Newer Loongson 3A Variant Being Supported By Linux 5.5 Along With The SGI Octane

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Newer Loongson 3A Variant Being Supported By Linux 5.5 Along With The SGI Octane

27 November 2019, 02:00 AM

Phoronix: Newer Loongson 3A Variant Being Supported By Linux 5.5 Along With The SGI Octane

As covered earlier this month, the next version of the Linux kernel is finally offering mainline support for SGI's Octane / Octane II MIPS workstations from the SGI IRIX days about two decades ago. Not only is the vintage SGI IP30 hardware seeing mainline kernel support, but there is other new MIPS hardware support too...

Newer Loongson 3A Variant Being Supported By Linux 5.5 Along With The SGI Octane - Phoronix

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02 December 2019, 04:35 AM

There will be an official release of loongson 3A4000/3B4000 in 24 Dec
I have seen an engineering sample of loongson 3A4000 running at 1.7GHz while the power supply is simply a portable power bank.
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