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On 15:06 Mon 05 May , Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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Hi, |
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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? We |
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> keep the existing stages on the mirrors but we will no longer update |
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> them (or maybe we do on per user or per case basis). I understand there |
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> is hardware for these ISAs but how often do people actually use the new |
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> stages? |
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> Just to be clear, I am not suggesting for the team to stop supporting |
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> these ISAs but to stop building new stages and let the users of such |
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> ISAs, grab an old stage3 and do the update themselves if needed. |
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> This will free up some hardware resources for building different stages |
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> for the newer ISAs (maybe more non-multilib n32 and n64 variants etc) |
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> What does everyone think? |
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I agree. If we don't have the resources to build everything for everyone, lets |
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just build what is mainstream at the moment. I don't know catalyst's internals |
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or how painful it would be to update the whole set once per year or a bit longer, but it could |
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be nice, because I'm not sure how possible would be to update a stage3 after > |
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1-2 years. |
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But again, because I'm not in the MIPS industry, so can't say whether people are really |
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using the older ISAs stages, if you suspect nobody is using them just do as you |
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say and stop updating them, and we build any upon request. |
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Panagiotis |
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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) |
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