[PATCH] [RFC PATCH] BPF backend

Alexei Starovoitov alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 15:01:08 PST 2014


On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Pete Cooper <peter_cooper at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please let me know your feedback and steps to get it merged.
>
>
> Could I ask who's going to maintain this backend? Targets without an
> active LLVM sub-community behind them tend to slowly bit-rot until
> everyone else gets fed up enough with fixing it when they refactor
> things; they then get removed.
>
> Also (using AMDGPU and AArch64 as recent examples), we tend to add new
> backends as experimental then move them to ALL_TARGETS after some period of
> time.

that makes sense,
though it looks like LLVM_EXPERIMENTAL_TARGETS_TO_BUILD
only exists in cmake setup... so I'm guessing it's obsolete?



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