Chimera Linux is a Linux distribution from 2021 that builds its kernels with Clang. Google transitioned its data center fleet to run Clang built kernels in 2021, and Meta did so as well in 2022. Meta talked about this at LPC 2022 at a talk titled Kernel Live Patching at Scale. These were important milestones for building the kernel with Clang. Making note of them helps improve confidence in the project. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> Co-developed-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Cc: Daniel Kolesa <q66@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxxxx> --- For Bernd Helmle! Changes v1 -> v2: * pick up RB tags. * switch signed-off-by to co-developed-by, as per Nathan. * restore `<` I dropped accidentally in v1, as per kernel test robot. Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst index 6b2bac8e9ce0..bfb51685073c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst @@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ such as GCC and binutils. Ongoing work has allowed for `Clang <https://clang.llvm.org/>`_ and `LLVM <https://llvm.org/>`_ utilities to be used as viable substitutes. Distributions such as `Android <https://www.android.com/>`_, `ChromeOS -<https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os>`_, and `OpenMandriva -<https://www.openmandriva.org/>`_ use Clang built kernels. `LLVM is a -collection of toolchain components implemented in terms of C++ objects -<https://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html>`_. Clang is a front-end to LLVM that -supports C and the GNU C extensions required by the kernel, and is pronounced -"klang," not "see-lang." +<https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os>`_, `OpenMandriva +<https://www.openmandriva.org/>`_, and `Chimera Linux +<https://chimera-linux.org/>`_ use Clang built kernels. Google's and Meta's +datacenter fleets also run kernels built with Clang. + +`LLVM is a collection of toolchain components implemented in terms of C++ +objects <https://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html>`_. Clang is a front-end to LLVM +that supports C and the GNU C extensions required by the kernel, and is +pronounced "klang," not "see-lang." Clang ----- -- 2.39.1.519.gcb327c4b5f-goog
