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Subject: Re: Clang arm64 build is broken
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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On 20/04/18 17:30, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:13 AM Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> 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.

Thanks,

	M.
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