[LLVMdev] LLVM / Elkhound / ARM

[Guillaume FORTAINE]

 Hello,

 I am French Engineer in Informatics and I would want to build a start
 up to  manufacture mobile phones ( OEM level ). I am currently in discussion 
with investors.

We would want to use LLVM as our main compiler but we will need to complete it 
to have a "commercial grade" one.


Here are our goals :

-Use a modified Elkhound as C/C++ front-end :
 

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/elkhound/

-Complete the ARM back-end


-Fix the bugs to be able to compile a complete Cross Linux from scratch for 
arm with uclibc-nptl.

http://trac.cross-lfs.org/milestone/CLFS 3.0.0


We believe that we will be able to speak of LLVM 2.0. :) 

How many people/much time ( full-time developers) are/is needed to success in 
this enterprise ? 

What is the best background they need to have to work on this ? ( C, gcc, 
lcc ? )

( we need these informations for our partners ).

It's a million dollars project and the stuff will be released under GPL.


We look forward to your answer,

Best Regards,

                                Guillaume