Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA"

[Richard Henderson]

On 4/8/21 6:10 PM, Vince Del Vecchio wrote:
> > I think we should retain the deprecation until you actually follow through with 
> > any of the upstreaming.
> >
> > You didn't even bother to commit your changes to a code repository -- merely 
> > uploaded tarballs.  There have been no posts to the > gcc mailing lists about 
> > nanomips.
> >
> > A mere code dump is not active development.
>
> Maybe not, but we are in fact actively developing.  :-)

Good to hear.

> The nanoMIPS toolchain we inherited is based on gcc 6.3.  We’ve been working on 
> upgrading to gcc trunk since late February, but it's not a trivial task.  As 
> soon as we're done (hopefully before the summer), we'll propose the changes to 
> the gcc mailing list.

Ouch.  I understand that's a big job rebasing to mainline.

> In sum, we're investing in open source nanoMIPS tools because it's an important 
> technology for us, and QEMU is one of the key projects we want to have nanoMIPS 
> supported in.

Well, hopefully that means you'll have made some progress by late summer, when 
qemu 6.1 is due.


r~