Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version
authorNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:15:55 +0000 (12:15 -0700)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:30:20 +0000 (16:30 -0600)
commit3519c4d6e08ea695658b961829d4a603acf8e28a
treeb89236ba1b7c138e88ab8babf445bc3865deec05
parenteb45fb2fb16df0050b9ae28f06095d72278959d9
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@google.com>
Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
Documentation/process/changes.rst