Hi,

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> On May 22, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>
>> Hi Warner,
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> (2) Working clang/LLVM cross-compile of FreeBSD.  This seems like a basic
>>>>>>  requirement to adopt clang/LLVM, and as far as I'm aware that's not yet 
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>  resolved issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> 0 work has been done here to my knowledge.  The world view for clang and 
>>>>> our in-tree gcc differ which makes it a challenge.
>>>>
>>>> That's disappointing. I seem to recall it's more an issue of our build 
>>>> integration with clang/LLVM than an underlying issue in clang/LLVM?
>>>
>>> Yes.  The problem isn't hard, the cross compile paradigm is just a little 
>>> different.
>>>
>>>>>> We (Cambridge) are currently bringing up FreeBSD on a new soft-core 
>>>>>> 64-bit MIPS platform.  We're already using a non-base gcc for our boot 
>>>>>> loader work, and plan to move to using clang/LLVM later in the year.  
>>>>>> The base system seems a bit short on detail when it comes to the above, 
>>>>>> currently.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes.  I've had to add about a dozen changes so far to get close to 
>>>>> building with xdev compilers.  A similar number are needed to make it 
>>>>> easy to configure and add systree support, I think.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like great progress -- do you think we'll ship 9.0 in a "just 
>>>> works" state with regard to this?
>>>
>>> I sure hope so.  I'd like to have demoable stuff by BSDcan.
>>>
>> BSDCan has passed, has there been any advance made since that discussion ?
>
> It is "demonstrable" but not ready to commit to the tree.  Needs about 4 
> hours of work that I've had trouble scheduling on it due to work getting 
> busier than I expected.
>
any chances to have a look at the patch or should I wait for the final commit ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud
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