On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:43:54AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > At some point in the near future, it will no longer be possible to build > Firefox on an Alpha unless someone takes up the gauntlet and puts > together a working Rust compiler. Rust uses the LLVM backend. There was once an experimental Alpha backend to LLVM. I am currently attempting to forward port it to more recent LLVM to see if it might be useful. It only supported EV6 and better CPUs which is a higher CPU standard than in Debian Alpha. I might get it back to EV56 (when BWX was introduced) and be able to make sub-architectures to optionally switch in MVI and CIX. But I have no intention of supporting anything without the BWX. And I doubt it will ever produce code the quality of gcc. I do have a patch that would switch the Debian gcc to produce code, by default, with BWX. I haven't ever got around to sending it to the gcc maintainer to switch over Debian Alpha to only support Alphas with BWX. But if I did that then if we ever got LLVM going again on Alpha there would be no baseline incompatibility. Cheers Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
