[Mesa-dev] Releasing 18.0

[Marek Olšák]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On 2018-03-15 07:25 PM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net
> > <mailto:michel at daenzer.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2018-03-15 06:01 PM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> >     >
> >     > pick a3ac60e ac: move address space definitions to common code
> >     > pick 572d46d ac: Use the renumbered const address space for LLVM 7.
> >     > # Both are convenient for AMD devs testing 18.0 with LLVM master.
> The
> >     > latter depends on the former.
> >
> >     It's not realistic to keep the 18.0 branch working with LLVM SVN
> trunk
> >     in the long term, I'd suggest not even bothering.
> >
> >
> > It's as realistic as keeping master working. Since LLVM 7 will be frozen
> > in 5 months, it's very realistic that this or a future point release of
> > 18.0 will work with LLVM 7 forever.
>
> Even if somebody takes care of backporting all needed changes (and this
> doesn't become too expensive due to the code diverging between master
> and 18.0) and none are missed, there's a good chance it won't work at
> any given time, due to the delay between the changes landing in master
> and 18.0.
>

master might not work at any given time either. You are basically admitting
that supporting LLVM 7 in 18.0 is the same as master except for the small
delay, which confirms what I said. :)

Marek
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