<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 10:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <<a href="mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de">glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So, I think in case there was a problem with the backend in LLVM, the community<br>
would have enough momentum to work towards solving this issue.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Great!</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I agree. But we will enable the target in Debian the moment it becomes usable<br>
and we will expose it to as much testing as possible to unconver bugs or remaining<br>
features and report them upstream.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's good to hear. The Debian project has helped us do extensive tests in other hardware and it provided us with confidence that what we build actually works in some real world context.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We have a rough list of remaining issues in [1] and [2]. Min also gave a talk<br>
in [3] where he drafted out the TODO and plans for the backend [3]. The talk<br>
is also available on Youtube [4].<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, IIUC, the current implementation is reasonably complete. You're able to compile C programs and run them on real hardware. The main effort now is to upstream what you have, and continue the development. </div><div><br></div><div>This would make the "plan" easier. Getting the current state upstream would make for a nice experimental target. Getting Debian packages compiled and tested with QEMU would demonstrate production quality.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>--renato</div></div></div>