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The amd64 architecture is intended for use on AMD 64-bit CPUs as well as 64-bit Intel Pentium/Core/Xeon processors.

The disk images are full bootable Gentoo installations in qemu's QCOW2 disk format. They require UEFI support for booting. One variant comes with no network services and a password-less root account, the other with access locked by default but cloud-init running on boot.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

For details of the arm architecture, please see the corresponding wikipedia page. Note that in Gentoo arm refers to 32bit variants; the 64bit variants can be found as arm64.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

For details of the mips architecture, please see the corresponding wikipedia page.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

PowerPC CPUs can operate in two modes: big-endian and little-endian.

• The ppc and ppc64 stages are big-endian stages and can be used with any PowerPC CPU, including some old Apple™ hardware.
• The ppc64le stages are little-endian stages and are created for running on POWER8 and newer CPUs.
• The power9le stages are little-endian stages optimized exclusively for POWER9 CPUs.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

The lp64d stages can be used on all 64-bit RISC-V processors supporting the double-precision floating point instruction set. The lp64 stages can be used on all 64-bit RISC-V processors; they require no hardware support for floating point arithmetics. Multilib stages include toolchain support for all 64-bit and 32-bit ABI and are based on lp64d. They are mostly useful for development and testing purposes.
The ilp32d stages can be used on all 32-bit RISC-V processors supporting the double-precision floating point instruction set. The ilp32 stages can be used on all 32-bit RISC-V processors; they require no hardware support for floating point arithmetics.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.

There are two builds of the x86 architecture: i486 and i686.
Processors prior to the Intel Pentium Pro or Pentium II require the i486 variant to be used.

For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems please see the Musl usage guide.