I am going to regret saying this but I am pretty fluent in MIPS if you need a 
reviewer.

We should definitely integrate this into the repository. There are quite a few 
MIPS simulators out there so I am not sure we have to invent a new one.

Andreas

On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Nicolas B. Pierron <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I met a person, Petar Jovanovic, from Imgtec. With his team, they are looking 
> into adding a MIPS backend to mozilla-central, they currently forked the 
> github clone of mozilla-central (gecko-dev) and implemented the MIPS backend 
> on top of that.
> 
> Their goal is to provide a working version of Gecko/B2G running on MIPS.  To 
> do so they would prefer to merge their changes into mozilla-central, instead 
> of maintaining their changes on top of the git clone.
> 
> I am willing to accept their contributions into the engine, within the 
> following conditions:
> - We have one person to review the integration part.
> - We have one person to review the MIPS assembly part.
> 
> As they are looking at making a working mobile device, I recommended that 
> they also add a MIPS Simulator (which would be added to v8 soon).  The MIPS 
> Simulator will serve 2 purposes:
> - Check the MIPS backend on Try.
> - Make MIPS testing easier for other devs.
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas B. Pierron
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