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From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:07:08 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/llvm: Add a section about supported architectures
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
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        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
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        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 5:31 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:34:47PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > The most common question around building the Linux kernel with clang is
> > "does it work?" and the answer has always been "it depends on your
> > architecture, configuration, and LLVM version" with no hard answers for
> > users wanting to experiment. LLVM support has significantly improved
> > over the past couple of years, resulting in more architectures and
> > configurations supported, and continuous integration has made it easier
> > to see what works and what does not.
> >
> > Add a section that goes over what architectures are supported in the
> > current kernel version, how they should be built (with just clang or the
> > LLVM utilities as well), and the level of support they receive. This
> > will make it easier for people to try out building their kernel with
> > LLVM and reporting issues that come about from it.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
>
> Jonathan, did you need anything else from me on this, or does Masahiro
> need to pick this up?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan


Now I applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks for the reminder.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada