[llvm] [NVPTX] Aggressively try to replace image handles with references (PR #119730)

[Artem Belevich via llvm-commits]

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@@ -55,19 +55,9 @@ NVPTXSubtarget::NVPTXSubtarget(const Triple &TT, const std::string &CPU,
                                const std::string &FS,
                                const NVPTXTargetMachine &TM)
     : NVPTXGenSubtargetInfo(TT, CPU, /*TuneCPU*/ CPU, FS), PTXVersion(0),
-      FullSmVersion(200), SmVersion(getSmVersion()), TM(TM),
+      FullSmVersion(200), SmVersion(getSmVersion()),
       TLInfo(TM, initializeSubtargetDependencies(CPU, FS)) {}
 
-bool NVPTXSubtarget::hasImageHandles() const {
-  // Enable handles for Kepler+, where CUDA supports indirect surfaces and
-  // textures
-  if (TM.getDrvInterface() == NVPTX::CUDA)
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Artem-B wrote:

Technically we didn't get rid of sm_20 yet, though it's practical usability is likely close to zero these days.
This may be worth mentioning in release notes as one of the first steps on the way to get rid of pre-kepler stuff.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/119730