[Mesa-maintainers] AMD RadeonSI: Removing support for old LLVM

[Emil Velikov]

On 4 July 2018 at 00:42, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For all AMD RadeonSI users, I plan to make the following changes to
> LLVM requirements:
>
> Mesa 18.2 will require LLVM 6.0.
> Mesa 19.0 will require LLVM 7.0.
>
> Are there any concerns?
>
Thanks Marek.

Adding release dates to provide better perspective. I'm impartial on the topic.

 - Mesa 18.2.0 ETA Aug/Sept 2018, LLVM 6.0.0 Mar 2018
 - Mesa 19.0 ETA Feb/Mar 2019, LLVM 7.0.0 ETA Sept 2018

In other words: LLVM released 6 months prior will be required.

HTH
Emil