From: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
These combined LLVM+Rust toolchains are now available, thanks to Nathan
Chancellor (ClangBuiltLinux).
Thus introduce them in the Rust Quick Start guide.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
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Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
index cc3f11e0d441..6fe69a601134 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ under names like ``rustc``, ``rust-src``, ``rust-bindgen``, etc. However,
at the time of writing, they are likely not to be recent enough unless
the distribution tracks the latest releases.
+Prebuilt stable versions of LLVM+Rust are provided on `kernel.org
+<https://kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/rust/>`_. These are the same slim and fast
+LLVM toolchains from :ref:`Getting LLVM <getting_llvm>` with versions of Rust
+added to them that Rust for Linux supports, depending on the Linux version. Two
+sets are provided: the "latest LLVM" and "matching LLVM" (please see the link
+for more information).
+
To easily check whether the requirements are met, the following target
can be used::
base-commit: 97ab3e8eec0ce79d9e265e6c9e4c480492180409
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2.45.1