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The Linux kernel is portable and supports the following computer architectures:
- Alpha architecture:
- Analog Devices
- ARM architecture:
- Atmel AVR32
- Axis Communications' ETRAX CRIS
- C6X from Texas Instruments
- Freescale's (formerly Motorola's) 68k architecture (68020, 68030, 68040, 68060):
- Fujitsu FR-V
- Hexagon from Qualcomm
- Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC family
- H8 architecture from Renesas Technology, formerly Hitachi.
- IBM
- Intel IA-64 Itanium, Itanium II
- x86 architecture:
- IBM PC compatibles using IA-32 and x86-64 processors:
- Intel 80386 (abandoned in version 3.8), 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
- Microblaze from Xilinx
- MIPS architecture:
- MN103 from Panasonic Corporation
- OpenRISC
- OpenRISC 1000 family in the mainline Linux Kernel as of 3.1.
- Beyond Semiconductor OR1200
- Beyond Semiconductor OR1210
- Power Architecture:
- 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
- Microsoft's Xbox 360, through the free60 project
- 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):
- UltraSPARC (64-bit):
- SuperH
- Sega Dreamcast (SuperH SH4)
- HP Jornada 680 through Jlime distribution (SuperH SH3)
- S+core
- Tilera
- Xtensa from Tensilica
- UniCore32
Out of the official tree:
Additional processors (particularly Freescale's 68000 and ColdFire) are supported by the MMU-less μClinux variant.
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