Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM

Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by duskwuff on Monday March 21, 2022 @06:39PM (#30760673)

> E.g. would Linux accept code for drivers / architectures that are not available to the public?

Drivers is an unequivocal "yes". Here's an example -- from Google, in fact:

Architectures is less likely. But the pendulum has swung away from "making your own architecture" anyways.

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Re:Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM by b-rian on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @01:05PM (#30768672)

But hey, even with that example, the same mechanism got adapted to Chromebooks+Coreboot and now uses that same driver here:

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