Subject: Re: Debian runs on more archs than NetBSD?
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 10/16/2001 10:11:10
	Sorry, I forgot that we have both big and little endian ports of
	sh3. That takes the current NetBSD MACHINE_ARCH list to 16 (though
	again that should go down to 15 when arm26 and arm32 merge).

	    alpha   alpha
	    arm26   arm26
	    arm32   acorn32 cats dnard hpcarm netwinder
	    i386    i386
	    m68000  sun2
	    m68k    amiga atari cesfic hp300 luna68k mac68k mvme68k news68k
		    next68k sun3 x68k
	    mipseb  mipsco newsmips sgimips
	    mipsel  algor arc cobalt hpcmips pmax
	    ns32k   pc532
	    powerpc amigappc bebox macppc ofppc prep sandpoint walnut
	    sh3eb   evbsh3 mmeye
	    sh3el   dreamcast evbsh3 hpcsh
	    sparc   sparc
	    sparc64 sparc64
	    vax      vax
	    x86_64  x86_64


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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Your friend appears to be mistaken :)
>
> 	They appear to be counting 'compiler targets' as architectures,
> 	in which case the list would be:
>
> Debian		NetBSD
> ^^^^^^		^^^^^^
> alpha		alpha
> arm		arm (*1)
> hppa		-
> hurd-i386	-
> i386		i386
> ia64		-
> -		m68000 (*2)
> m68k		m68k
> mips		mips
> mipsel		mipsel
> -		ns32k
> powerpc		powerpc
> s390		-
> sh		sh3
> sparc		sparc
> -		sparc64 (*3)
> -		vax
> -		x86_64
> =13		=14
>
> 	(*1) Currently we have arm26 and arm32 as distinct targets, but
> 	     it is planned to merge them, so I'll play nice and count
> 	     them as one :)
> 	(*2) The sun2 port is based on a 68010 and will not run what gnu
> 	     and everyone else refers to as 'm68k' binaries, which are
> 	     68020 or better.
> 	(*3) This is 64bit sparc binaries, distinct from sparc.
>
>