Hi, > 2026年2月7日 17:17，Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> 写道： > > Shengqi Chen <[email protected]> writes: > >> I'd like to annouce Loong13, an unofficial Debian Trixie port for >> LoongArch64, built entirely from source without binary blobs. > > Yay! > > Is anything from non-free-firmware included in the installer ISOs?
Yes, the installer ISOs includes firmwares from non-free-firmware except mini.iso, just like the ISOs for the official Debian release for other architectures. > What hardware are used to build things? Are those machines able to run > Loong13 without any binary blobs? The packages were built on a 32 core single socket 3C6000 server. The machine is currently running Debian sid from ports since the system was installed before Loong13 was built. No extra binary blobs are needed to run the system, except the UEFI firmware. The driver for the embedded NICs on the motherboard is currently not in the mainline kernel tree and requires an out-of-tree dkms module. > I've only seen 3A6000 boards around, but they are fairly low > performance, and the more performant 3B6000 doesn't seem commercial > available for Europe shipping. If anyone knows of a way to source these > machines, let me know. The single-core performance of 3A6000 is much higher than 3C5000 and is a little lower than Intel CPUs. The performance should be fit for daily normal use. The single-core performance of 3C6000 should be similar to 3A6000, but with more cores. It seems that there are some dealers on AliExpress for the boards. Cheers, Miao Wang
