[llvm-dev] [RFC] RISC-V backend

Matt Arsenault via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Aug 17 12:04:01 PDT 2016


On 08/17/2016 09:33 AM, James Y Knight via llvm-dev wrote:
>
> I haven't actually been following the story of the AVR backend at all, 
> but afaik the current status is that there's a partially completed AVR 
> backend in trunk that's been under construction for a year or so, and 
> a functional backend in another repository, which people actually use. 
> However that situation came to pass, it seems a very unfortunate state 
> to be in, and it would be sad if this rewrite of the RISC-V backend 
> ended up with the upstream repository having the same mostly-unusable 
> status for RISC-V.

The problem is nobody is reviewing it. I've reviewed a number of 
patches, but the current set of ones up for review are for MC areas I'm 
not the best person for

-Matt



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