You can, with properly written drivers and an open OS. GNU/Linux obviously is amd64 centric. There's still a tremendous amount of dismissiveness towards anythi

You can, with properly written drivers and an open OS. GNU/Linux obviously is amd64 centric. There's still a tremendous amount of dismissiveness towards anything that's not amd64 (we're even seeing it towards 32 bit x86). So if something doesn't work properly on a non-amd64 system, it's usually not considered a high priority. The BSDs are much better about this. If something doesn't work, that means it's broken even if it works where 98% of people use it, so it gets fixed. I can, and have, plugged LSI and other RAID cards in to several different non-x86, non-amd64 systems and had them work exactly as expected.