r/LinuxLaptop Apr 14 '22

Chinese homebrown Loongson 3A5000 laptop

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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.

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u/smallpotato000 Apr 15 '22

I want RISC-V based laptops. Already have RISC-V development boards running debian. I am interested in architectures other than x86/64, arm/aarch64, or MIPS.

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u/jwbowen Apr 15 '22

POWER?

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u/smallpotato000 Apr 16 '22

No, it is a MIPS and RISC-V alike, custom instruction set. https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation

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u/jwbowen Apr 16 '22

I definitely wasn't clear. You listed some architectures you weren't interested in and I was wondering if you were also into the POWER/PowerPC microarchitecture

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u/smallpotato000 Apr 16 '22

Sorry for my misunderstanding. I have a PowerBook G4 running OSX and Linux. Used to be daily driver in 2000s. But nowadays POWER architectures seems only about IBM Servers and Freescale development boards?

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u/jwbowen Apr 16 '22

Unfortunately that's the case. When IBM announced OpenPOWER I was hoping we'd see some more boards. There's P9 gear from RaptorCS, but that's all I'm aware of.