Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access

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If these CPU are still manufactured thus the same manufacturers should the ones interested in having solid linux support to begin with, and providing a couple of machines to the Debian project, supporting Debian means that also Ubuntu will be benefit.

New MIPS products have been limited to embedded for a number of years... IP cameras are a good example, you can go to Amazon right now and get a (fairly competent actually) home security camera for about $25, and it will have a MIPS SoC from around 2013 in it, likely from Ingenic.

Ingenic maintains their own linux+buildroot based SDK, which is far outdated (kernel 3.x), they simply don't need to support anything newer. I'm not aware of any other c hip supplier who is still producing MIPS processors that are available commercially. They even have relatively recent newer chips and SDKs including kernel 4.4.94...

But these are small, low resource chips made for specific applications.

[Estranged1906]

MIPS has been superseded by LoongArch basically.

[NovenTheHero]

MIPS has been superseded by LoongArch basically.

Which you also cannot really get, at least in the Western markets.