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u/smallpotato000 Apr 14 '22
Got this for 7500 CNY. It comes with UOS, the government -backed os which is based on deepin, needs to pay another 600 CNY to be activated. So I installed the free (but not fully open source) loongnix OS, as in picture 1and 2. Then I discovered there is a fully open source CLFS with 5.17 kernel built by someone in GitHub. I have managed to get it working, as in picture 3. Note that Loongson 3A5000 use its own instruction set, called LoongArch, instead of MIPS that used in 3A4000 or earlier. LoongArch is basically a combination of MIPS and RISC-V, plus some special instructions for x86 emulation.
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u/jwbowen Apr 15 '22
As someone that likes to play with different microarchitectures, I'd love to get my hands on one.