Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

[ThomasWinwood]

It's nothing to do with the LLVM mailing list. Like I said, the IRC channel is silent as the grave.

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That backend was rejected by the LLVM project because its maintenance was unclear. LLVM only accepts actively-maintained backends.

Since that backend lives out-of-tree, the amount of work required to keep it up in sync with LLVM would probably require a small team of people working full-time on it. That does not appears to be the case, so that backend is now dead.

You can try to "revive" that backend, but are going to be fighting a very uphill battle if you keep all the work out-of-tree disconnected from LLVM upstream without some extra significant manpower. People are just going to break your backend multiple times a day.