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

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Right now the number of stages for each endianness is 8:
>
> - mips1
> - mips32
> - mips32r2

Do we need r1 and r2 stages?

(Isn't r3 a thing now?)

> - mips3
> - mips4
> - mips4_r10

Big endian only.

> - mips64
> - mips64r2

Do we need r1 and r2 stages?

>
> ==> 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?

How often are you building stages?

Resources aren't a problem but it takes a month to build everything?
Don't you have a 16 or 32-core build system? Cavium gave me ssh access
to one that I was planning to build stages on, but I never tried.

I guess I don't understand the problem you're facing.