in other news, #alpinelinux edge now has a full build for #loongarch for both main and community that was rebootstrapped by the alpine team, thus removing any need to trust loongson's package signing key.
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gaytaloggerreplied to Ariadne Conill π°:therian: last edited by
@ariadne i am sure the one user of it will be thrilled to know. are you thrilled?
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Ariadne Conill π°:therian:replied to gaytalogger last edited by
@dysfun more than one, actually. loongarch does what riscv don't
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gaytaloggerreplied to Ariadne Conill π°:therian: last edited by
@ariadne what, usefully exist?
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Ariadne Conill π°:therian:replied to gaytalogger last edited by
@dysfun exactly. you can actually get hardware that is performance competitive. the milk-v pioneer builders alpine has have 64 risc-v cores and the 16-core loongarch machine is still several orders of magnitude faster on package builds.
(both are slower than ARM, x86, power and s390 builders but...)
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ThomSPARC IIIireplied to Ariadne Conill π°:therian: last edited by
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Ariadne Conill π°:therian:replied to ThomSPARC IIIi last edited by
@thomholwerda @dysfun the builder is a 3c5000 SoC, they are around $4000 US on aliexpress. you can get 3a6000 SoC desktop boards for about $300 on aliexpress.
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jsreplied to Ariadne Conill π°:therian: last edited by
@ariadne Also, rebootstrapped how? Cross-compiling it and then putting that cross-compiled output onto the build machines? But the build machines are still owned by Loongson, arenβt they?
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Ariadne Conill π°:therian:replied to js last edited by
@js yeah, we redid the bootstrap. build machines are owned by Alpine.
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jsreplied to Ariadne Conill π°:therian: last edited by
@ariadne Oh nice! I thought initially they were owned by Loongson.
Well, congrats then, this means Alpine is the first distro to have trustworthy binaries for LoongArch! Thatβs quite the achievement!
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Ariadne Conill π°:therian:replied to js last edited by
@js the TSC would never accept signing keys on machines controlled by a non-alpine entity, much less a state-sponsored one
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gaytaloggerreplied to Ariadne Conill π°:therian: last edited by
@ariadne @thomholwerda $4k? fucking hell. i paid a *lot* less than that for my machine which wipes the floor with it.