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On Jan 30 2007 21:23, Diego Calleja wrote: > >Sure, Linux doesn't support vax and the like, but it does support lots of >architectures that matter. In http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu >there's a more Linux-like view of the architectures supported. Although >Netbsd people will argue that porting a architecture to Linux is more >difficult and that Linux gets support just because there's a lot of $$$ >around it. A real one time argument. There's much more $ around Windows and yet, there are (I presume) almost only drivers for x86 (and slowly coming, x86_64). IA64? Well, you probably don't run desktop peripherals there, but vendors don't have a driver at hand easily. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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