1) http://www.loongson.cn/news_info.php?id=259
Recently, ICT has launched the Loongson-3B six-core desktop solution.
Loongson-3B is a six-core high-performance general-purpose MIPS processor
using 32nm manufacturing process, which is working at frequency of 1.2 GHz.
I doubt it. AMD's pulled the wool over our eyes in an effort to pacify the
larger community and doesn't appear to really care about free software. Then
again, does any company? That is not to say that there aren't people within
who care and/or business models built around free software. What
I don't expect any improvement here: it still needs Radeon blobs (VGA ROM and
microcode), the devices available in Europe will be expensive, code needed
for them while released won't be contributed upstream, there will be no
English documentation, so no one will have a Loongson 3B device nor
I guess if you don't care about 3D acceleration, it would be fine. I don't
think AMD will release the source code for the blobs. The Nvidia incident was
because of the proprietary driver, not microcode. Is there anyone reverse
engineering the microcode?
Nouveau has replaced most NVIDIA microcode needed for 3d acceleration.
Freedreno reverse engineers the Adreno microcode that is very similar to
Radeon R600. I don't know any projects working on other Radeon microcode
(like R700 which has much different patterns than R600). It might be
