llvm 3.7 for rawhide and then f23

[David Airlie]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh at redhat.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Saturday, 19 September, 2015 1:17:45 AM
> Subject: Re: llvm 3.7 for rawhide and then f23
> 
> On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 00:16 -0400, David Airlie wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So I've been updating rawhide to llvm 3.7 upstream, so we can get
> > OpenGL 4.1 support on the radeonsi GPUs.
> > 
> > The two depends on llvm I don't control/know about were julia and
> > pocl, I've done my best to make them work,
> > pocl I've rebased to git, which seems to be upstream advice
> > julia I've updated to the latest in the 0.4 branch and had to move
> > some tests to the not working on i686 list.
> > 
> > Once the builds complete, I'll get rel-eng to tag the whole lot over
> > into rawhide. Then I'll repeat for Fedora 23 some time next week and
> > file an update.
> > 
> 
> 
> Given that we are now post-Beta for F23, it seems a little late in the
> cycle to be introducing a new llvm runtime. Is it guaranteed to be
> backwards-compatible?

It's llvm, there is never a good time to upgrade it and no llvm release is backwards compatible.

Dave.