Re: Clang arm64 build is broken

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:36 AM Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 20/04/18 17:30, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:13 AM Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >> Clang isn't
> >> really supported to build the arm64 kernel anyway
> >
> > Can you expand on this?  There are millions of arm64 devices shipping
with
> > Clang built Linux kernels.

> How many of these devices run a full-featured mainline kernel?

> Sure, Android is building the kernel with clang, but that's with a pile
> of out of tree patches. At that point, I'm not sure we're talking about
> the same arm64 kernel.

Do you recommend that we only work with ARM licensed SoC vendors with no
out of tree patches?

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers