Debian Adds Support For LoongArch CPUs

Published on August 25, 2023

Recently, the Debian team has announced that it will include the LoongArch architecture in a new Debian port. In addition to porting the operating system to LoongArch, RISC-V processors were also recently added to the official support architecture in an attempt to make the operating system compatible with a wider range of platforms. It was announced that after "enough packages have been built for the port to be self-hosting", the team will plan to "replace these two builds with real hardware hosted at Loongson".

Sources:

https://lwn.net/Articles/941743/

https://lwn.net/ml/debian-devel-announce/c32d3af9f9ebc362431e2f208f75b52ba64779c0.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

https://www.debian.org/