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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	Comments
amd64/ia32	AMD Phenom Triple, ​ASUSTeK M3N WS, 2GiB RAM	MD	working	mainline (r996)	#248, (2)
amd64/ia32	​Apple Mac Pro 4.1 (Early 2009), 3GiB RAM	MD	partially working	mainline (r992)	#248, (4)
amd64/ia32	Intel Core 2 Quad (2x), ​Intel S5000XVNSATAR, 4GiB RAM	MD	working	mainline (r992)
arm32	​Neo FreeRunner, 128MiB RAM	JS, JJ, VP	working	mainline	HelenOS on Neo FreeRunner
arm32	​HP iPAQ H5500	MD		unsupported
ia32	​ThinkPad T60, 1GiB RAM	MD	working	mainline (r992)
ia32	Intel Pentium 4 (HT), 1GiB RAM	JJ	unknown	0.2.0
ia32	Intel Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200, Fujitsu Esprimo P2540, 3GiB RAM	JJ	working	mainline	(2)
ia32	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, 8GiB RAM	JJ	partially working	mainline
ia64	​Dell PowerEdge 3250, 4GiB RAM	JJ, JV	partially working	0.4.0	(4), Service Tag: CMN8W31, lshw -numeric
ia64	​Dell PowerEdge 7150, 4GiB RAM	MD	working	mainline (r1000)
mips32	​Ben NanoNote, 16MiB RAM	MD		unsupported
mips64	​Sgi Octane (IP30), 256MiB RAM	MD		unsupported
mips64	​Lemote Fuloong, 256MiB RAM	MD		unsupported
ppc32	​Apple iBook G4 (Mid 2005), 1GiB RAM	JJ	unknown	0.4.1	Seems to be dead
ppc32	​Apple iMac G4 (Flat Panel), 384MiB RAM	MD	working	mainline (r992)	(4)
ppc64	​Apple iMac G5 (Ambient Light Sensor), 768MiB RAM	MD		unsupported
sparc32	LEON3 on Hpe-mini LEC2 FPGA board, 256MiB RAM	MD		unsupported
sparc64	​Sun Ultra 60, 256MiB RAM	MD	working	mainline (r996)
sparc64	​Sun Ultra 5, 128MiB RAM	JJ	working	mainline (r1046)
sparc64	​Sun Ultra 60, 2048MiB RAM	JJ	partially working	mainline (r1046)	(5) (6), #4
sparc64	​Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000, 4GiB RAM	MD	not working	0.4.2	#324, prtconf -pv

Comments

2. Too slow clock in absence of any load. When multiple tester loop1 instances ran, clock seemed to be OK.

4. Boots OK, but unusable due to USB-only HID.
5. Loader detected only 1024MiB of memory when in reality the system has 2048MiB
6. When the system has two graphic cards, the last message printed by loader is Setting up screens…; if only one graphic card is present, the system boot fine

Legend of the Working release field

• mainline (revision) = 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. The latest mainline Bazaar revision should be appended in the brackets.
• 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).
• 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.

Legend of the Current status field

• working () = Almost all features of the indicated release are supported on the machine.
• partially working () = The indicated release is more-or-less supported on the machine, but with some glitches or limitations indicated.
• unknown () = The machine was working in the release indicated, but it has not been tested for a while.
• not working () = Although the machine should be supported, it has some major problems.
• empty status () = Unsupported machine.