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On 05/06/2014 03:07 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On 05/06/2014 01:09 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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>> On 05/05/2014 19:36, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> I cannot speak for anything outside of the standard/original MIPS ISAs, but |
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>>>> I thought we killed off mips1 long ago. When did that come back? Almost |
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>>>> anything out there should be able to handle mips2 at a bare minimum (only |
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>>>> R2000 and R3000-based systems, like certain DECStations, would need mips1). |
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>>>> mips2 is also the branch point for the mips32r* ISAs, so if any of the |
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>>>> original, 32-bit ISAs should be kept, that would be mips2. mips1 can go. |
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>>> We've had this discussion before. If you're going to have >mips2 |
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>>> stages, then there's zero reason to have mips2 stages since mips2 |
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>>> effectively doesn't exist. |
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>> It's been a while, but I thought we only kept a mips2 stage1 around for |
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>> those that wanted a baseline to build their own stage2 or stage3's from. |
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>> You can do this with a mips1 as well, but mips2 is, more or less, the |
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>> baseline from which all other possible ISAs and stages can be built from, as |
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>> long as you don't care about R2k or R3k CPUs. stage3's can be the higher |
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>> mips32r* ISAs. |
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>> I personally don't see a point in having mips1 or mips2 stage3's, only a |
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>> stage1 to use as a bootstrap for new machines or ISAs. |
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> (picking up a random thread) |
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> Ok thanks for the replies. |
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> Ok I think it's safe to proceed with the following: |
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> - Stop mips1 builds (we don't have mips2) |
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> - Reduce the frequency to once-a-year for mips3 and mips4. Updating |
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> these stages every year with catalyst will be a lot of fun ;) |
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> @kumba: You mentioned too many times that I wanted to "drop" support for |
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> mips3 and mips4. I never said that (I am sort-of tired keep repeating |
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> that). All I said (again) was to reduce the frequency or stop building |
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> them at all. Users can still get an existing mips3/mips4 stage3 and |
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> update themselves |
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mipsel3 is used for the lemote. Are you sure we should drop it? |
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