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3acorn32	arm	20011118	Acorn computers Ltd. ARM 6/7/SA based machines
4algor	mipsel,mips64el	20010528	Algorithmics, Ltd. MIPS evaluation boards
5alpha	alpha	19950213	Compaq (formerly Digital Equipment Corp.) Alpha
6amd64	x86_64	20010619	AMD's x86 64 bit architecture
7amiga	m68k	19930902	Commodore et al. Amiga
8amigappc	powerpc	20000525	Phase 5 Amiga
9arc	mipsel,mips64el	20000123	MIPS Advanced Risc Computing spec machines
10atari	m68k	19950326	Atari TT30, Falcon, and Hades
11bebox	powerpc	19971014	Be Inc. BeBox
12cats	arm	19981005	Chalice Technologies, CATS motherboard
13cesfic	m68k	20010514	FIC8234 VME processor board
14cobalt	mipsel,mips64el	20000319	Cobalt Networks Microservers
15dreamcast	sh3el	20010107	SEGA Dreamcast
16emips	mipseb	20110126	Machines based on Extensible MIPS
17epoc32	arm	20130502	32bit EPOC OS machines
18evbarm	armeb,aarch64	20010905	ARM-based eval boards
19evbmips	mipseb,mipsel,mips64eb,mips64el	20020307	MIPS-based eval boards
20evbppc	powerpc,powerpc64	20021209	PowerPC-based eval boards
21evbsh3	sh3eb,sh3el	20010206	Hitachi SuperH(TM) sh3 and sh4 eval boards
22ews4800mips	mipseb	20051229	NEC's MIPS based EWS4800 workstations
23hp300	m68k	19930512	Hewlett Packard 300- and 400-series machines
24hppa	hppa	20020606	Hewlett Packard 700-series machines
25hpcarm	arm	20010220	ARM based handheld PCs
26hpcmips	mipsel	19990925	MIPS based handheld PCs
27hpcsh	sh3el	20010117	Hitachi SuperH(TM) based handheld PCs
28i386	i386	19930321	Intel/AMD etc. x86 processor line
29ia64	ia64	00000000	Intel Itanium/Itanium2 processor based workstations
30ibmnws	powerpc	00000000	IBM Network Station Thin Clients
31iyonix	arm	20040713	Castle Technology xscale based workstations
32landisk	sh3el	20060901	SH4 processor based NAS appliances by I-O DATA
33luna68k	m68k	20000105	LUNA product line of OMRON Tateisi Electronics
34mac68k	m68k	19930929	Apple Macintosh
35macppc	powerpc,powerpc64	19980515	Apple Power Macintosh and clones
36mipsco	mipseb	20000812	MIPS Corp Magnum 3000 computers
37mmeye	sh3eb	19990913	Hitachi SuperH(TM) computer controlled camera
38mvme68k	m68k	19950725	Motorola's VMEbus 68K based single board computers
39mvmeppc	powerpc	20020227	Motorola's PowerPC machines running older PPCBUG
40netwinder	arm	20010609	StrongARM based Netwinder machines
41news68k	m68k	19991209	Sony's m68k based NET WORK STATION
42newsmips	mipseb	19980218	Sony's MIPS based NET WORK STATION
43next68k	m68k	19980609	NeXT Computer's cubes and slabs
44ofppc	powerpc,powerpc64	19980528	Open Firmware based PowerPC machines
45playstation2	mipsel	20011016	Sony PlayStation 2
46pmax	mipsel,mips64el	19931012	Digital Equipment Corp. MIPS based machines
47prep	powerpc	20000229	PowerPC Reference Platform machines
48rs6000	powerpc	20071217	MCA-based IBM RS/6000 workstations
49sandpoint	powerpc	20010211	Motorola Sandpoint based NAS systems
50sbmips	mipseb,mipsel,mips64eb,mips64el	20020306	Broadcom's SiByte processor evaluation boards
51sgimips	mipseb,mips64eb	20000614	MIPS based Silicon Graphics machines
52shark	arm	19960131	Digital Network Appliance Reference Design ("Shark")
53sparc	sparc	19931002	Sun Microsystems SPARC (sun4, sun4c, sun4m) 32 bit machines
54sparc64	sparc64/sparc	19980620	Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC 64 bit machines
55sun2	m68000	20010328	Sun m68010 based machines
56sun3	m68k	19930625	Sun m680[23]0 based machines
57vax	vax	19940802	Digital Equipment Corp. VAX machines
58virt68k	m68k	20240101	Qemu m68k virtual machine
59x68k	m68k	19960505	Sharp X68000, X68030
60xen	xen	20040311	Xen virtual machine monitor
61zaurus	arm	20061217	Sharp Zaurus C7x0/860/1000/3x00 PDAs
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63Generic cpu features shared among multiple ports
64aarch64:	ARMv8 CPU based platform files
65arm:		ARM CPU based platform files
66hppa:		Hewlett Packard PA-RISC CPU based platform files
67m68k:		Motorola 680x0 CPU based platform files
68mips:		MIPS CPU based platform files
69powerpc:	PowerPC CPU based platform files
70sh3:		Hitachi SuperH(TM) sh3 and sh4 CPU based platform files
71sparc:		Sun Microsystems SPARC(TM) CPU based platform files
72x86:		Intel x86 based platform files.
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74Generic architectural features shared among multiple ports
75hpc:		Handheld PC reference platform files
76sun68k:		Sun Microsystems Motorola 680x0 CPU based platform files
77
78Single port cpu families
79alpha:		Digital Equipment Alpha processor
80ia64:		Intel Itanium/Itanium2 processor
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