[LLVMdev] PROPOSAL: Rename Target R600 -> AMDGPU

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 28, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Now that the 3.5 branch has been made, I would like to propose renaming
> the R600 target to AMDGPU.
> 
> R600 is the name of an AMDGPU GPU that was released about 8 years ago.
> The R600 backend supports this GPU and also all other GPUs which have
> been made since then.  When people see the name R600 they often assume that
> only the older GPU family is supported which is not true.

This makes a lot of sense to me,

-Chris