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

[Chandler Carruth]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Jiong Wang <kasulle at gmail.com> wrote:

> on 2013/3/23 1:52, Chris Lattner wrote:
>
>> On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:58 PM, Jiong Wang <jiwang at tilera.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> could you please comment on committing TILE-Gx backend into community?
>>>
>> Hi Jiong,
>>
>> I don't have any special advice here.  It sounds like the general
>> functionality level is high enough.  Taking it into mainline sounds great,
>> so long as it is reviewed by someone.
>>
>
>   thanks.
>
>   I will commit after rebasing & re-testing the code on latest llvm
> mainline. And I will follow http://llvm.org/docs/**HowToAddABuilder.html<http://llvm.org/docs/HowToAddABuilder.html>to setup a TILE-Gx buildbot.
>

No, read  what he said again: so long as it is reviewed by someone. That
hasn't happened yet, and you need it to happen before you commit.

As to how you can get the entire backend reviewed, I gave advice on that
front in my initial response to your initial email, the very first response
you got:

Unfortunately, this is a *huge* amount of code, and so it is likely to take
> quite some time to really get reviews on all of it. Please be patient in
> that regard.



The best thing you can do to help accelerate the process is to dive in and
> contribute to the shared parts of the open source project to help the
> current maintainers, and maybe even free up some of their time to review
> your patches. Because LLVM is open source, it is really important to the
> project for folks working on a specific target, backend, or application to
> also help share the ongoing maintenance and improvement costs of the core
> shared infrastructure in the compiler.


-Chandler
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