## <a id="compat"></a>It Only Supports Intel and ARM

MikroTik has shipped an awful lot of MIPS-based product over the years, and it continues to do so, most recently as of this writing in their [CRS518-16XS-2XQ-RM](https://mikrotik.com/product/crs518_16xs_2xq). Atop that, there are other CPU architectures in the historical mix like PowerPC and TILE. MikroTik doesn’t ship a `container.npk` for any of these platforms.

But why not?

The simple reason is, the major container build toolchains — mainly `docker buildx` and its clones — don’t target these other CPU types, a fact you can verify for yourself by running…
The simple reason is, the major OCI image build toolchains — mainly `docker buildx` and its clones — don’t target these other CPU types, a fact you can verify for yourself by running…

    $ docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt

“But **a-hah**,” you cry! “There's MIPS *and* PPC in that list!” You then demand, “Where’s my build of `container.npk` for them, then?”

Did you overlook the “64” in those outputs? These are for modern 64-bit versions of these CPUs, but MikroTik never shipped any 64-bit MIPS or PowerPC CPUs, not even the 100G behemoth linked above, which gets by with a 32-bit MIPSBE based CPU because it is designed as a switch, not a router, offloading nearly all traffic to the switch ASIC.