[Openmp-dev] Removing liboffload from repository

[Jonas Hahnfeld via Openmp-dev]

Gone in r335069. I've tried to update www/index.html to point to 
'libomptarget/', but maybe we should add some more details about the 
library.

Regards,
Jonas

On 2018-06-19 19:29, Churbanov, Andrey wrote:
> Sure, I am OK with this cleanup.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonas Hahnfeld [mailto:hahnjo at hahnjo.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 8:20 PM
> To: Peyton, Jonathan L <jonathan.l.peyton at intel.com>; Churbanov,
> Andrey <Andrey.Churbanov at intel.com>
> Cc: Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>; Narayanaswamy, Ravi
> <ravi.narayanaswamy at intel.com>; openmp-dev (openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org)
> <openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: Re: [Openmp-dev] Removing liboffload from repository
> 
> Andrey, are you ok as the code owner?
> 
> Jonas
> 
> On 2018-06-14 19:14, Peyton, Jonathan L wrote:
>> I think you can go ahead and remove it.
>> 
>> -- Johnny
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Openmp-dev [mailto:openmp-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf
>> Of Hal Finkel via Openmp-dev
>> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2018 9:25 AM
>> To: Narayanaswamy, Ravi <ravi.narayanaswamy at intel.com>; Jonas Hahnfeld
>> <hahnjo at hahnjo.de>; openmp-dev (openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org)
>> <openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Openmp-dev] Removing liboffload from repository
>> 
>> 
>> On 06/12/2018 11:34 AM, Narayanaswamy, Ravi via Openmp-dev wrote:
>>> I agree.
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>>  -Hal
>> 
>>> In our last LLVM Multi-company offload meeting I asked if it can be
>>> removed and nobody had any objection.
>>> Thanks
>>> Ravi
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Openmp-dev [mailto:openmp-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Jonas Hahnfeld via Openmp-dev
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 9:30 AM
>>> To: openmp-dev at lists.llvm.org
>>> Subject: [Openmp-dev] Removing liboffload from repository
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to propose removing liboffload (the 'offload/' directory)
>>> from the openmp repository.
>>> 1) This is an old dump from openmprtl.org which was never updated
>>> (The current version doesn't even build / work with newer software
>>> stacks!), even though Intel continued doing newer releases.
>>> 2) The library was never integrated into LLVM's build system, you
>>> have to manually call 'make' with the right parameters.
>>> 3) The library is meant for Intel's Xeon Phi Knights Corner
>>> coprocessor.
>>> AFAIK there only were variants of Knights Landing that serve as host
>>> processor (coprocessor cards were announced but never released). As
>>> of last year, even its successor Knights Hill has been declared dead
>>> and the whole line is now discontinued.
>>> 
>>> With libomptarget getting more mature it's quite confusing for our
>>> users that there are two libraries apparently doing offloading.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> Jonas
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>> Computing Facility Argonne National Laboratory
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