[Mesa-stable] mesa-10.6: LLVM/Clang v3.7 fixes (gallivm)

[Emil Velikov]

On 14 September 2015 at 10:36, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4 September 2015 at 19:57, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I compiled a toolchain based on LLVM/Clang v3.7.0 today and tested it
>>> with an updated version of my Linux Graphics driver stack (see
>>> attached logs).
>>>
>>> Here on Ubuntu/precise AMD64 I required two patches (see attached 0001
>>> and 0002) post-mesa-10.6.5+ to build it successfully.
>>> Feel free to cherry-pick them to 10.6 Git branch.
>>>
>> Ftr the attached patches are master commits
>> 147ffd48166d851341cadd12de98895f32ec25a2 gallivm: Do not use
>> NoFramePointerElim with LLVM 3.7.
>> 09d6243aed016eed4518435c9885275dbb6d2aa9 gallivm: Workaround LLVM PR23628.
>>
>> Both of which seems like trivial and non-evasive changes imho, so
>> unless there are any objections I'll scoop them.
>> Iirc on the radeon side, more work is needed. So picking these won't
>> imply that building mesa 10.6.x with llvm 3.7 is officially supported
>> and/or tested. But a bit of "try it, if you're crazy enough" :-)
>>
>> Thanks Sedat !
>>
>
> Yes, both patches where cherry-picked from Git master for mesa-10.6.
>
> What does your statement means in the end...
> Will those 2 patches go into mesa-10.6 (be included in mesa v10.6.8)?
>
It means two things
 - they will (are) picked, considering the lack of objections.
 - building with/against llvm 3.7 is entirely at your own risk and not
officially supported :-)

I can see how my earlier reply was a bit confusing, hopefully thing
one is a tad clearer.

-Emil