[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] swr: bump minimum supported LLVM version to 5.0

[Marek Olšák]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 4:26 AM Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On 2018-06-26 03:49 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> > Good timing. I have a patch that removes LLVM 5.0 support from AMD
> > Mesa drivers. :)
>
> Keep in mind that we have to support at least two major versions of
> LLVM, otherwise we force our users to upgrade Mesa and LLVM in lockstep,
> which can be painful.
>

I'd like us to drop LLVM 6.0 support after 7.0 is released to remove the
codepath without 32bit pointers. I'm sure users will be fine and it will
move them to a better and faster version of the compiler.

Marek


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