Daniel Micay on Twitter: "@thruthfulas GNU assembler, the only part of the GNU toolchain that's still needed to build the Linux kernel for the Pixel 4 (5G), Pixel 5 and later. LLVM integrated assembler is already being used for everything else. Should be ready for usage for the Linux kernel soon, at least on arm64." / Twitter

The end of the GNU toolchain is getting close: github.com/GrapheneOS/ker github.com/GrapheneOS/ker GNU tools are almost completely purged from the Android Open Source Project other than GNU assembler still being needed for Linux. Maybe LLVM assembler will be usable next generation.

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GNU assembler, the only part of the GNU toolchain that's still needed to build the Linux kernel for the Pixel 4 (5G), Pixel 5 and later. LLVM integrated assembler is already being used for everything else. Should be ready for usage for the Linux kernel soon, at least on arm64.

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