Re: [PATCH 01/10] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, at 20:57, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> s390 and x86 have required LLVM 15 since
>
>   30d17fac6aae ("scripts/min-tool-version.sh: raise minimum clang 
> version to 15.0.0 for s390")
>   7861640aac52 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0")
>
> respectively but most other architectures allow LLVM 13.0.1 or newer. In
> accordance with the recent minimum supported version of GCC bump that
> happened in
>
>   118c40b7b503 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30")
>
> do the same for LLVM to 15.0.0.
>
> Of the supported releases of Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE
> surveyed in evaluating this bump, this only leaves behind Debian
> Bookworm (14.0.6) and Ubuntu Jammy (14.0.0). Debian Trixie has 19.1.7
> and Ubuntu Noble has 18.1.3 (so there are viable upgrade paths) or users
> can use apt.llvm.org, which provides even newer packages for those
> distributions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>