[LLVMdev] release procedure questions

[reed kotler]

I'm trying to understand how Mips will fit into the official release 
procedure.

There are two Mips compilers:
   1) The X86 resident llvm/clang compiler that can generate code for 
various Mips targets.
   2) The Mips resident compiler (on linux or bsd or other) which would 
generate code primarily for that same host.


How does this fit into the release structure?

We would like to make sure that the released X86 hosted Clang/LLVM 
compiler has been tested for all the Mips targets that we support.

We would like to produce a Mips hosted LLVM compiler for official LLVM 
distribution that can at least generate code for that same Mips host and 
probably
all Mips targets but most likely it would be beyond our resources to 
test that as a cross compiler to various other LLVM
targets. I.e. we can't tell if we can generate correct code the Hexagon 
processor beyond running whatever is in "make check".
Should we be building our Mips native compiler so that it only supports 
the Mips target for example; if that is all we can test?

I'm unclear exactly how we fit into this release process given what I 
have described above.

Tia.

Reed