•
DEC Alpha (alpha) •
Synopsys DesignWare
ARC cores, originally developed by
ARC International (arc) •
ARM family of instruction sets (32- and 64-bit) (arm and arm64): •
Acorn Archimedes and
RiscPC series (original machines were supported in 2.6.22) •
Allwinner •
Apple A series processors •
Apple M series processors •
Broadcom VideoCore • DEC
StrongARM •
Samsung Exynos •
Marvell (formerly Intel)
XScale •
Sharp Zaurus •
HiSilicon •
iPAQ •
Palm, Inc.'s
Tungsten Handheld •
GamePark Holdings'
GP2X •
Open Pandora •
MediaTek •
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet •
Nokia N800 •
Nokia N810 •
Nokia N900 •
Nomadik •
NovaThor (discontinued) •
gumstix •
Sony Mylo •
Qualcomm Snapdragon •
Nvidia Tegra •
TI OMAP •
Psion 5, 5MX, Series 7, netBook •
Rockchip • Some models of Apple
iPods (via
iPodLinux) •
OpenMoko Neo 1973,
Neo FreeRunner •
Freescale's (formerly
Motorola's)
i.MX multimedia processors •
C-SKY (csky) •
Qualcomm Hexagon (hexagon) •
Loongson • LoongArch32 (loongarch32) • LoongArch64 (loongarch64) •
Freescale's (formerly
Motorola's)
68k architecture (68020, 68030, 68040, 68060) (m68k): • Some
Amigas:
A1200,
A2500,
A3000,
A4000 •
Apple Macintosh II,
LC,
Quadra,
Centris and early
Performa series • Some Atari computers (TT and Falcon030) •
MicroBlaze from
Xilinx (microblaze) •
MIPS architecture (mips): •
Dingoo •
Infineon's Amazon & Danube Network Processors •
Ingenic Jz4740 •
Loongson (MIPS-compatible), and models 2 and 2E, from BLX IC Design Ltd (
China) • Some
PlayStation 2 models, through the
PS2 Linux project •
PlayStation Portable uClinux 2.4.19 port •
Broadcom wireless chipsets •
Dreambox (HD models) • Cavium Octeon packet processors •
Intel (Altera) NIOS II ARM - nios2 •
OpenRISC (openrisc) •
OpenRISC 1000 family in the mainline Linux Kernel as of 3.1 • Beyond Semiconductor OR1200 • Beyond Semiconductor OR1210 •
Hewlett-Packard's
PA-RISC (parisc) •
PowerPC architecture (powerpc): • IBM's
Cell (
Sony's
PlayStation 3) • Most pre-Intel Apple computers (all PCI-based
Power Macintoshes, limited support for the older
NuBus Power Macs) • Clones of the PCI Power Mac marketed by
Power Computing,
UMAX and
Motorola • Amigas upgraded with a "Power-UP" card (such as the Blizzard or CyberStorm) •
AmigaOne motherboard from Eyetech Group Ltd (
UK) •
Samantha from Soft3 (Italy) • IBM
RS/6000,
AS/400 and
pSeries systems •
Pegasos I and II boards from Genesi •
GameCube and
Wii, through GameCube Linux • Project
BlackDog from Realm Systems, Inc. • Microsoft's
Xbox 360, through the
free60 project •
V-Dragon CPU from Culturecom • Virtex II Pro
field-programmable gate array (FPGA) from
Xilinx with PowerPC cores •
Dreambox (non-HD models) •
RISC-V (riscv) •
z/Architecture (
IBM Z and
IBM LinuxONE) (s390x) •
SuperH (sh) •
Sega Dreamcast (SuperH SH4) •
HP Jornada 680 through
Jlime distribution (SuperH SH3) •
SPARC (sparc) • SPARC (32-bit): •
LEON • UltraSPARC (64-bit): •
Sun Ultra series •
Sun Blade •
Sun Fire •
SPARC Enterprise systems, also the based on the
UltraSPARC T1,
UltraSPARC T2,
UltraSPARC T3, and Ultra
SPARC T4 processors •
x86 architecture (x86): •
IBM PC compatibles using
IA-32 and
x86-64 processors: • The entire
Pentium series and its
Celeron and
Xeon variants •
Intel Core processors • AMD 5x86,
K5,
K6,
Athlon (all 32-bit versions),
Duron,
Sempron •
x86-64: 64-bit processor architecture, now officially known as AMD64 (AMD) or Intel64 (Intel); supported by the
Athlon 64,
Opteron and
Intel Core 2 processors, among others • Cyrix 5x86,
6x86 (M1), 6x86MX and
MediaGX (National/AMD Geode) series •
VIA Technologies Eden (Samuel II),
VIA C3, and
VIA C7 processors (all 32-bit) and
VIA Nano (x86-64) •
Zhaoxin ZX-7000. •
Transmeta Crusoe •
Microsoft's
Xbox (Pentium III processor), through the
Xbox Linux project •
SGI Visual Workstation (Pentium II/III processor(s) with SGI chipset) •
FM Towns •
Sun Microsystems Sun386i workstation (80386 and 80486) • Support for
8086,
8088,
80186,
80188 and
80286 CPUs is under development (the
ELKS fork) •
Xtensa from
Tensilica (xtensa) Additional processors (particularly Freescale's 68000 and
ColdFire) are supported by the MMU-less
μClinux variant. == Formerly supported ==