<div dir="ltr">I'd like to profusely thank Dylan for the large amount of work this has entailed! This is exciting news, and I'm sure the Rust community looks forward to thoroughly exercising this new platform.<div><br></div><div>-Jake </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Dylan McKay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dylanmckay34@gmail.com" target="_blank">dylanmckay34@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_8385372622641554028markdown-here-wrapper"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Hey all,</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The AVR backend has now finally been merged in-tree completely.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Thanks to Krzysztof and Matt for all of their hard work reviewing <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/differential/query/AuHaJ3SXjDmO" target="_blank">patches</a></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Development will now halt on the downstream repository (on <a href="https://github.com/avr-llvm/llvm" target="_blank">GitHub</a>), and it will now be done LLVM proper.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">This is good news, especially for the embedded Rust community, as it will be much easier to maintain it now.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Next steps</p>
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<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">A buildbot will be added for the backend</li>
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">Support will be added to clang to support the backend (if it is desired)</li>
</ul>
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