Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel

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Phoronix: Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel

Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ingenic-X1000-Linux-5.6

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MIPS are the losers who lost their workstation to POWER, SPARC and Xeon, and the losers who lost their embedded to ARM, they should have opened their architecture a decade or two ago, but then in a panic last bid to stay relevant they opened their architecture in fear of going total obsolete with the arrival of RISC-V.

These guys could have been pioneers, they could have opened their architecture a decade or two ago, things could be so different for them, they could be in a so much better standing.