From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] Reducing the number of the MIPS supported stages
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:36:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdQ38FWiYkmV6GUxKsOLKSOZw8EPiSQFR8bkh-z6j2txmu7+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53680A7E.9000209@gentoo.org>
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I cannot speak for anything outside of the standard/original MIPS ISAs, but
> I thought we killed off mips1 long ago. When did that come back? Almost
> anything out there should be able to handle mips2 at a bare minimum (only
> R2000 and R3000-based systems, like certain DECStations, would need mips1).
> mips2 is also the branch point for the mips32r* ISAs, so if any of the
> original, 32-bit ISAs should be kept, that would be mips2. mips1 can go.
We've had this discussion before. If you're going to have >mips2
stages, then there's zero reason to have mips2 stages since mips2
effectively doesn't exist.
mips1 is a significantly smaller build than other stages, since
there's only one ABI. It's really not much time, relatively speaking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-05 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 14:06 [gentoo-mips] Reducing the number of the MIPS supported stages Markos Chandras
2014-05-05 17:04 ` Panagiotis Christopoulos
2014-05-05 17:17 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-05 17:13 ` Justin Cormack
2014-05-05 17:16 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-05 17:22 ` Matt Turner
2014-05-05 17:29 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-05 23:34 ` Matt Turner
2014-05-05 22:02 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-05-05 23:30 ` Matt Turner
2014-05-06 0:15 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-05-05 23:36 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2014-05-06 0:09 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-05-06 7:07 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-06 8:10 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-05-06 17:50 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-06 21:37 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-05-07 7:06 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-07 7:22 ` Joshua Kinard
2014-05-06 11:32 ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-05-06 17:40 ` Markos Chandras
2014-05-05 19:19 ` [gentoo-mips] " Anthony G. Basile
2014-05-05 19:33 ` Markos Chandras
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