[LLVMdev] About commit TILE-Gx backend to community repository and default disabled

[Tobias Grosser]

> > Hi Jiong,
>>
>> did you receive a full review by an LLVM committer who approved the
>> full patch set (not just individual ones) with some kind of "Looks
>> good to me"? This is the requirement Chris put for inclusion and only
>> after this has happened (and there are no major concerns found during
>> review) you should commit the back end.
>>
>> I am myself very supportive on getting this in, but I have the feeling
>> this did not yet happen. So I propose to not commit this backend
>> prematurely. (In case I missed something and this review already
>> happened, would you mind pointing me to the email and committer who
>> reviewed the backend)
>
> Hi Tobias,
>
> thanks for your reply, it's happy to receive more feedbacks.
>
> below are preivous community feedbacks,
>
> ===
> my first post to llvm-commit mailing list:
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130304/167737.html
>
>
> my second post to llvm-commit mailing list which split the big patch
> into 17 small parts:
>
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130311/167891.html
>
> Anton Korobeynikov, Jakob Stoklund Olesen, Joerg Sonnenberger given some
> feedback on coding style etc, all fixed.
>
> do you think it's OK ? please feel free to point out if there is
> anything missing.

Yes, I have seen this and it is a very good start. Some of our core 
contributors are giving you feedback to this back-end and you are 
addressing their remarks. This is great.

With Chris's reply you also got the general OK to upstream the patch, 
_AFTER_ the actual patches have been reviewed.

I am unsure to which extend Anton, Jakob and Joerg have reviewed your 
back-end, but from the emails I have seen, I am not convinced they are 
finished. I personally believe for a patch set of this size, you should
wait for an explicit email of one of the core contributors which states 
that the _full_ patch set has been reviewed and is good to commit or 
that an individual patch can be committed by itself.

All the best,
Tobias