Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64

Roman Divacky rdivacky at vlakno.cz
Sat Nov 7 08:03:00 UTC 2015


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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