----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Saturday, 19 September, 2015 1:17:45 AM
Subject: Re: llvm 3.7 for rawhide and then f23
On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 00:16 -0400, David Airlie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I've been updating rawhide to llvm 3.7 upstream, so we can get
> OpenGL 4.1 support on the radeonsi GPUs.
>
> The two depends on llvm I don't control/know about were julia and
> pocl, I've done my best to make them work,
> pocl I've rebased to git, which seems to be upstream advice
> julia I've updated to the latest in the 0.4 branch and had to move
> some tests to the not working on i686 list.
>
> Once the builds complete, I'll get rel-eng to tag the whole lot over
> into rawhide. Then I'll repeat for Fedora 23 some time next week and
> file an update.
>
Given that we are now post-Beta for F23, it seems a little late in the
cycle to be introducing a new llvm runtime. Is it guaranteed to be
backwards-compatible?
It's llvm, there is never a good time to upgrade it and no llvm release is backwards
compatible.
Dave.