[llvm-commits] RFC: Add R600/SI backend as an experimental target

[Eric Christopher]

On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 02:04:28PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Attached is a patch with an updated version of the R600/SI backend.  The
>>> same code can be found in the r600-review-v10 branch here:
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~tstellar/llvm/
>>> 
>>> Changes since last week's version include:
>>> + Fixes for tablegen'd register names
>>> + More improvements/features for Southern Islands GPUs.
>>> 
>>> I'm still hoping to get this accepted as an experimental backend, and I
>>> look forward to your comments.
>> 
>> Why don't you cut a branch in the repository and do your changes in there
>> for a few weeks so we can see how your code looks as you're
>> developing it etc?
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just created a new branch for the AMDGPU backend in the SVN repo at
> branches/R600, and I will begin pushing changes to that branch regularly.
> I'm hoping that this branch will help to transition the backend from the
> Mesa tree into the LLVM tree, so any feedback on the branch from LLVM
> developers would be appreciated.

Excellent. Glad to hear it and if I see anything I'll definitely send you mail.

-eric