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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On 05/05/2014 06:04 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
> 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,

Resources is not a huge problem at the moment. Like I explained on the
other email, I am mainly interested in discussing whether doing so is
desired or not.

 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.

Reducing the frequency of such stages can also be an option. I didn't
quite rule that out yet

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Regards,
Markos Chandras