On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/05/2014 06:22 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Right now the number of stages for each endianness is 8: >>>[...] >> >> Do we need r1 and r2 stages? > > Why not? r2 has been around ~10 years. But r1 devices are still present. > >> >>> >>> ==> 16 stages in total. >>> >>> This takes quite a bit of time for all stages to be built (by the time >>> everything is built, we are one month passed the time the snapshot was >>> taken). How about stop building stages for mips1, mips3 and mips4? >> >> How often are you building stages? > Roughly every 3 months.
I wouldn't mind reducing this to every 6 months or so. It was certainly a "when I felt like it" schedule for me. >> Resources aren't a problem but it takes a month to build everything? > Well, my free time is also limited so it's not just the resources that > may or may not cause some problem :) Preparing catalyst and solving > blockers in ~arch takes a considerable amount of my Gentoo time. It was my experience that fixing the ~arch issues was something that you did once for every batch of stages. You just reused the fixed up portage snapshot for everything. It wasn't a trivial effort by any means though. >> Don't you have a 16 or 32-core build system? Cavium gave me ssh access >> to one that I was planning to build stages on, but I never tried. >> >> I guess I don't understand the problem you're facing. >> > > My question (and not a problem) is whether building stages for old ISAs > is desired or not. If it is, then that's fine. If not, then maybe we can > stop building stages or maybe we can build them once a year? Like you > said, with the additions of newer ISAs (like -r3) the total number of > stages will grow even more. I think we are the arch with the most stages > in Gentoo, which is a great thing(!) but maybe we can reconsider our > options, and make room for newer ISAs and variants? Once a year for stages with questionable usefulness seems reasonable to me.
