On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Kinard <[email protected]> wrote: > I cannot speak for anything outside of the standard/original MIPS ISAs, but > I thought we killed off mips1 long ago. When did that come back? Almost > anything out there should be able to handle mips2 at a bare minimum (only > R2000 and R3000-based systems, like certain DECStations, would need mips1). > mips2 is also the branch point for the mips32r* ISAs, so if any of the > original, 32-bit ISAs should be kept, that would be mips2. mips1 can go.
We've had this discussion before. If you're going to have >mips2 stages, then there's zero reason to have mips2 stages since mips2 effectively doesn't exist. mips1 is a significantly smaller build than other stages, since there's only one ABI. It's really not much time, relatively speaking.
