[LLVMdev] Announcing 3.1 Release Branch Date!

[Bill Wendling]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jim Grosbach <grosbach at apple.com> wrote:

> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:46 AM, 陳韋任 <chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
> 
>>> By the way, we are looking for ARM testers. There was a lot of interest in the 3.0 release for an ARM release. We will try to do one this release on a trial basis. We are looking for ARMv7 cortex-a8 and cortex-a9 on Linux.
>> 
>> We have two pandard board (ARMv7 cortex-a9) and perhaps one ARMv6
>> 4-cores board. Do we do a native compile or cross compile for the ARM
>> platform?
>> 
> 
> My personal preference is to prioritize qualifying as a cross compiler first and a hosted compiler second. I have no problems with doing both other than the additional testing resources required, though.
> 
I agree with Jim. While having a native ARM compiler might be nice, it's not something I want to embark on for this release.

-bw