On 05/06/2014 03:07 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
On 05/06/2014 01:09 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
On 05/05/2014 19:36, Matt Turner wrote:
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.
It's been a while, but I thought we only kept a mips2 stage1 around for
those that wanted a baseline to build their own stage2 or stage3's from.
You can do this with a mips1 as well, but mips2 is, more or less, the
baseline from which all other possible ISAs and stages can be built from, as
long as you don't care about R2k or R3k CPUs. stage3's can be the higher
mips32r* ISAs.
I personally don't see a point in having mips1 or mips2 stage3's, only a
stage1 to use as a bootstrap for new machines or ISAs.
(picking up a random thread)
Ok thanks for the replies.
Ok I think it's safe to proceed with the following:
- Stop mips1 builds (we don't have mips2)
- Reduce the frequency to once-a-year for mips3 and mips4. Updating
these stages every year with catalyst will be a lot of fun ;)
@kumba: You mentioned too many times that I wanted to "drop" support for
mips3 and mips4. I never said that (I am sort-of tired keep repeating
that). All I said (again) was to reduce the frequency or stop building
them at all. Users can still get an existing mips3/mips4 stage3 and
update themselves
mipsel3 is used for the lemote. Are you sure we should drop it?
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