On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:40 +0800, Happy Kamote Foundation wrote:
> > Im sorry I dont follow you on this. If we are going to count it all > "per chip/cpu" that netbsd supports or runs on nicely, then probably > this will be a reaaaaaaaaaaally long email. > > For those interested to check everything out please go to this site > > http://netbsd.org/Ports/ > and you can click on each "port" (or architecture) and see the > numerous supported chips and devices under it. Each architecture has a > corresponding development reports. For your convenience, the list I presented in my previous email came from that page, particularly from http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu. Ports differ from architectures - there can be a lot of ports (given that some chips may have some differences or features absent/present) but the CPU architecture/family remains the same. Ex. 1) An SGI workstation runs on MIPS R12000 processor, while your lowly Linksys router also runs on a MIPS 68000 processor. Both, however, don't belong to the same port, as the 68000 is a 32-bit embedded processor, while the R12000 is a 64-bit server/workstation processor. 2) The 4-way SMT Power4 chip (the origin chip of the PowerPC 970, aka G5), while belonging to the Power architecture, doesn't share the same port as its child PowerPC 970, which is not SMT, has the Altivec SIMD chip, etc. It doesn't even share the same port as the venerable AS/400. 3) The ARM architecture has ports for the Sharp Zaurus, as well as the XScale chip (which runs on HP PDA's and Treos). 3) The x86 architecture itself has a couple of interesting ports as well: the 8088/80286 (16bit), the i386 (32 bit), the Voyager (which appeared on some lowend SGI workstations), etc. The thing is, Linux runs on all of those architectures and ports too. Linux also runs on architectures that NetBSD does not have a port or architecture released for it too, like the IBM Z series (although the core team is working on it), CRIS, the PC98 (which is not yet integrated). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
