On 06/08/2018 06:05 AM, Andrew Jenner wrote: > On 08/06/2018 12:43, Dennis Luehring wrote: >>>> is the patch already integrated into mainline? >>> No, it's not. >> >> will that ever happen? > > Hard to say. There's no reason in principle why it couldn't happen, but > there's not a big demand for it, so it would require someone taking the > time and trouble to do it. It's not trivial, though - the current > implementation has some middle-end changes which would need thinking > through and doing properly to avoid polluting that code with ia16-isms. > > I might update it and have another try at upstreaming it at some point > if nobody else does it first, but I have too much else going on at the > moment so it would likely be a year or two (maybe more) before I get to it. Time is by far the biggest concern for the ia16 backend. THere's just a mountain of higher priority stuff right now. It doesn't help that I keep getting dragged into other stuff :(
jeff
