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On 05/05/2014 06:13 PM, Justin Cormack wrote: |
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> On May 5, 2014 3:07 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoarang@g.o> |
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> 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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>> - mips1 - mips32 - mips32r2 - mips3 - mips4 - mips4_r10 - mips64 |
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>> - mips64r2 |
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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 |
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>> time |
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> everything is built, we are one month passed the time the snapshot |
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> was taken). How about stop building stages for mips1, mips3 and |
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> mips4? We keep the existing stages on the mirrors but we will no |
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> longer update them (or maybe we do on per user or per case basis). |
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> I understand there is hardware for these ISAs but how often do |
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> people actually use the new stages? |
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>> Just to be clear, I am not suggesting for the team to stop |
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>> supporting |
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> these ISAs but to stop building new stages and let the users of |
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> such ISAs, grab an old stage3 and do the update themselves if |
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> needed. |
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>> This will free up some hardware resources for building different |
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>> stages |
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> for the newer ISAs (maybe more non-multilib n32 and n64 variants |
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> etc) |
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>> What does everyone think? |
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> Agree in general but not quite sure about the choice. Mips3 |
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> (fuloong) is still quite widely used I think. Mips32 might not be |
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> though, Android seems to be mips32r2 |
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> Has anyone asked Imagination for resources to support this? |
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I work for Imagination :) and resources is not huge problem. Like I |
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said, I am happy to do it provided there is good reason (and userbase) |
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to do it. Regarding mips3/fuloong users can still get an existing |
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stage3 and update afterwards. Like I said before, I never proposed to |
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drop these stages from mirrors, just to stop updating them. |
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Ideas are welcomed, my initial email was just a suggestion and my goal |
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was to kick off a discussion |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras |
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