[LLVMdev] LLC ARM Backend maintainer

[Joe Abbey]

I see, so perhaps the LLVM ARM Backend is in need of a method of organizing volunteer qualifiers, as releases near?

Has this generally been organized via this mailing list?

Joe

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On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Evan Cheng wrote:

I'm the code owner of LLVM codegen and targets. I'm also the one of main developers on the original ARM target. That means, I would make the decisions on major development on ARM target if there are decisions to be made.

But my role is very different from what people are looking for in this thread. To properly qualify a target like ARM which are supported on many different CPUs and platforms, we need a group of volunteers. This is critical near release time for obvious reasons, but it's also welcome between releases as well. LLVM.org<http://LLVM.org/> doesn't explicitly name these "maintainers". I personally don't see a benefit because we don't want to force people to do release qualification when they might not be available. I think what we usually do is for the release manager to gather a group of volunteered. These are the folks who are responsible for qualification the targets of their interests on their preferred platform.

Evan

On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Raja Venkateswaran 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 and the amount of people/system resources required. I & my team plan to actively participate in the bug-fixing process during the release cycle. If we can divide the bugs among the maintainers and establish a requirement that all open ARM bugs must be fixed/addressed (at least analyzed if cannot be fixed) by release time, it will go a long way in ensuring high quality releases for ARM

--Raja

From: Joe Abbey [mailto:jabbey at arxan.com]
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To: Renato Golin
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Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] LLC ARM Backend maintainer

Admittedly we're very interested in becoming ARM backend maintainers as our product heavily relies on LLVM.

However, we don't have testing resources to test both our product and LLVM on a host of target boards.  We have some chumbys, beagleboards, iPhones, iPod Touches, tables, Android Phones, etc.  And most of those are already booked solid with our own regression tests (most of which are based on llvm-test-suite)

Could ARM enable us with testing hardware/resources?

Thanks!

Joe Abbey
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Arxan Technologies, Inc.
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On Oct 13, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Renato Golin wrote:


On 11 October 2011 18:22, Anton Korobeynikov <anton at korobeynikov.info<mailto:anton at korobeynikov.info>> wrote:

1. We should define which ARM-related features (in general, e.g.
platforms, cores, modes, etc.) we consider "release important"
2. We should define the conditions how the features in 1. should be tested
3. Someone should perform such testing for each release, provide help
with reproduction of the problems (consider e.g. PR11107, w/o Bill's
help it would be extremely hard to reproduce the problem, since it
manifests only on arm/darwin).

4. We should be able to guarantee that release-blocking bugs on ARM
targets will be fixed (if technically possible) before the actual
release.

There is no point in define ARM as a release-blocking target if there
is no commitment in actually fixing release bugs. What keeps ARM on
the bench is just the lack of general commitment. Somebody has to own
it, for real.

cheers,
--renato
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