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Documentation/llvm: add Chimera Linux, Google and Meta datacenters

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Chimera Linux is a Linux distribution from 2021 that builds its kernels
with Clang.

Google transitioned its data center fleet to run Clang built kernels in
2021, and Meta did so as well in 2022.  Meta talked about this at LPC
2022 at a talk titled Kernel Live Patching at Scale.

These were important milestones for building the kernel with Clang.
Making note of them helps improve confidence in the project.

Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ such as GCC and binutils. Ongoing work has allowed for `Clang
<https://clang.llvm.org/>`_ and `LLVM <https://llvm.org/>`_ utilities to be
used as viable substitutes. Distributions such as `Android
<https://www.android.com/>`_, `ChromeOS
<https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os>`_, and `OpenMandriva
<https://www.openmandriva.org/>`_ use Clang built kernels. `LLVM is a
collection of toolchain components implemented in terms of C++ objects
<https://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html>`_. Clang is a front-end to LLVM that
supports C and the GNU C extensions required by the kernel, and is pronounced
"klang," not "see-lang."
<https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os>`_, `OpenMandriva
<https://www.openmandriva.org/>`_, and `Chimera Linux
<https://chimera-linux.org/>`_ use Clang built kernels. Google's and Meta's
datacenter fleets also run kernels built with Clang.
`LLVM is a collection of toolchain components implemented in terms of C++
objects <https://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html>`_. Clang is a front-end to LLVM
that supports C and the GNU C extensions required by the kernel, and is
pronounced "klang," not "see-lang."
Clang
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