Re: [gentoo-mips] Reducing the number of the MIPS supported stages

[Panagiotis Christopoulos <pchrist@gentoo.org>]

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On 15:06 Mon 05 May     , Markos Chandras wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi,

> ... 
> This takes quite a bit of time for all stages to be built (by the time 
> everything is built, we are one month passed the time the snapshot was 
> taken). How about stop building stages for mips1, mips3 and mips4? We 
> keep the existing stages on the mirrors but we will no longer update 
> them (or maybe we do on per user or per case basis). I understand there 
> is hardware for these ISAs but how often do people actually use the new 
> stages?
> 
> Just to be clear, I am not suggesting for the team to stop supporting 
> these ISAs but to stop building new stages and let the users of such 
> ISAs, grab an old stage3 and do the update themselves if needed.
> 
> This will free up some hardware resources for building different stages 
> for the newer ISAs (maybe more non-multilib n32 and n64 variants etc)
> 
> What does everyone think?

I agree. If we don't have the resources to build everything for everyone, lets
just build what is mainstream at the moment. I don't know catalyst's internals
or how painful it would be to update the whole set once per year or a bit longer, but it could
be nice, because I'm not sure how possible would be to update a stage3 after >
1-2 years.

But again, because I'm not in the MIPS industry, so can't say whether people are really
using the older ISAs stages, if you suspect nobody is using them just do as you
say and stop updating them, and we build any upon request.

Panagiotis

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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
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