On 05/06/2014 12:32 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > 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? >
No, I can still do that. -- Regards, Markos Chandras
