Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 14:38:42 -0500 From: "Roberto Rodriguez Jr." <witchdoctor.mdf@gmail.com> To: Jonathon McDaniels <mcdanielsjr@mymail.vcu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC idea - porting and patching of userland for lld, the LLVM linker Message-ID: <20150306193842.GA44002@k8-bsd.hsd1.ga.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <54F9EFD7.7030803@mymail.vcu.edu> References: <54F9EFD7.7030803@mymail.vcu.edu>
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 01:20:07PM -0500, Jonathon McDaniels wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> After giving it some thought, I was thinking of porting ( as in, make it
> a port of ) and patching the userland so a make buildworld can go
> through on x86/AMD64 on lld, the LLVM linker, and if time permits,
> patching the kernel to make use of it.. As the binutils included in base
> is over 7 years old, and is unlikely to be updated due to the GPLv3, it
> would make sense to assist with removing dependence of the FreeBSD
> platforms now using LLVM/Clang for compiling.
Yes I love this idea. I have buildkernel_world so many times that I fell in
love with UNIX. Thank you all for amazing software. I too want this to happen
lets have FreeBSD free of GPL_v1234..
We definitely need a new base and I am passionate enough to dedicate many hours
to help. Please anyone give me a chance. ;)
> Before I go contact the mentors that would be within the scope of this
> project, I wanted to make sure of the following:
>
> * That this would be a good use of GSoC
> * That it is narrow enough in scope to be feasible, but broad enough
> that it would prove a beneficial project.
>
> Considering the environment we have now, I think it would allow me to
> further my knowledge of C beyond what I already know ( currently working
> on learning about dynamic linking of libraries, and I already know about
> data structures, stacks, pointers etc. and plan to be much farther along
> by the time of the start of the project and deliverables. ).
Yes I want to learn C and assembly! I have very little knowledge but I am
like a sponge and take advice nicely.
>
> And since lld is compatible with the BSD license terms, and is
> interoperable with LLVM, it seems a viable and good project to undertake.
[joke]
FreeBSD 12 with Clang/LLVM 4.0 with optional GPL support. PureBSD!
[/joke]
> Thoughts from you guys?
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> Thanks,
Thank you for this nice idea. I am willing to write many more thoughts advocating this
move.
> Jonathon "Johnny" McDaniels
Roberto Rodriguez Jr.
Wannabe UNIX enthusiast unemployed
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