Debian GNU/Linux 13 supports 9 major architectures and several variations of each architecture known as ”flavors”.

This document covers installation for the PA-RISC architecture using the Linux kernel. If you are looking for information on any of the other Debian-supported architectures take a look at the Debian-Ports pages.

Multiprocessor support — also called ”symmetric multiprocessing” or SMP — is available for this architecture. However, the standard Debian 13 kernel image does not support SMP. This should not prevent installation, since the standard, non-SMP kernel should boot on SMP systems; the kernel will simply use only the first CPU.

Useammasta suorittimesta saadaan hyötyä vasta korvaamalla Debianin vakioydin. Jutustelua siitä miten tämä tehdään löytyy kohdasta Kohta 8.5, ”Uuden ytimen kääntäminen”. Tällä hetkellä (ytimen versio 3.16) SMP otetaan käyttöön valinnalla ”Symmetric multi-processing support” ytimen asetusten osassa ”Processor type and features”.

Debian's support for graphical interfaces is determined by the underlying support found in X.Org's X11 system, and the kernel. Basic framebuffer graphics is provided by the kernel, whilst desktop environments use X11. Whether advanced graphics card features such as 3D-hardware acceleration or hardware-accelerated video are available, depends on the actual graphics hardware used in the system and in some cases on the installation of additional ”firmware” blobs (see Kohta 2.2, ”Laiteohjelmistoa tarvitsevat laitteet”).

Details on supported graphics hardware and pointing devices can be found at https://wiki.freedesktop.org/xorg/. Debian 13 ships with X.Org version 7.7.

Almost any network interface card (NIC) supported by the Linux kernel should also be supported by the installation system; drivers should normally be loaded automatically.

Linux supports a large variety of hardware devices such as mice, printers, scanners, PCMCIA/CardBus/ExpressCard and USB devices. However, most of these devices are not required while installing the system.