RE: [PATCH-for-5.2] target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA

On 11/2/20 12:27 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: Hi Philippe & everyone, Apologies for the late response. MediaTek is using the nanoMIPS architecture and is now doing nanoMIPS toolchain development. I believe Wave/MIPS are not any longer, so you can probably say we are taking over nanoMIPS toolchain development. We have just published a new release of the toolchain at https://github.com/MediaTek-Labs/nanomips-gnu-toolchain/releases/tag/nano... and we have started work on upgrading the toolchain to the latest versions in preparation for upstreaming. (We are also investigating an LLVM port.) We are also willing to act as maintainers for the QEMU nanoMIPS port, and we have agreement with the current and former MIPS QEMU maintainers (Aleksandar Rikalo & Aleksandar Markovic, both from Syrmia) to help us in this process if needed. To sum up, nanoMIPS is alive and in active development, so based on your criteria it should remain supported in QEMU. Please let us know how else we can help with this process. -Vince Del Vecchio Compiler Team Lead & Deputy Director, DSP Core Technology MediaTek, Inc.