On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:46 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:>> By the way, we are looking for ARM testers. There was a lot of interest in the 3.0 release for an ARM release. We will try to do one this release on a trial basis. We are looking for ARMv7 cortex-a8 and cortex-a9 on Linux. > > We have two pandard board (ARMv7 cortex-a9) and perhaps one ARMv6 > 4-cores board. Do we do a native compile or cross compile for the ARM > platform? >My personal preference is to prioritize qualifying as a cross compiler first and a hosted compiler second. I have no problems with doing both other than the additional testing resources required, though. -Jim
On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jim Grosbach <grosbach at apple.com> wrote:> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:46 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > >>> By the way, we are looking for ARM testers. There was a lot of interest in the 3.0 release for an ARM release. We will try to do one this release on a trial basis. We are looking for ARMv7 cortex-a8 and cortex-a9 on Linux. >> >> We have two pandard board (ARMv7 cortex-a9) and perhaps one ARMv6 >> 4-cores board. Do we do a native compile or cross compile for the ARM >> platform? >> > > My personal preference is to prioritize qualifying as a cross compiler first and a hosted compiler second. I have no problems with doing both other than the additional testing resources required, though. >I agree with Jim. While having a native ARM compiler might be nice, it's not something I want to embark on for this release. -bw
David Chisnall
2012-Mar-29 21:40 UTC
[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Announcing 3.1 Release Branch Date!
On 29 Mar 2012, at 21:33, Bill Wendling wrote:> I agree with Jim. While having a native ARM compiler might be nice, it's not something I want to embark on for this release.For what it's worth, I've been using clang self-hosted on a Freescale i.MX515 (Cortex A8) for about six months. Aside from ARM exceptions being completely broken, it works nicely. I've not updated it very often, because recompiling LLMV + clang is an overnight job on that poor little machine. It's a bit better on a dual-core Snapdragon... David -- Sent from my Apple II
> > My personal preference is to prioritize qualifying as a cross compiler first and a hosted compiler second. I have no problems with doing both other than the additional testing resources required, though. > > > I agree with Jim. While having a native ARM compiler might be nice, it's not something I want to embark on for this release.From James's experience, a native build would take a long time. But I am afarid of a cross build might not suit a compiler testing (i.e., cross build might not expose lurking bugs), that's why I have this question. :) Regards, chenwj -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj