Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!

[Brendan Conoboy]

On 07/02/2013 02:49 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Yes... that would be great if the LLVM maintainer would step up and
> help out with the issues.... oops we don't have one of those [1]!
> Getting any form of support for LLVM on ARM has been like pushing shit
> up hill and has been an issue for the 2.5 years I've been working on
> ARM and I get the feeling that the people that deal with it do it for
> the bits that affects them because they have to not because they want
> to. Not pretty but we're severely limited by resources and ability and
> there's a reason we don't currently ship the a gnome build. There was
> also an upstream proposal in mesa to refactor mesa to better support
> EGL but that appears to have died out so we're screwed there as
> well...

If anybody would like to step up and take a swing at the LLVM on ARM 
issue it would be much appreciated.  Some of the BZ history is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803433

Perhaps more importantly, we have an upstream bug filed here:

http://www.llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15557

It's been sitting in the upstream queue as new since March- no attention 
has been given to it.

As Fedora has dropped soft float support on ARM, even a workaround like 
"make the default ARM ABI hard float" would likely be enough to make 
llvmpipe, and consequently gnome, operational again.

Meanwhile, if somebody has an example besides gnome where ARM coverage 
is falling short of x86 I'm all ears. 999 out of 1000 is pretty good.

Cheers,

-- 
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com