I haven’t looked at the instruction set, but I’ve heard it described as being closer to risc-v. Targeting linux (and probably bsd’s) is a big w, esp for openkylin adoption in the mainland and displacing the m$ monopoly. I’d really like to get my hands on one of these 6k series soon.
Keep in mind gcc even supports the still undocumented instructions (at least in the english world) such as the vector instructions for 128 and 256-bit vector registers. That’s probably because people at Loongson were responsible for the implementation. They also maintain their own soft-forked Linux kernel and their patches eventually make it into mainline. Their soft-fork is more bleeding edge though I guess.
I haven’t looked at the instruction set, but I’ve heard it described as being closer to risc-v. Targeting linux (and probably bsd’s) is a big w, esp for openkylin adoption in the mainland and displacing the m$ monopoly. I’d really like to get my hands on one of these 6k series soon.
I read that it was derived from MIPS originally, but it’s been heavily modified since. I’m very excited about China doubling down on Linux finally.
Me too. GNU + Chinese characteristics lets goooo
They have published documentation of the ISA in english though it’s not complete: https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/README-EN.html
gcc and qemu already support la64 so cross compiling and basic testing is already possible for anyone.
damn, that’s so cool
Keep in mind gcc even supports the still undocumented instructions (at least in the english world) such as the vector instructions for 128 and 256-bit vector registers. That’s probably because people at Loongson were responsible for the implementation. They also maintain their own soft-forked Linux kernel and their patches eventually make it into mainline. Their soft-fork is more bleeding edge though I guess.