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This page lists the hardware which is available for testing HelenOS and is within the reach of some HelenOS developer.

Per processor architecture

Architecture	Product name	HelenOS contact	Current status	Working release	Pointer to documentation	Comments
amd64/ia32	Acer Ferrari 3400	JJ	working	0.4.2	​Ferrari 3400 Series Specifications	no longer available
amd64/ia32	AMD Phenom Triple	MD	working	mainline	​ASUSTeK M3N WS	Wrong number of CPUs detected, issues related to #248 (a keypress is needed), timer running too slow
amd64/ia32	Apple Mac Pro	MD	partially working	mainline	​Mac Pro (Early 2009) - Technical Specifications	Wrong number of CPUs detected, bootstrap locks up due to #248
amd64/ia32	Intel Core 2 Quad (dual)	MD	working	mainline	​Intel S5000XVNSATAR
arm32	Neo FreeRunner	JS, JJ, VP	working	mainline	HelenOS + FreeRunner dev. information
ia32	IBM ThinkPad T60	MD	working	mainline	​Technical Specifications
ia32	Intel Pentium 4 (HT)	JJ	unknown	0.2.0
ia32	Fujitsu Esprimo P2540 (Intel Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200)	JJ	working	mainline		Too slow clock in absence of any load. When multiple tester loop1 instances ran, clock seemed to be ok.
ia32	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor	JJ	partially working	mainline
ia64	Dell PowerEdge 3250	JJ, JV	partially working	0.4.0	​Manuals	Service Tag: CMN8W31 Reaches bdsh when image.boot loaded by elilo, by chance.
ia64	Dell PowerEdge 7150	MD	not working	unsupported	​Manuals
mips32	Ben NanoNote	MD	not working	unsupported	​Documentation	initial porting efforts
mips64	Sgi Octane (IP30)	MD	not working	unsupported	​Wikipedia
mips64	Lemote Fuloong	MD	wip	unsupported	​Fuloong Mini-PC
ppc32	Apple iBook G4	JJ	working	0.4.1	​iBook G4 (Mid 2005) - Technical Specifications	The notebook seems to be dead.
ppc32	Apple iMac G4	MD	not working	0.4.1	​iMac G4 (Flat Panel) - Technical Specifications	Booted OK, but unusable due to USB-only HID
ppc64	Apple iMac G5	MD	not working	unsupported	​iMac G5 (Ambient Light Sensor) - Technical Specifications
sparc32	LEON3 (on FPGA)	MD	not working	unsupported
sparc64	Sun Ultra 60	MD	working	mainline	​Sun Ultra 60 Workstation Documentation
sparc64	Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000	MD	working	mainline	​Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Documentation	prtconf -pv

Legend of the Working release field

• mainline = HelenOS is being regularly tested on the given machine as part of the current development efforts, thus the machine should be supported in the next stable release.
• none = HelenOS was never actually tested on the given machine, but it is reasonable to believe that the probability of HelenOS working flawlessly on the machine is high (due to similarity to other supported machines).
• unsupported = The given machine is currently unsupported because of some fundamental reason (i.e. the hardware architecture is out of the scope of the current HelenOS development efforts).
• any specific version = HelenOS did support the given machine in the past, but the support has been since broken, usually due to some fundamental changes which were not debugged on the given machine so far.