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Commit 3519c4d6 authored by Nick Desaulniers's avatar Nick Desaulniers Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version



Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.

We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
time.  Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
to the past 3 major versions.  LLVM tends to support one major release
and one minor release every six months.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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