[libre-riscv-dev] LLVM 9.0 Release

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:32 Michael Pham <pham.michael.98 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> LLVM 9.0 has just been released.
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-9.0-Clang-9.0-Released
>
> The most relevant piece for us is that Alex's LLVM RISC-V fork from
> lowRISC is now successfully upstreamed and RISC-V is now an official
> backend! So we don't need to use lowRISC's version of LLVM anymore.
>

yay!

I've been following llvm's mailing list, so was already aware that the
risc-v backend is no longer experimental -- I think I mentioned that on
another thread, but am not sure.

>
> Some other interesting facts but less relevant is that LLVM can now
> build the mainline Linux kernel (the Linux kernel for the longest time
> could only be exclusively built with gcc but that's changed now).
>

didn't know that, but did know Google's been working on upstreaming all
their Android work, which would probably include that.

>
> Michael
>
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