lowRISC RISC-V LLVM status page

lowRISC has been pursuing the development of an upstream RISC-V LLVM backend. For an overview of this work as well as the current patch set, please see github.com/lowRISC/riscv-llvm.

An early status blog post provides a good overview of the development approach.

As of May 2018, the vast majority of these patches are now upstream and most users wishing to experiment with support for RISC-V in LLVM projects will likely be best served by building directly from the upstream repositories. You may prefer to follow this repository if you want to study how the backend is put together.

Immediate next steps:

• Week of 7th May: The patches in the lowRISC riscv-llvm repository will be refreshed.
• Week of 14th May: The repository will be updated with documentation on adding custom instructions, building upon a presentation at the Barcelona RISC-V Workshop.

The current patchset allows the entirety of the GCC torture suite to compile and run for {RV32I, RV32IM, RV32IFD} with or without the ‘C’ (compressed) extension. Additionally, all torture suite tests compile and run for RV64I at O1, O2, O3, and Os. MC-layer support is present for RV32IMAFDC+RV64IMAFDC, and codegen support for RV32IMFDC and RV64I.

The runner script includes a list of skipped tests. Tests which are architecture-specific or which exercise features not supported by Clang are skipped and not included in the totals.