by andrewflnr
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- > Loongson Corporation has yet to release the remaining volumes of the LoongArch manual
Why? The first thing people will want to do on a new weird computer is run Linux on it. How can the manufacturer possibly benefit from not releasing the manual? Are they still writing/editing it?
by internet2000
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- The LoongArch initiative made sense before Risc-V, when RMS was using it, etc. Now it makes more sense to put more wood behind one arrow.
- Related:
Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture (113 points, 3 days ago, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334333
Loongson 3A6000: A Star Among Chinese CPUs (98 points, 2024, 135 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726124
- Can regular people or companies buy a loongson system somewhere without going through shady hoops or is this fanfare essentially self-celebration?
by galleywest200
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- NetBSD appears to support Loongson but is not listed on this website: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbmips/ (Loongson MIPS64 based devices)
by spiritplumber
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- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ub5x-4KC03s I wish I could just beloong
- First time I heard about this, for those like me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
TLDR: it's a MIPS-compatible CPU architecture
- Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
- I mean isn't this equivalent to "are we MIPS yet?"? I don't know the technicalities, but aren't they suspiciously close aren't they? ...and MIPS has been supported for a loong time already.
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