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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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mips1 is a significantly smaller build than other stages, since |
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there's only one ABI. It's really not much time, relatively speaking. |
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