Nick Desaulniers

Ever wondered how the LLVM project and community works? Want to get some advice on how to most effectively contribute? Now is your chance at FOSDEM to ask experienced developers directly. This panel will host a number of experienced LLVM developers, answering any relevant questions from the audience.

In case questions from the audience do not fill the entire slot, a set of prepared questions focussed on how to get started working with and contributing to LLVM will be raised for the panelists to answer.

The panel will consist of the following experienced contributors to LLVM: Kristof Beyls, Peter Smith, Jeroen Dobbelaere, Nick Desaulniers

Other people: Kristof Beyls Peter Smith Jeroen Dobbelaere

The Linux kernel codebase has co-evolved with GCC and binutils over its lifetime, but LLVM is now capable of producing production ready Linux kernels. Come learn what some of the challenges were in porting the codebase from GCC/binutils to Clang/LLVM, and what the latest efforts are in both codebases to work towards this goal.

The Linux kernel codebase has co-evolved with GCC and binutils over its lifetime, but LLVM is now capable of producing production ready Linux kernels. Come learn what some of the challenges were in porting the codebase from GCC/binutils to Clang/LLVM, and what the latest efforts are in both codebases to work towards this goal.

We plan to cover some of the previous challenges, current challenges, issue tracker, various continuous integration setups, topics of future interest, usage in production, and how folks interested in helping out can participate. This talk will be from a kernel developer's (slash recent LLVM contributor's) perspective.