Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
At Linaro Connect 2024, we announced that our next generation of Arm-branded toolchains would be fully open source. This is now available at https://github.com/arm/arm-toolchain, and our first releases will be available shortly after the OSS LLVM 20 release is complete. In this talk, I'll describe how this repository differs from open source LLVM, and what we're doing to minimise these differences. I'll introduce our two main toolchains - designed for Embedded and AArch64 Linux development respectively. I'll also cover what we're doing to make these releases easily available to all users on Arm, and our plans for LLVM in 2025.
After studying Computer Science in Manchester, Will started his career for a small startup developing binary translation tools. Their most famous tool was the original 'Rosetta', which allowed Mac users to run ppc applications on the new x86 Macs. Will has been at Arm for around 11 years. In that time, he has led the LLVM team responsible for developing SVE support, as well as launching Arm Compiler for Linux - our commercial LLVM-based toolchain focused on the High Performance Computing space. Around 4 years ago, he changed role to Technology Management, where he is now responsible for guiding and prioritising the roadmaps for all the GCC and LLVM-based toolchain development at Arm. Will lives in the English Lake District, with his wife and two sons.