Comment by cl91
2 years ago
> not return the favor by releasing their source
That's not quite true and your bias is showing. The company behind Loongarch is reasonably friendly to FOSS and most of their LA64 changes (to Linux, llvm, binutils, gcc, etc) are upstreamed in a timely fashion. As for the chipset, kernel drivers are all open source although not all have been accepted upstream. I have personally been maintaining the out-of-tree Linux drm driver for their onboard gpu chip and it's available on github https://github.com/cl91/linux/tree/gsgpu-devel. If you have a barebone 3A6000+7A2000 setup, as far as I know the only closed source component needed is their userspace mesa driver for the onboard gpu.
+1 while I don't have any idea this deep in hardware engineering, in normal appdev Chinese open source contributions are well known and there's a whole class of up and coming apps which are great, just not internationalized well enough for others to use yet