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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:00:45 +0100
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@vlakno.cz>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us, freebsd-sparc64 <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
Message-ID:  <20151107080045.GA4586@vlakno.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20151106203527.GH65715@funkthat.com>
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On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 12:35:27PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Sean Bruno wrote this message on Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 06:19 -0800:
> > problem 1.  the base clang/llvm doesn't support the FreeBSD sparc64
> > target.  This needs work, and hey, if someone wants to spend the time
> > to get things working, great.  Let's move on it and modernize the target.
> 
> We've had support for sparc64 in base clang/llvm for close to a year..
> The problem isn't clang, the problem is making our kernel sources work
> with it...

LLVM still lacks some (many?) things needed to compile FreeBSD kernel.
If nothing else, at least this patch
(http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20141215/248852.html)
is needed. There's also different frame size and probably some other issues.

Roman



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