[LLVMdev] LLC ARM Backend maintainer

[Sandeep Patel]

Testing on arm-darwin outside of Apple is _complicated_. I had it
partially working about two years ago.

The general approach is to use rsh/ssh to remotely execute each test
on the target, which outside of Apple requires jailbreaking. In the
old test system, setting up REMOTE_CLIENT=ssh, REMOTE_PORT, etc. would
automatically use ssh to run the tests. In lit, it looks like
TestRunner.py has support for external shells that may be intended for
this purpose; I can't tell. The test-suite and bugpoint code for
working this way is still present.

The problem with this setup is that it assumes that the target will be
running the tests at the same paths as they were built on the host.
That cannot be achieved outside of Apple because all the NFS
components are not present in the released/jailbroken iOS. It should
be straight-forward to build these pieces from the source, but I
stopped investigating this at this point.

If somebody else gets this working outside of Apple, please post more
instructions to the list. I know I felt more comfortable at least
being able to hand run a few specific tests on arm-darwin against my
ARM patches before submitting since I was making large changes to
calling conventions and they are quite different on arm-darwin. Other
areas of ARM work probably aren't as likely to need to test on
arm-darwin outside of Apple.

deep

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha
<quixote at dulcineatech.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Raja Venkateswaran
> <rajav at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> I think we need a group of maintainers rather than a single maintainer given
>> the spectrum of ARM targets/ISAs/platforms required to support
>
> There have been a plethora of ARM Instruction Set Architecture
> variants over the years.  Which ones do we expect LLVM to support
> right now, and which as-yet unsupported ones do we wish to support?
>
> Am I correct that ARM7TDMI is the oldest, slowest core still in use?
>
> The Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have the Apple A9 CPU, which I
> understand is a dual-core Cortex A9.
>
> The iPhone 4 and first-generation iPad have the Cortex A8.
>
> Xcode gives on the option of targeting either the arm6 or arm7 ISAs,
> with the recommended build being "Universal" in that the build is done
> twice with both ISA variants built into the same executable.  I
> understand older iPhones and iPod Touches support the arm6 but not
> arm7.
>
> Ever Faithful,
>
> Don Quixote
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