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These combined LLVM+Rust toolchains are now available, thanks to Nathan
Chancellor (ClangBuiltLinux).

Thus introduce them in the Rust Quick Start guide.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240517170615.377786-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ under names like ``rustc``, ``rust-src``, ``rust-bindgen``, etc. However,
at the time of writing, they are likely not to be recent enough unless
the distribution tracks the latest releases.
Prebuilt stable versions of LLVM+Rust are provided on `kernel.org
<https://kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/rust/>`_. These are the same slim and fast
LLVM toolchains from :ref:`Getting LLVM <getting_llvm>` with versions of Rust
added to them that Rust for Linux supports, depending on the Linux version. Two
sets are provided: the "latest LLVM" and "matching LLVM" (please see the link
for more information).
To easily check whether the requirements are met, the following target
can be used::