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		duskwuff on March 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM > 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: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e561bc45920aade3f8a... Architectures is less likely. But the pendulum has swung away from "making your own architecture" anyways.

b-rian on March 22, 2022 [–]

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

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d384d6f43d1ec3f1225...

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