Well it works, but there is a snag. It seems the fan runs full speed the whole time, and it _does not_ sound good.
Aside from that, it ships with Loongnix, a dedicated Linux distro running KDE 5. I can't seem to access the pkg servers, so haven't been able to add fastfetch or anything like that.
Seems to pull a bit under 30W when idle.
Weird new computer arrived. While it looks like a regular mini-PC it has a Loongson 3A6000 CPU with 4 cores, 8 threads and a MIPS derived instruction set architecture (ISA). The aim is to install Chimera Linux on it, and have it be a test bed for building packages, and testing software compatibility. Depending on power consumption I might give it some server duties too.
Bumped into a weird bug today.
`base64 -d something | dd bs=32 skip=96 count=1 2>/dev/null` does not always return the same data on loongarch64.
Apparently busybox dd does not guarantee that the full block is read unless `iflag=fullblock` is specified, which sort of makes sense.
Would probably not have detected this without access to real hardware.
Shows value of running CI on unusual architectures.
but need core-updates and set default gcc to 12.
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