Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9

A number of x86-related changes were sent out today for the first full day of the Linux 5.9 merge window...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-x86-Changes

[tildearrow]

The original UV supercomputer support is eliminated but later generations of support remains.

Mean do you what?

[Michael]

Mean do you what?

UV 2, etc. Cleared up the text though to make that more clear, thanks.

[tildearrow]

UV 2, etc. Cleared up the text though to make that more clear, thanks.

What I mean is, it sounds a bit unusual. Shouldn't it be something like "support for later generations"?

[ssokolow]

x86/asm has changes to build the Linux x86 32-bit kernel with Clang rather than GCC, complementing the existing support for x86_64 and AArch64.

Chalk another one up for being able to give those "It's GNU/Linux, not Linux" twits the finger.

[torsionbar28]

Chalk another one up for being able to give those "It's GNU/Linux, not Linux" twits the finger.

Don't worry, it will all become MS/Linux soon enough.

[ssokolow]

Don't worry, it will all become MS/Linux soon enough.

Yeah, no thanks. Microsoft can Microsoft all they want, but even they probably don't have the clout to get humans habituated to saying that many syllables.

[starshipeleven]

Don't worry, it will all become MS/Linux soon enough.

You mean MS/GNU? That's more or less what WSL is.

[AsuMagic]

Just realized something - compiling the Linux kernel with clang could eventually mean LTO across C and Rust, since clang and Rust both use LLVM IR.
AFAIK, Mozilla has been doing this on Firefox for C++ <-> Rust for a while now.
I guess the usefulness would depend on how Rust really ends up getting used, and on how much Rust code would rely on the C FFI.
(I'm not a kernel dev though. No idea if I'm missing something.)

Unrelated. Can the low tier trolls here leave and never come back?

[ssokolow]

You mean MS/GNU? That's more or less what WSL is.

Technically, GNU/MS. The ordering is significant because the slash is meant to be read as "on" or "over", like 1/2 being "1 over 2" in math.