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* [gentoo-mips] Reducing the number of the MIPS supported stages
@ 2014-05-05 14:06 99% Markos Chandras
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From: Markos Chandras @ 2014-05-05 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-mips; +Cc: releng

Hi all,

Right now the number of stages for each endianness is 8:

- mips1
- mips32
- mips32r2
- mips3
- mips4
- mips4_r10
- mips64
- mips64r2

==> 16 stages in total.

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?

(CC'ing releng just to keep them in the loop)

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras


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