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