Portal:LoongArch/Intro

LoongArch is a new 64-bit architecture developed by the Chinese company Loongson Technology. It is based on the MIPS architecture with some modifications and extensions reminiscent to the RISC-V architecture.

The CPU are used in both desktop and laptops and server machines as well as embedded applications.

The architecture is supported by the Linux kernel since version 5.19 and in QEMU since version 7.1. The architecture is supported by all relevant upstream projects such as LLVM, Rust, OpenJDK, GCC, Go, GRUB, NodeJS and many more.

The mature upstream support as well as existing, but unsuppported distribution support in both Debian as well as Fedora and Gentoo.

The platform is therefore a potential candidate for a new openSUSE port.