Debian Adds Support for Loongarch Architecture

Developers of the Debian project have recently announced the implementation of the port “loong64” for systems based on the architecture of the Loongson 3 5000 processors. This port will be utilizing the RISC ISA, which is similar to MIPS and RISC-V.

The implementation of support for the new port has been added to the assembly infrastructure and the official Debian archive. Currently, at this stage of integration, a package base called Loongarch is available in Debian-ports. This package base consists of approximately 200 packages, which will gradually expand over time.

For more information on the announcement, you can refer to the official Debian mailing list here. Additionally, the official archive for the loong64 port can be accessed at this link.

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