On May 5, 2014 3:07 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

Agree in general but not quite sure about the choice. Mips3 (fuloong) is
still quite widely used I think. Mips32 might not be though, Android seems
to be mips32r2

Has anyone asked Imagination for resources to support this?

Justin