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This commit adds minimal documentation of the supported platforms. More exhaustive documentation would require producing a list of platforms for each of the 7 tiers. This was attempted in #245368, but it quickly became clear that that would be a long-term effort. In the meantime, this commit adds the most important information to the manual. Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
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# Platform Support {#chap-platform-support}
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Packages receive varying degrees of support, both in terms of maintainer attention and available computation resources for continuous integration (CI).
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Below is the list of the best supported platforms:
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- `x86_64-linux`: Highest level of support.
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- `aarch64-linux`: Well supported, with most packages building successfully in CI.
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- `aarch64-darwin`: Receives better support than `x86_64-darwin`.
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- `x86_64-darwin`: Receives some support.
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There are many other platforms with varying levels of support.
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The provisional platform list in [Appendix A] of [RFC046], while not up to date, can be used as guidance.
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A more formal definition of the platform support tiers is provided in [RFC046], but has not been fully implemented yet.
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[RFC046]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0046-platform-support-tiers.md
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[Appendix A]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0046-platform-support-tiers.md#appendix-a-non-normative-description-of-platforms-in-november-2019
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