2023 ClangBuiltLinux Retrospective

Just like I did last year, I want to do a yearly report/retrospective for 2023 to look at what I (and the whole ClangBuiltLinux team in some cases) accomplished. I do monthly reports but looking at a high level across the year helps put things into perspective and drive improvements going into the new year. Linux kernel This year, I had 129 commits accepted into maintainer trees (not all will be merged into mainline in 2023 but they were written and added in maintainer trees in 2023). They can be viewed on the web or by running the following command in an up-to-date Linux repository locally: ...

December 28, 2023 · 32 min · Nathan Chancellor

December 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Miscellaneous fixes and improvements: These are fixes and improvements that don’t fit into a particular category but are important to ClangBuiltLinux. RISC-V: Disable DWARF5 with known broken LLVM versions (v2) Stable backports and fixes: It is important to make sure that the stable trees are as free from issues as possible, as those are the trees that devices and users use; for example, Android and Chrome OS regularly merge from stable, so if there is a problem that will impact those trees that we fixed in mainline, it should be backported. ...

December 28, 2023 · 4 min · Nathan Chancellor

November 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

November 30, 2023 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor

October 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

October 31, 2023 · 6 min · Nathan Chancellor

September 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

September 29, 2023 · 4 min · Nathan Chancellor

August 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

August 31, 2023 · 6 min · Nathan Chancellor

July 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

July 31, 2023 · 6 min · Nathan Chancellor

June 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

June 30, 2023 · 6 min · Nathan Chancellor

May 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Warning fixes: These are patches to fix various warnings that appear with LLVM. I used to go into detail about the different warnings and what they mean, but the important takeaway for this section is that the kernel should build warning free, as all developers should be using CONFIG_WERROR, which will turn these all into failures. Maybe these should be in the build failures section… ...

May 31, 2023 · 4 min · Nathan Chancellor

April 2023 ClangBuiltLinux Work

Occasionally, I will forget to link something from the mailing list in this post. To see my full mailing list activity (patches, reviews, and reports), you can view it on lore.kernel.org. Linux kernel patches Build errors: These are patches to fix various build errors that I found through testing different configurations with LLVM or were exposed by our continuous integration setup. The kernel needs to build in order to be run :) ...

April 28, 2023 · 5 min · Nathan Chancellor