Commit 526c5394 authored by Nathan Chancellor's avatar Nathan Chancellor Committed by Miguel Ojeda
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docs: rust: introduce the new kernel.org LLVM+Rust toolchains 



These combined LLVM+Rust toolchains are now available, thanks to Nathan
Chancellor (ClangBuiltLinux).

Thus introduce them in the Rust Quick Start guide.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240517170615.377786-1-ojeda@kernel.org


Co-developed-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
parent 549d3c2f

Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst

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at the time of writing, they are likely not to be recent enough unless

the distribution tracks the latest releases.



Prebuilt stable versions of LLVM+Rust are provided on `kernel.org

<https://kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/rust/>`_. These are the same slim and fast

LLVM toolchains from :ref:`Getting LLVM <getting_llvm>` with versions of Rust

added to them that Rust for Linux supports, depending on the Linux version. Two

sets are provided: the "latest LLVM" and "matching LLVM" (please see the link

for more information).



To easily check whether the requirements are met, the following target

can be used::