[llvmlinux] PowerPC builds

[S Madhu]

We have a bunch of the Freescale boards that have a 3.x kernel support. It
is also integrated into the mainline.

Freescale bsp page is

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=SDKLINUX&fsrch=1

We are currently using this for a utm box and the kernel is pretty stable.
We use the p2040 processor variant. unfortunately it is only 32 bit.

Let me know know what I need to do next and I can try to get a build going.

I have  also asked IBM for a power loaner box but that may take a couple
of months to arrive.

Madhu


On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Charlebois, Mark wrote:

>  We have no one on the project yet working on PPC. Is the board/platform
> supported by the upstream kernel? If not do you have a public kernel tree
> for the board?
>
>  If you can point us to the kernel and the config to build we can help
> get you set up.
>
>  Then just send patches to this email for integration.
>
>  It would be great to add PPC support and testing to the project!
>
>  Mark
>
>  Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>
>
>
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> Subject: [llvmlinux] PowerPC builds
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>
> is anybody trying PowerPC builds ? I am specifically looking at
> Freescale's e5500/6500 family or IBM's Power 7 variant. I run a research
> program developing a Power compatible processor ( along withna virtualized
> linux running on top of secure hypervisor) and we are at a stage where we
> need to start working on the tool chain. Figured getting our hands dirty on
> Clang now would help us get used to it, since clang looks like a better
> option than Gcc for us. If nobody is doing it, we can give it a shot since
> we have both HW and free labor in the form of my grad students !
>
>  if the processor reaches a usable form, we will be releasing it into
> open source. It is a 64 bit design with multiple issue and Multi threading,
> so should match a core i5 in perf if tuned well. A big if there I must
> admit ! Supports 256 bit simd instructions also. Single core initially,
> may go to 4/8 if our funding holds up or if the open source community takes
> it up.
>
>  Madhu
>
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