On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:02:06 -0700
Josh Stone <jist...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/12/2016 11:45 PM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > How does the new language (and compiler) affect secondary
> > architectures? Will it just work?
> 
> Rust has their own tier system of architecture support:
> 
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/getting-started.html#platform-support
> 
> Only i686 and x86_64 are Tier 1 at this time.
> 
> Tier 2 gets a little spottier, but at least armv7-hf and aarch64 do
> have rustc and cargo to bootstrap from.  For ppc64/le and mipsel,
> we'd have to prepare our own cross-compiled rustc and cargo for
> bootstrap.  Then mips64el and s390x are completely missing.

sad, time to ask whether IBM hasn't already been cooking something
internally ... LLVM itself has s390x support for quite some time.


                Dan

> 
> 
> If folks would like to see better Rust support for their favorite
> architecture, it seems there are no real blockers* -- they just need
> to pitch in.  Get it working, then add it to rust-buildbot to stay
> working.
> 
> https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/suggestion-make-real-world-tier-1-platforms-at-least-tier-2/3492/14
> 
> (*no real blockers except for LLVM support, I should say)
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