Re: [STATUS]: clang/llvm support on FreeBSD

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:13:05PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:21:03PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The clang_at_freebsd team presents the status of clang/llvm being
> > able to compile FreeBSD system. The situation as of today
> > (Sep 24th) is:
> > 
> > 
> > 	i386 - kernel boots, world needs little hacks but works
> > 
> > 	amd64 - kernel compiles but does not boot, world needs
> > 		little hacks
> > 
> > 	ppc - broken because of unknown RTLD bug
> > 
> > 	other - unknown
> > 
> > 
> > all other platforms are untested. Ie. this is a regression from the
> > situation in early spring when we could boot amd64 as well...
> > 
> > A lot has happened over the spring/summer - amd64 got proper mcmodel=kernel
> > support, compiler-rt was introduced (paving the way for libgcc replacement),
> > we ran two experimental ports build to see how clang does there, C++ support
> > is able to parse devd.cc without warnings, we got kernel working with -O2,
> > we promoted FreeBSD to be officially supported plaform in LLVM etc. etc.
> > 
> > We have problems though: we don't have manpower for testing (thats why amd64
> > kernel stopped booting) and developers for integrating stuff into FreeBSD
> > (maintaining ports etc.). So if you are interested in helping please contact
> > me or join us on IRC in #freebsd-clang on irc.oftc.net. We especially need
> > amd64 testers (because of the amd64 kernel bug) and people with minor platforms
> > like arm/mips/sparc to see how clang/llvm performs there and improve that
> > situation.
> > 
> 
> Is there any progress on support for 64-bit SPARC-V9 in LLVM as
> required for sparc64?

unfortunately no. at least I am not aware of any such effort