.
- Sony Playstation 3
- V-Dragon CPU from Culturecom.
- Virtex II Pro Field Programmable Array (FPGA) from Xilinx with PowerPC cores.
- Dreambox (non-HD models) [4]
- SPARC
- SPARC (32-bit):
- Sun-4 (to be abandoned in version 2.6.27)
- SPARCstation/SPARCserver series (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d)
- SPARC (64-bit):
- Sun Ultra series
- Sun Blade
- Sun Fire
- SPARC Enterprise systems based on the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 processors
- SPARC (32-bit):
- SuperH
- S+core
Additional processors (particularly Freescale's 68000 and ColdFire) are supported by the MMU-less μClinux variant.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Jae Yun Moon and Lee Sproull (November 2000). "Essence of Distributed Work: The Case of the Linux Kernel". First Monday 5 (11). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_11/moon/.
- BlueCat — Linux Kernel Porting Guide
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