Re: Linux 64 bit - Trillium

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 07:46:09 EST


On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
> At Linux 1.2.* series (1995) mainline kernel already supported:
> - i386 (32 bits)
> - Alpha (64 bits)
> - SPARC (32 bits)
> - MIPS (32 bits)
>
> Now Linux 2.2 already supports:
> - i386 (32 bits)
> - Alpha (64 bits)
> - SPARC (32 and 64 bits versions)
> - MIPS (32 bits)
> - PowerPC (32 bits)
> - ARM (32 bits)
> - M68K (32 bits)
>
> don't forget the IBM S/390 mainframe port, which was merged into
> 2.2.1. (don't know word size)

Oh, and added to this, v2.4 will probably support at least these (unless
someone reverses the patches) in addition:

        - PowerPC (64 bits)
        - MIPS (64 bits)
        - SuperH (32 bits)

Right now, the S390 port is v2.2 only; I hope it'll be forward-ported
into the v2.3 tree as soon as v2.3 stabilizes a little.

Now what I see is missing would be:

        - Whatever processor VAX:en use
        - 88k
        - Crays (the non-vector models; I suspect that Linux doesn't
                 would be very suitable on a vector-machine. But I could
                 be wrong)
        - AS/400 (something akin to the S/390 port; a virtual machine
                  is needed because of the lack of memory protection in
                  hardware)

Have I missed something out?!

/David Weinehall
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