Alex Bradbury | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Alex Bradbury

Alex Bradbury

At Igalia since March 2022.

Cambridge (UK)

POSTS

Dec 9, 2024

Directly committing files to a separate git branch

Suppose you have some files you want to directly commit to a branch in your current git repository, doing so without perturbing your current branch. Why would you want to...

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Dec 3, 2024

Rootless cross-architecture debootstrap

As usual, let’s start by introducing the problem. Suppose you want to produce either a Debian-derived sysroot for cross-compilation, something you can chroot into, or even a full image you...

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Oct 15, 2024

Accessing a cross-compiled build tree from qemu-system

I’m cross-compiling a large codebase (LLVM and sub-projects such as Clang) and want to access the full tree - the source and the build artifacts from under qemu. This post...

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Oct 1, 2024

Arch Linux on remote server setup runbook

As I develop, I tend to offload a lot of the computationally heavy build or test tasks to a remote build machine. It’s convenient for this to match the distribution...

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Toots

And the survey is now closed - not by choice, but because something at Google seems to have marked it...

I’ve started a Bluesky starter pack of LLVM contributors/developers https://bsky.app/starter-pack/llvmweekly.org/3lbc6zdki232c - check it out and let me know if I’m...

Keeping my eye on this thread regarding transfer of ideas during the design of Rust and Swift - some good...

It’s now much, much easier to test LLVM buildbot changes locally (e.g. new workers/builders or other config changes) https://discourse.llvm.org/t/psa-recent-improvements-to-testing-llvm-zorg-buildbot-configs-prior-to-deployment/83111 -...

Commits

[LLVM] [RISCV] Enable merging of external globals by default (#117880)

[LLVM] [NFCI][test] Use lit.local.cfg in test/MachineVerifier/RISCV to gate …

[LLVM] Reapply [IR] Initial introduction of llvm.experimental.memset_pattern…

[LLVM] Revert "[IR] Initial introduction of llvm.experimental.memset_pattern…