Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] kbuild: move vmlinux.a build rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_a

Nathan Chancellor
2026-03-16T18:00:00Z

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 05:27:01PM +0000, Rong Xu wrote:
> I think the problem was $(AR) mPi and llvm-ar <= 14 do work correctly
> in preserving the orders for "thin" archives without --thin.
>
> We can either
> (1) Bump the LLVM version to 15 and remove the --thin flag, or

The minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel was
bumped to 15 in 6.18 with commit 20c098928356 ("kbuild: Bump minimum
version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0"), so it seems like we
can just do this?

Cheers,
Nathan