On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:04:55AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 > Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we > > had support for subarchtectures, not only would the ix86 mess be able to > > be split in many flavors (i.e. strict 386, 486 and up, 686, or whatever > > you fancy). And I am sure this can somehow help maintain the non-Linux > > ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new > > platforms. > > No it doesn't. I've yet to even hear of an architecture that NetBSD runs > on but which Linux doesn't. They just have a different definition of > "architecture" than us. (ie: our "hppa" may be three or four arches to > the NetBSD kernel folk.)
They support the vax, and openbsd (nearly) supports the m88k. The others look (to me, I didn't look very hard) like their CPUs are supported Frank