From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 16:13:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AB21065674 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:13:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82BB8FC26 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O4z1t-000080-Em; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:29 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1O4z1t-0006LT-AL; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:29 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3MGDT2P055530; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o3MGDTPM055529; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:28 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: ed@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20100422161328.GB55493@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100422154732.GA51340@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100422154732.GA51340@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Status Report January-March, 2010 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:13:31 -0000 On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:47:32PM +0000, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report *skip* > > Clang replacing GCC in the base system > > URL: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang > URL: > http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/FreeBSD-current/2010-April/016648.ht > ml > > Contact: Ed Schouten > Contact: Roman Divacky > Contact: Brooks Davis > Contact: Pawel Worach > > Since the last status report we got to the state where we are able to > build all of FreeBSD (the C and C++ bits) on i386/amd64 with clang. The > only exception is the bootloader which does not fit within the given > size constraint. This is where the current efforts are going on. The > C++ part got a big boost now being able to compile all C++ code in > FreeBSD and itself. > > We saw some movment on Mips and PowerPC. Mips got its driver > definitions from Oleksander Tymoshenko and Nathan Whitehorn did the > same for PowerPC and tested the kernel. Currently, the PPC kernel seems > to boot but due to lack of va_arg implementation for PowerPC nothing is > printed out. Nathan is working on that. > > Overall ClangBSD is selfhosting on i386/amd64 and some progress has > been made on PowerPC/PPC. We also saw some contribution to the Sparc64 > but this seems to have stalled. > > We need people to try out ClangBSD (see the wiki) and runtime test it. > We also would appreciate help with other archs - namely ARM. > > Open tasks: > > 1. Runtime test ClangBSD on amd64/i386. > 2. Help with ARM/Mips/Sparc64. > 3. More testing of clang on 3rd party apps (ports). > 4. Discussion on integrating LLVM/clang into FreeBSD. what about ia64? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423