Clang 10 + Linux 5.6 Will Be Able To Build A Working s390 Kernel
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IBM System/390 interest in building the Linux kernel with Clang rather than GCC hasn't been on my radar until now when Clang 10 build support was just added to Linux 5.6 Git.
With the s390 patches for the Linux 5.6 merge window, Clang 10 can build the kernel for the s390 architecture. The few changes were done by IBM's Vasily Gorbik in making the necessary adjustments to satisfy the non-GNU compiler.
Clang has offered s390 support for a number of years albeit not talked about as much as other architectures. LLVM Clang 10.0 should be out by late February while Linux 5.6.0 will debut as stable around April.
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