That's not an insurmountable problem with a billion people as captive audience. At first glance the ISA is nothing special and that's a good thing. It's a run o

That's not an insurmountable problem with a billion people as captive audience. At first glance the ISA is nothing special and that's a good thing. It's a run of the mill 64 bit RISC ISA with little endian byte order and no unusual alignment or store order constraints to watch out for. If something compiles for x86-64, ARM64, RV64GC, etc. it should compile for that LoongArch if there is a compiler (backend) for it. If the MMU stayed as similar to MIPS64 as their earlier chips it shouldn't be too much work to write and maintain a Linux (or *BSD port to it). The custom ISA becomes a real problem if you need Windows and other closed source software on it, but China has declared it political goal to rid itself its dependency on Microsoft.