From owner-freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Sat Feb 9 16:06:00 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-toolchain@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687B514E4D9F for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2019 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFAB870C5F for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2019 16:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id x19G5uSd060949; Sat, 9 Feb 2019 08:05:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id x19G5tqq060948; Sat, 9 Feb 2019 08:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <201902091605.x19G5tqq060948@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: tier classifications: mips listed as 2 in one place and 3 in another In-Reply-To: <2CD5795F-4C98-4F3D-9875-1F3DA45F53C2@yahoo.com> To: Mark Millard Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 08:05:55 -0800 (PST) CC: FreeBSD Toolchain X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: DFAB870C5F X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.43 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.50)[-0.505,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.81)[0.811,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.76)[-0.756,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dnsmgr.net]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[yahoo.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13868, ipnet:69.59.192.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.01)[ip: (0.02), ipnet: 69.59.192.0/19(0.01), asn: 13868(-0.02), country: US(-0.07)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:06:00 -0000 > > https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ classifies mips as tier 3. > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html classifies > mips as tier 2. > There is also tier information appearing in: http://pkg.freebsd.org/ and probably other places if we dig around > They agree for: > > Tier 1: amd64, i386 > > Tier 2: arm64, arm, powerpc, sparc64 > > Tier 3: risc-v > > > (I noticed this while checking if the official status had changed for > arm64 or arm.) The tier information should be refactored to a single document and other places set up as pointers to that document, or some mechanism to have documents extract that information from a central single place of truth. Further note that the package system treats powerpc vs powerpc64 differently (no packages for powerpc). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org