[llvm-dev] Target Acceptance Policy

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 01:12:40PM -0500, Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev wrote:
> On 8/4/2016 12:44 PM, Renato Golin via llvm-dev wrote:
> > I still think that's something for the code review.
> 
> Would the answer ever change?  Would the reviewers ever say "you should
> implement MC" for one target, and "not doing MC is fine" for another?

It can be formulated in a neutral way as "A new target should use all
applicatable LLVM infrastructure" or so. Not using MC makes sense for a
target that is by nature textual. Not using any of the ISel variants but
rolling custom code on the other hand would be considered a big question
mark.

Joerg