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

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-11-04 4:12 a.m., Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 10:58 AM Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> There are no concerns from distro vendors. We are good to go:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-maintainers/2018-July/thread.html

Ah, thanks for reaching out to them. No more concerns from me then.


> Having users upgrade to LLVM 7.0 can be a good thing (for quality &
> performance).

I agree.


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