[PATCH] D74538: [doc] Clarify responsibility for fixing experimental target problems

Thu Feb 13 10:24:26 PST 2020

rupprecht accepted this revision.
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.

Thanks James!

In D74538#1874417 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D74538#1874417>, @thakis wrote:

> Fine with me, but I think the more interesting conversation to have is one about the future of the AVR target. The AVR target is the only experimental target that currently exists.
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> It's been in the tree for a while now, so it should either become stable or move out of tree again.
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> The last commit by the code owner is from July 2019. I don't have any relation with the AVR target except that I have a bot that builds with all targets enabled. Nobody seems to be fixing AVR issues, and `git log llvm/lib/Target/AVR` only shows global refactoring changes modifying that directory.
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> So this kind of suggests "remove the AVR target".
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> On the other hand, e.g. XCore is in even worse shape (code owner inactive since Aug 2014) and that's a non-experimental target. And it's not like AVR needs all that much maintenance. So we could make it non-experimental as well.
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> I don't have an opinion on either. But it seems like experimental targets shouldn't stay experimental for many years.

Yes, I don't have an opinion either way, but just to be clear, this is an orthogonal discussion that's unrelated to this patch. I'd recommend starting a thread on llvm-dev.

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