On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:08 , Kalle Raiskila <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> LLVM 3.4 branched a few days ago, so it is time to branch pocl 0.9 too.
> 
> The LLVM time table is:
> 
>    Nov 19-Nov 24: Phase I Testing
>    Nov 25-Dec 1: Fix bugs from Phase I
>    Dec 2-Dec 8: Phase II Testing
>    Dec 9-Dec 15: Fix bugs form Phase II
>    Dec 16-Dec 22: Final Binaries Generated
>    Dec 23: Release Date
> 
>> From past experience, we pocl has been released a few weeks after LLVM,
> so lets try to get it out first thing, 2014.
> 
> The only two things on the TODO-before-0.9 list that I know of are:
> 
> -switch to LLVM-API mode as default
> -check the target issues on ARM and PPC
> -this is a bit problematic as both LLVM 3.3 and 3.4 are currently
> broken on ARM.

pocl currently doesn't build with llvm-3.4 or with llvm-trunk, not even for 
x86. The issue is the address space handling. This sounds like a show-stopper 
to me. We need to act quickly to ensure that this is corrected in llvm-3.4 (if 
that is where the problem lies) before the release.

-erik

> If you want some major change into 0.9, please reply to this list ASAP!
> 
> I hope these issues can be ironed out during next week, after which 0.9
> will be branched for testing. 
> 
> I created a wiki page for the 0.9 branch:
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pocl/index.php?title=Release_plan_for_pocl_0.9
> 
> 
> kalle
> 
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