Author: Richard Plangger <planri...@gmail.com> Branch: Changeset: r84020:9806eaad6bd9 Date: 2016-04-29 08:57 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/9806eaad6bd9/
Log: updated the FAQ entry (cpu architectures supported) diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst --- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst @@ -117,13 +117,22 @@ On which platforms does PyPy run? --------------------------------- -PyPy is regularly and extensively tested on Linux machines. It mostly +PyPy currently supports: + + * **x86** machines on most common operating systems + (Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64, Windows 32, OpenBSD, FreeBSD), + + * newer **ARM** hardware (ARMv6 or ARMv7, with VFPv3) running Linux, + + * big- and little-endian variants of **PPC64** running Linux, + + * **s390x** running Linux + +PyPy is regularly and extensively tested on Linux machines. It works on Mac and Windows: it is tested there, but most of us are running -Linux so fixes may depend on 3rd-party contributions. PyPy's JIT -works on x86 (32-bit or 64-bit) and on ARM (ARMv6 or ARMv7). -Support for POWER (64-bit) is stalled at the moment. +Linux so fixes may depend on 3rd-party contributions. -To bootstrap from sources, PyPy can use either CPython (2.6 or 2.7) or +To bootstrap from sources, PyPy can use either CPython 2.7 or another (e.g. older) PyPy. Cross-translation is not really supported: e.g. to build a 32-bit PyPy, you need to have a 32-bit environment. Cross-translation is only explicitly supported between a 32-bit Intel _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
