<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another update on this topic: Currently three patches have been approved, thanks for all reviewers’ time and efforts :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are the remaining patches:</div><div class=""> - Patch 1/8 D88385: Got one LGTM, however I believe Jessica Clarke (jrtc27) (CC-ed here) is listed as blocker. Does anyone here know the best way to contact Jessica? Since the patch has been blocked for quite a long time and pinging @jrtc27 on Phab didn’t seem to work</div><div class=""> - Patch 3/8 D88389 (Basic .td files)</div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""> - Patch 4/8 D88390 (MC layer)</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> - Patch 5/8 D88391 (Target lowering)</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> - Patch 6/8 D88392 (IR Tests)</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Except Patch 6, which only has minor formatting issues to fix, I didn’t see any major objections or concerns on other patches at this time point.</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">In addition to the patch review, tomorrow Dec 18th 19:00 CET (10:00 AM PST), Nick Desaulniers is going to give a talk on compiling Linux Kernel for M68k using LLVM.</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Please checkout <a href="http://m68k.info/" class="">http://m68k.info/</a> for more info about the live stream</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Best,</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">-Min</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 4, 2020, at 1:03 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <<a href="mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de" class="">glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Min!<br class=""><br class="">On 12/4/20 8:32 AM, Min-Yih Hsu wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Another major update on this topic: currently I’ve addressed most of the feedbacks<br class="">on the Phabricator patches. (I think only one was left and that’s related to Windows,<br class="">but since our own buildbots only run non-Windows system I think it’s fine for now)<br class=""><br class="">More importantly, I’ve fixed rest of the test failures, so now except one XFAIL test<br class="">case, which takes more time to fix it, M68k passes all of its tests now :-)<br class=""><br class="">Personally, I think the M68k backend is in good shape to become an experimental LLVM backend.<br class=""><br class="">Currently only Patch 7 (D88393) has Renato’s semi-LGTM, and he was also asking other<br class="">people’s opinion and LGTM. It would be great if anyone can help reviewing and approving<br class="">these patches.<br class=""><br class="">The journey of getting M68k backend upstream has gone pretty far and again, I really<br class="">appreciate feedbacks and helps from reviewers and everyone on this thread!<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Congratulations on this important milestone and the fantastic work you delivered.<br class=""><br class="">I would have never expected that this effort would ever get this far, so I'm more<br class="">than impressed and happy about the news.<br class=""><br class="">The backend is also already actively being used in another project, namely a compiler<br class="">explorer instance which features various compilers for m68k including your LLVM<br class="">port [1].<br class=""><br class="">And, secondly, Nick Desaulniers will be giving a short talk on December 18th, on our<br class="">monthly m68k online meeting [2] where he will be talking about compiling the Linux<br class="">kernel for m68k using your new LLVM backend :-).<br class=""><br class="">Adrian<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">[1] <a href="http://brownbot.mooo.com/" class="">http://brownbot.mooo.com/</a><br class="">[2] <a href="http://m68k.info/" class="">http://m68k.info/</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class=""> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz<br class="">: :' : Debian Developer - <a href="mailto:glaubitz@debian.org" class="">glaubitz@debian.org</a><br class="">`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - <a href="mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de" class="">glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de</a><br class=""> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>