Re: Bountysource campaign to complete the M680x0 LLVM backend
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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On 4/6/20 6:48 PM, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 01:09:30AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> We created a Bountysource campaign [1] to support the finalization of the >> M680x0 LLVM backend that was initially written by Artyom Goncharov [2]. >> >> Completing the LLVM backend would allow us to support Rust on m68k and >> more. The BSD community would get a C/C++ compiler for m68k with >> a permissive license. > > The LLVM community isn't going to let it get put into the tree unless there > are people to support the thing going forward. They don't carry unmaintained > backends as a general rule no matter how complete they are. Yes, I'm aware of this situation. I have actually noted that in the Github issue. > Is there a plan for someone to maintain the thing? Otherwise you've got > a fork of LLVM forever. One of the potential developers to work on the backend might be willing to take over maintainership. I have also reached out to upstream to discuss this particular issue and I'm trying to find a solution to get it merged upstream. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913