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        <th>Issue</th>
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            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/79304>79304</a>
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        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [Offload] Develop a new API for the "plugins"
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      <th>Labels</th>
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      <th>Assignees</th>
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      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          jdoerfert
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</table>

<pre>
    The plugins roughly abstract over the vendor dependent libraries and provide a common interface. This is then used by OpenMP and other languages to provide language specific features.

The plugins are valuable as a generic runtime for offloading, but they are currently not exported and the API is ill-defined. We should rewrite the plugin interface and export it. 

Example of a potential API is at https://gist.github.com/jhuber6/7873e2e74df91039ea549481b7c53cba.
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