Alex Bradbury | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Alex Bradbury

Alex Bradbury

At Igalia since March 2022.

Cambridge (UK)

POSTS

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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Jul 1, 2024

pwr

Summary pwr (paced web reader) is a script and terminal-centric workflow I use for keeping up to date with various sources online, shared on the off chance it’s useful to...

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May 12, 2024

Notes from the Carbon panel session at EuroLLVM 2024

Last month I had the pleasure of attending EuroLLVM which featured a panel session on the Carbon programming language. It was recorded and of course we all know automated transcription...

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Toots

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 -...

LLVM Discourse posts seem to be fairly incompletely indexed by Google. I don’t know whether this is just part of...

Commits

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

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

[LLVM] [IR] Initial introduction of llvm.experimental.memset_pattern (#97583)

[LLVM] [docs] Add blank line before bulletpoint list to fix HowToAddABuilder