Chris,> FYI, I completely agree that we shouldn't remove the sparc target. However, it is currently unmaintained, and has some pretty glaring bugs. Is anyone interested in stepping up to maintain the target? > > -ChrisWe can not let it die and I volunteer to keep the Sparc alive! My SPARCstation pizzaboxes can be ready for action in a day or two. Pawel Wodnicki> On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Vikram Adve wrote: >> Sparc is a popular target for architecture simulators, and removing that back end would force people using such simulators to use some other compiler infrastructure. Sparc is also useful for University courses. I'd strongly discourage removing this back end. >> >> --Vikram >> Professor, Computer Science >> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >> http://llvm.org/~vadve
On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Pawel Wodnicki wrote:> Chris, > >> FYI, I completely agree that we shouldn't remove the sparc target. However, it is currently unmaintained, and has some pretty glaring bugs. Is anyone interested in stepping up to maintain the target? >> >> -Chris > > We can not let it die and I volunteer to keep the Sparc alive! > > My SPARCstation pizzaboxes can be ready for action in a day or two.Fantastic. A great place to start would be to investigate / screen various sparc related bugs in bugzilla to see if they are still relevant and present: http://llvm.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sparc This bug looks pretty fatal if it is actually real: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10938 -Chris
Hi Pawel,> We can not let it die and I volunteer to keep the Sparc alive! > > My SPARCstation pizzaboxes can be ready for action in a day or two.there are three sparc buildbots which are hooked up to lab.llvm.org. They are currently idle because no builders have been scheduled to use them: # gcc54 36G 0.5 GHz TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) / 1.5 GB RAM / Sun Netra T1 200 / Debian sparc # gcc62 9202 36G 6x0.4 GHz TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) / 5 GB RAM / Sun Enterprise 4500 / Debian sparc # gcc63 9203 72G 8x4x1 GHz Sun UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) / 8 GB RAM / Sun Fire T1000 / Debian sparc Feel free to use them. I can give you login access if you send me a public ssh key. Ciao, Duncan.
Venkatraman Govindaraju
2011-Oct-26 18:54 UTC
[LLVMdev] is anyone using the sparc backend?
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:> > Fantastic. A great place to start would be to investigate / screen various sparc related bugs in bugzilla to see if they are still relevant and present: > http://llvm.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sparc > > This bug looks pretty fatal if it is actually real: > http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10938 >I can not reproduce this bug in the current trunk. It may already be fixed by the revision r122607. I also volunteer to fix any issues with Sparc backend. Thanks, Venkatraman
On 10/26/2011 10:51 AM, Duncan Sands wrote:> Hi Pawel, > >> We can not let it die and I volunteer to keep the Sparc alive! >> >> My SPARCstation pizzaboxes can be ready for action in a day or two. > > there are three sparc buildbots which are hooked up to lab.llvm.org. They are > currently idle because no builders have been scheduled to use them: > > # gcc54 36G 0.5 GHz TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) / 1.5 GB RAM / Sun > Netra T1 200 / Debian sparc > > # gcc62 9202 36G 6x0.4 GHz TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) / 5 GB RAM / Sun > Enterprise 4500 / Debian sparc > > # gcc63 9203 72G 8x4x1 GHz Sun UltraSparc T1 (Niagara) / 8 GB RAM / Sun > Fire T1000 / Debian sparcIf anyone is looking for Solaris{8,9,10}/Sparc then opencsw.org has similar buildfarm machines on Sparc-Enterprise-T5520, 24x1.1 Ghz SparcV9 (UltraSparc T2?). Let me know, I can get you in contact with opencsw.org admins. Best regards, --Edwin