[LLVMdev] R600 -> AMDGPU rename coming on Friday

[Tom Stellard]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:13:16AM +0200, Renato Golin wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I imagine you're going to wait until 3.6.2 final is out, to make it
> easier for emergency backports.
> 

Not quite, I'm going to do it just before the deadline to propose new patches
for 3.6.2.  It's unlikely I will need to backport anything after that,
and if I do, it may be a pain, but it won't be impossible.

-Tom

> Otherwise, looks good to me.
> 
> cheers,
> --renato
> 
> On 8 June 2015 at 22:41, Tom Stellard <tom at stellard.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm finally going to do the R600->AMDGPU rename this Friday.  This is something
> > I originally proposed last July [1], but had to put off in order to avoid
> > creating really bad merge headaches for some users.  The only change from
> > my original proposal is that I'll just keep the existing r600 and amdgcn
> > triples rather than adding a new one for amdgpu.  If anyone has any
> > strong objections to me doing this on Friday, please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> > [1] htttp://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-July/075151.html
> >
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