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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:46:22AM +0800, Paul Ambrose wrote:
> I received my Loongson 3A
> box(http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/fulong/348.html) 9 days
> ago. It has Loongson 3A processor, 4 cores at 900Mhz( 64KB L1D + 64KB
> L1I per-core and 4MB L2 cache shared?? , MIPS64r2 with GS64 SIMD
> extension and pre-installed with a RHEL6-derived distribution.  The
> hardware configuration is here:

Nice, this is the first I have heard that the 3A is actually in anyone's hands.

> I did some test and some research, it seems stable, so I want to port
> FreeBSD to this box.

I have not seen that FreeBSD supports Loongson generally. Are you
talking about a one-off for the 3A or are you talking about a port to
all Loongson-based hardware? 

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