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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Loongson Adds LoongArch Support To LibreOffice [phoronix.com]

Following GCC 12 introducing LoongArch support [phoronix.com] earlier this year, Linux 5.19 adding the initial LoongArch port [phoronix.com], and Glibc 2.36 adding LoongArch [phoronix.com], LibreOffice is now the latest high-profile open-source project adding support for this Chinese processor ISA that started out derived from MIPS64.

Loongson as the company behind LoongArch [phoronix.com] contributed the native support for running the LibreOffice open-source office suite on LoongArch 64-bit hardware.

Related: Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K [soylentnews.org]

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