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Has the FSF or any adjacent organizations or companies tried to bankroll some hardware again? It mostly seems like some amount was thrown at the Lemote Yeeloong MIPS laptops, but also that they were only publicly sold for one or two years in 2011. Same thing with semi-endorsing the BeagleBone Black, but the SBC space has developed further since 2013 for better and worse. Imagine a RISC-V board flashed with Libre/Coreboot or OpenFirmware, that starts up an install of Guix or Trisquel. Or (switching from personal computers,) even that a "dumb" monochromatic laser printer that doesn't require deblobbing the firmware like Pine64's soldering iron.

>>27066
longsoon or something like that. you have to look at china for this stuff, many manufacturers don't even have wikipedia entries

the sun of libre computation rises in the East

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>>27067
>Loongson
That's what the Lemote MIPS chip was designed by, yes. For better or worse, it seems like Loongson continued on by separating away from MIPS and spinning off into their own 'LoongArch' thing. I know a non-mainland chinese poster that gets huffy because RISC-V "stole" from MIPS, even though most of the RISC architectures are connected. Also that the MIPS architecture technically still exists as being stewarded by Ingenic and/or Imagination. Pic related.

Allegedly one can still buy a Loongson computer and/or an Ingenic SBC, but you have to directly contact the company themselves as it seems to have been relegated to state contractor purgatory in the same way that half the Chinese-developed Linux distros and limited run RISC-V SBCs and Jolla (for Finland or Russia, don't know specifics) are also in.

There's also the EOMA68's successor in libreSOC, but that seems to have fallen into a mess of nerd sniping from switching architectures, designing an open hardware GPU, turning that into an experimental vector processor, and switching the description language, and attempting to get volunteer work from college students.

>>27071
no, I'm pretty sure they sell consumer products that you can buy that use their latest risc-v/loongarch machines. and they are not the only ones


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