From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728AC1381FA for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 23:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78FF0E0BC3; Mon, 5 May 2014 23:36:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 035F8E0BC3 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 23:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f173.google.com (mail-qc0-f173.google.com [209.85.216.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB8293402FE for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 23:36:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id i8so2610509qcq.32 for ; Mon, 05 May 2014 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.32.97 with SMTP id g88mr45847681qgg.17.1399333011692; Mon, 05 May 2014 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.244.200 with HTTP; Mon, 5 May 2014 16:36:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53680A7E.9000209@gentoo.org> References: <53679ACC.3000809@gentoo.org> <53680A7E.9000209@gentoo.org> From: Matt Turner Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:36:31 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] Reducing the number of the MIPS supported stages To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a7659cde-1d21-4091-968e-32a598301065 X-Archives-Hash: f5f6e704d719d10efbfe53a239e2a100 On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Kinard 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.