[llvm-dev] Google’s TensorFlow team would like to contribute MLIR to the LLVM Foundation

[David Greene via llvm-dev]

Mehdi AMINI <joker.eph at gmail.com> writes:

> Of course by its nature, MLIR doesn't lend itself to concrete semantic
>> descriptions, though I would expect the affine dialect (and others) to
>> have documentation on par with the LLVM IR.
>
>
> Just last week I had to scout through the affine dialect "LangRef
> <https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir/blob/master/g3doc/Dialects/Affine.md>"
> for something, and I also felt that it is due for a refresh! It seemed a
> bit more than just BNF though, do you have example of what you would like
> to see expanded there?

I was referring to the base MLIR documentation with the BNF comment:

https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir/blob/master/g3doc/LangRef.md

Obviously there's more to it than that but I found this document pretty
dense.

> The current proposal includes all the content of
> https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir/ as-is.
> It does *not* include the TensorFlow specific dialects and other pieces
> here:
> https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorflow/compiler/mlir/

Looks great, thanks for making it more clear!

                    -David