On 2018-06-26 10:49 PM, Marek Olšák wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote: >> On 2018-06-26 06:37 PM, Marek Olšák wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 4:26 AM Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2018-06-26 03:49 AM, Marek Olšák wrote: >>>>> Good timing. I have a patch that removes LLVM 5.0 support from AMD >>>>> Mesa drivers. :) >>>> >>>> Keep in mind that we have to support at least two major versions of >>>> LLVM, otherwise we force our users to upgrade Mesa and LLVM in lockstep, >>>> which can be painful. >>>> >>> >>> I'd like us to drop LLVM 6.0 support after 7.0 is released to remove the >>> codepath without 32bit pointers. I'm sure users will be fine and it will >>> move them to a better and faster version of the compiler. >> >> I very much doubt distribution packagers would be happy about this. Have >> they indicated otherwise to you? > > I assume they update LLVM alongside Mesa.
Please talk to them, don't assume. The more likely outcome is the Mesa update getting delayed until everything else is ready for updating LLVM. > We'll have to bump the LLVM version for future chips anyway. Those chips just can't be supported if LLVM is too old. We've done that before. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
