Loonies for Loongsons

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• Fwirt 4 days ago
  Quick plug for this guy who built a LoongArch emulator for use as a... scripting engine?

  https://github.com/libriscv/libloong

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  • gnabgib 4 days ago
    There was a flurry of LoongArch at the time, some discussion on that post (43 points, 3 months ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375067

    Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture (162 points, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334333

    Loongarch Improvements with Box64 (66 points, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514807

    Box64 Expands into RISC-V and LoongArch territory (45 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751460
• rigonkulous 19 hours ago
  I worked with a kernel dev at an industrial embedded company who absolutely loved longsoon and insisted we add it to our platform stack - he did get some traction on the idea, I have to admit (the lab was keen on multi-architecture build budgets..) - but .. the machines just didn't show up. ARM ate everyones lunch.

  I know he, personally, flew to China and returned with a Longsoon laptop, but .. we can't all fly to China.

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  • LeFantome 6 hours ago
    Why did he prefer it to RISC-V? Just more mature or some architectural advantage?