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Finding the CPU Architecture (given a CPU)

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Finding the CPU Architecture (given a CPU)

#1 Post by alirio »

Hello,

I am interested in buying a device with an ARM CPU (namely with the CPU MediaTek P60T).
The description I have concerning the CPU is "MediaTek P60T (8C, 4x A73 @2.0GHz + 4x A53 @2.0GHz)".

I have tried to read and search for a while concerning this CPU, concerning the subject of installing a debian on a Chromebook, and also a little concerning the three ARM architectures available as a Debian installer (arm64, armel and armhf).
I am, most likely, not competent enough to find the information I need.

(The device I am interested in is the Chromebook "Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook-215")
I intend to install Debian in the Chromebook "directly" in the Hard Drive, and not as a kind of Virtual Machine after have Chrome OS running. Ideally I want to set up a dual booting. (but this is a different topic, I believe...)
I am used to run Debian, it is my main OS, but I have only used it on Intel CPUs.

I can not get an understanding for if one of those ARM CPU architectures (available as Debian installers) is the architecture of the CPU I mentioned (MediaTek P60T).

If it is possible to someone to give me a clear short answer, I would really appreciate it, as I have not much time to decide to buy this specific device.

Besides this, I would really like to understand how should I be able to understand the answer for this question I am posting.
Generally, for a given CPU, as it is something I would like to be able to do.

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#2 Post by 4D696B65 »

https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
Debian fully supports three ports to different flavours of little-endian ARM hardware:

The ARM EABI (armel) port targets a range of older 32-bit ARM devices, particularly those used in NAS hardware and a variety of *plug computers.
The newer ARM hard-float (armhf) port supports newer, more powerful 32-bit devices using version 7 of the ARM architecture specification.
The 64-bit ARM (arm64) port supports the latest 64-bit ARM-powered devices.

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Re: Finding the CPU Architecture (given a CPU)

#3 Post by alirio »

Thank you for your answer,
That page is completely related with the subject, but I had not seen it before.

But I am not completely clarified yet,
(maybe only because I am not comfortable with my knowledge concerning this subject)
Now I know that if one of the three Debian installers is for the architecture I am looking for is the arm64, and that this installer is for the 64-bit Armv8 architecture (aarch64), but I can not find any information concerning the architecture of the MediaTek P60T CPU, besides it being ARM and indeed a 64-bit CPU.
I also read that this Debian Port is under development since around 2013, and I have the information that the CPU I mentioned before is from 2018,
Does this mean that the Debian installer arm64 will be able to get me a running Debian on the machine?

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alirio wrote: 2021-11-29 20:18 Now I know that if one of the three Debian installers is for the architecture I am looking for is the arm64, and that this installer is for the 64-bit Armv8 architecture (aarch64), but I can not find any information concerning the architecture of the MediaTek P60T CPU, besides it being ARM and indeed a 64-bit CPU.
Its armv8
https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip ... cortex-a53
alirio wrote: 2021-11-29 20:18 I also read that this Debian Port is under development since around 2013, and I have the information that the CPU I mentioned before is from 2018,
Does this mean that the Debian installer arm64 will be able to get me a running Debian on the machine?
It should.

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