Re: [PATCH v4 03/13] mips: Add MIPS Release 5 support

Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-05-22T01:33:26Z

On Thu, 21 May 2020, Serge Semin wrote:

> There are five MIPS32/64 architecture releases currently available:
> from 1 to 6 except fourth one, which was intentionally skipped.
> Three of them can be called as major: 1st, 2nd and 6th, that not only
> have some system level alterations, but also introduced significant
> core/ISA level updates. The rest of the MIPS architecture releases are
> minor.

Well, strictly speaking R3 added microMIPS support, which was all but
minor (of course there were minor updates too, such as 2008-NaN support).

Maciej