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

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Aug 18, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> On 18 August 2016 at 15:45, Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org> wrote:
>> Thanks, I didn't realise nobody was running a public buildbot already
>> that built all experimental archs - though of course that makes sense.
>> In that case I'll prioritise getting something set up.
> 
> I just went through the previous discussions about noisy buildbots
> again. One of the outcomes from that discussion was the setting up of
> the "silent staging buildbot" at lab.llvm.org:8014/ which sounds
> perfect for this case. It seems to me the ideal approach would be to
> add a silent bot that builds RISC-V. Perhaps even better, one that
> builds all experimental architectures.

As a maintainer of your own Experimental backend, you’re likely be the only one looking at your silent bot, building all the experimental targets means that when (for instance) the AVR backend is broken by an API change, your build will fail till the AVR folks fix it.
You may want to limit the number of `false positive` in build break and only build RISC instead.

— 
Mehdi



> 
> If there's someone out there who thinks this would be useful and has
> spare computing power and already has a working setup to clone (i.e.
> the marginal cost for you of running one more buildslave is small)
> that would be a very welcome contribution. Otherwise, I'll try to get
> something set up some time in the next week or two.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Alex
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