Stephane Marchesin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Keith Whitwell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Stephane Marchesin >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi again, >>> >>> I've adapted (but didn't push it) gallivm to llvm 2.4 (svn) API >>> changes. But then there's an obvious question about what we're doing >>> with those API changes ? Do we settle on a given version, or do we >>> want to adapt it as the llvm API changes ? >> It's always been my hope that we'd be able to target stable versions >> of llvm... at least when we're creating stable versions of our own >> software. IE. at some future Mesa 7.6 or 8.0 stable version, we would >> have settled on a stable llvm to go with it. > > Hmm ok. There are a number of side issues though, for example > compiling clang on top of the chosen llvm version. Because clang is > under development, there are no releases that "match" llvm releases. > To put it clearly, you can't compile clang svn on llvm 2.2 or 2.3. > > Also, from discussing with the llvm developers, it seems that clang is > still pretty buggy so they advise to use a version that's as new as > possible (this is why I updated llvm in the first place). > >> However, while we're in development & on a development branch, it >> probably makes sense to track llvm's development version. Certainly >> I'd like to see the Cell driver make use of the llvm Cell backend, >> which itself I understand is not fully done, so to achieve that we'd >> want to track/contribute to the llvm svn repo. > > Yeah I was wondering why you were all busy working on doing a gallium > cell backend while llvm could've done the trick. Btw there is someone > who recently revived the cell backend in llvm so chances are it'll get > better now.
That's good news. I've played with the LLVM Cell code generator and clang and found that very little of it actually worked properly. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
