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Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:25:51 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] 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: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
---
Note to reviewers: working remote, I'm having trouble testing/verifying
that I have the RST links wired up correctly; I would appreciate it if
someone is able to `make htmldocs` and check
Documentation/output/process/changes.html properly links to
Documentation/output/kbuild/llvm.html.

 Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst     |  2 ++
 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
index 2aac50b97921..70ec6e9a183b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _kbuild_llvm:
+
 ==============================
 Building Linux with Clang/LLVM
 ==============================
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index ee741763a3fc..6c580ef9f2a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
         Program        Minimal version       Command to check the version
 ====================== ===============  ========================================
 GNU C                  4.9              gcc --version
+Clang/LLVM (optional)  10.0.1           clang --version
 GNU make               3.81             make --version
 binutils               2.23             ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
@@ -68,6 +69,15 @@ GCC
 The gcc version requirements may vary depending on the type of CPU in your
 computer.
 
+Clang/LLVM (optional)
+---------------------
+
+The latest formal release of clang and LLVM utils (according to
+`releases.llvm.org <https://releases.llvm.org>`_) are supported for building
+kernels. Older releases aren't gauranteed to work, and we may drop workarounds
+from the kernel that were used to support older versions. Please see additional
+docs on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
+
 Make
 ----
 
-- 
2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d-goog

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