Hi,

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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 ?
>>>
>> ping ?
>>
> ping ?
>
ping, Warner ?

FWIW, I guess that in 4 months, either you had time to finish the
patch, or I could have found to time to complete it myself based on
your incomplete version. I'd really be interested to benchmark recent,
decent, compiler.

Thanks,
 - Arnaud
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