13 Architectures
October 7th, 2009 by 
Multimedia Mike
An impromptu query from the FATE database:
mysql> SELECT DISTINCT(architecture) FROM web_config_cache WHERE revision IS NOT NULL ORDER BY architecture;
This yields 13 architectures currently being continuously tested in FATE:
+--------------+ | architecture | +--------------+ | Alpha | | ARMv5TE | | ARMv7 | | AVR32 | | ia64 | | MIPS | | PA-RISC | | PowerPC | | PowerPC 64 | | Sparc | | Sparc64 | | x86_32 | | x86_64 | +--------------+
I suppose it’s questionable to treat ARMv5TE and ARMv7 as truly separate architectures. Still, it’s not a bad list of CPU coverage. It makes me wonder how it stacks up to the Linux kernel in terms of CPU support. According to Wikipedia, Linux still has the advantage.
One day I’ll figure out a way to continuously test FFmpeg on a Hitachi SH-4 using my old Sega Dreamcast. That’ll bring us closer.
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5 Comments »
October 8th, 2009 at 3:18 am
What about operating systems? I’m sure we’re ahead of Linux there ;-)
October 8th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Indeed. OS count is current 11:
DOS
DragonFly BSD
FreeBSD
Linux
Mac OS X
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OpenSolaris
Solaris 10
Windows/Cygwin
Windows/MinGW
Although those last 2 don’t really count as separate platforms.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Minix3 is a candidate for the list, I’m awaiting better c99 compliance.
October 13th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
This may be an ignorant question but, why 4 flavours of BSD? A similar questions with regard to Solaris 10 vs OpenSolaris though I suspect there probably some more major difference there.
October 18th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Quite the contrary, those BSD sytems differ more than SunOS 5.10 and SunOS 5.11.