r199012 - Select the UltraSPARC instruction set when invoking the assembler.

[Jakob Stoklund Olesen]

On Jan 11, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen <stoklund at 2pi.dk> wrote:
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> On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
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>> Do we have a SPARC builder?
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> No. I have an old Sun box, but it is too slow and too noisy to serve as a builder.
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>> Can we self-host? (Just curious; I'm clueless about the state of SPARC in LLVM and it seems to be getting some action recently).
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> With Venkatraman's recent work, we are very close to self-hosting a SPARCv9 build.
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> Neat. Are there any beefy-enough SPARC chips around to serve as builders some day? If not, then at least we could get a wimpier one (OpenSPARC on an FPGA?) and do like the wimpy ARM bots.

You can get very decent hardware for little money on eBay. (Search for UltraSPARC.) My dual UltraSPARC III processors need a few hours to build clang. An 8-core T1 would do better.

Thanks,
/jakob

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