[llvm-dev] Target Acceptance Policy

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:18:05AM +0100, Renato Golin via llvm-dev wrote:
> In recent discussions about accepting the Lanai back-end as official
> (built by default), there was the idea that we should have some
> official guidelines, if not rules, that all targets must (should?)
> follow when requesting to be added upstream, and later, to be
> officially supported.

There are two open questions for me here.

(1) The list says nothing about using (appropiate) LLVM infrastructure
like the MC subsystem. Should it be a requirements for (new) targets to
support the full source-to-object chain?

(2) What are the criterions for reviving targets? Consider the Alpha or
Itanium target.

Joerg