| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:10:06 -0500 |
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:07:10PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote: > If you want the *ultimate* in portability and are okay with not-Linux, > NetBSD supports a ridiculously large number of platforms. From the 1.6 > release notes, it looks like it supports "fifty two different system > architectures featuring seventeen machine architectures across eleven > distinct CPU families," and 1.6 has a complete binary release for 39 of > those 52. > > Hmm... considering the quote, I wonder how many architectures the 11 > that Debian supports would translate to in NetBSD-speak. ;) Debian supports 11 *machine* architectures, of which NetBSD supports 17. (Didn't we have this conversation a month ago on IRC? ;^>) "CPU families" groups, for instance, the sparc and sparc64 together (if Debian does this, then it means you aren't and can't run 64-bit code reliably), it also groups RS6000s with the PowerPC chips used in Macs (NetBSD supports both of those, though with a separate of the 52--both includued in the 39--system architectures... I know Debian supports the latter, but I don't know that it supports the former). Also, note that some system architecutres like "macppc" are a bit problematic. There are PowerPC macs that lack OpenFirmware; NetBSD can't boot on those, though I think that Debian should be able to, by way of code from either MkLinux or LinuxPPC (hopefully the latter). NetBSD's port is more generally called ofwppc, which is counted as a separate of the 52, as it does boot, by itself, on some reference platform boards. The macppc port has in-kernel things specific to Apple's hardware. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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