[LLVMdev] Would it be possible to have the LLVM be seen as an arch for the kernel to compile against?

[Vikram S. Adve]

[This may be redundant after John's replies but I typed this last  
night and it has been sitting on my laptop.]


That is a good insight.  Please see the following paper, it describes  
how to make such an approach work:
	http://llvm.org/pubs/2006-06-18-WIOSCA-LLVAOS.html

We are also working on another paper describing how to extend this  
into a complete virtual machine, including memory safety, that can  
host a complete modern kernel.

--Vikram
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/


On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote:

> I posted this question on the llvm channel on irc. I am new to all  
> of this. And I only found out about LLVA as a result of the irc.  
> And please forgive my erroneous terminology. So let me try this as  
> best I can.
>
> I want to know if the code of LLVA/LLVM can be used as a virtual  
> processor in configuring the linux kernel? Maybe you have already  
> encountered this and possibly accomplished it as well. I want to  
> use your ISA instead of say an i386 or AMD64. I only recently  
> became aware of your project, so none of this may be new to you.  
> Please be kind in your responses.
>
> Thank you,
> Xavian-Anderson Macpherson
> Shingoshi
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