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The Linux kernel is portable and supports the following computer architectures:

• Alpha architecture:
  • DEC Alpha
  • Samsung Alpha CPU
• Analog Devices
  • Blackfin (since 2.6.22)
• 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):
  • Some Amigas: A1200, A2500, A3000, A4000
  • Apple Macintosh II, LC, Quadra, Centris and early Performa series
• 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]
• 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)
  • 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
• SuperH
  • Sega Dreamcast (SuperH SH4)
  • HP Jornada 680 through Jlime distribution (SuperH SH3)
• S+core

Additional processors (particularly Freescale's 68000 and ColdFire) are supported by the MMU-less μClinux variant.

See also

Linux portal

Free software portal

• Comparison of operating systems
• Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
• User-mode Linux

References

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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