[PATCH] [RFC PATCH] BPF backend

[Tom Stellard]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:01:08PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 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?


In the autoconf build, you can use --enable-experimental-targets=BPF.
You don't need to make any modifications to configure.ac for this to work.

-Tom

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