[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] amd: remove support for LLVM 6.0

[Samuel Pitoiset]

On 11/2/18 3:58 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 2018-11-02 10:23 a.m., Samuel Pitoiset wrote:
>> User are encouraged to switch to LLVM 7.0 released in September 2018.
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> At least two major releases of LLVM should always be supported,
> otherwise we force our downstreams and users to upgrade LLVM and Mesa in
> lockstep.

The main problem is that LLVM 6 is buggy in many ways (GPU hangs, 
rendering issues). We have encouraged people to not use it since months, 
at least for RADV and DXVK users.

Also, I assume LLVM 8 to be released in March 2019 like mesa 19.0, so 
two major releases will be supported.

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