Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:13:28 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: ed@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Status Report January-March, 2010 Message-ID: <20100422161328.GB55493@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100422154732.GA51340@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20100422154732.GA51340@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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 <ed@FreeBSD.org> > Contact: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> > Contact: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> > Contact: Pawel Worach <pawel.worach@gmail.com> > > 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
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