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.
>
>