[clang] Add SPIRV support to HIPAMD toolchain (PR #75357)
Yaxun Liu via cfe-commits
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Thu Dec 14 07:14:25 PST 2023
yxsamliu wrote:
> > > > Is generic the best name here? I feel like that's going to be heavily overloaded. I'd much prefer a new architecture that just treats "SPIR-V" as a single architecture. E.g. `--offload-arch=spirv` or something.
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> > For HIPAMD toolchain, `--offload-arch=generic` and `--offload-arch=spirv` does not make much difference. However, I understand for OpenMP toolchain `--offload-arch=generic` is probably too ambiguous and `--offload-arch=spirv` is better. I can change it to `spirv`.
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> Perhaps we should consider prefixing it in some way (e.g. `hip-spirv` or `amd-spirv`) that leaves the door open for some special handling (enable a particular set of extensions only for amdgpu targeting SPIRV, try to deal with missing builtins etc.) / flexibility?
I think amd-spirv may be a good choice since spirv itself is ambiguous about which HIP toolchain to choose since there are two HIP toolchains that support SPIRV: HIPAMD and HIPSPV.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75357
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