[llvm-dev] Proposal: Make the VE target official

[Simon Moll via llvm-dev]

On Mon, 2021-11-08 at 15:52 +0000, Renato Golin wrote:
> 
> 
> > The github repo is for reference only. If you look at our upstream
> > patch history, you will see that we submit small patches with tests
> > and
> > follow the review protocol.
> > 
> 
> 
> I know, that's not what I meant.
> 
> My point is that it's really hard to use that branch for reference
> because of all of the other non-VE stuff that is there too, bundled
> in a single merge commit. 
We merge upstream LLVM every now and then. There were feature-heavy
merges in the past ('develop' is the main branch). There is not much we
can do about the merge commits in retrospect. Is this a requirement? If
so, what would you like us to do?

> 
> cheers,
> --renato
- Simon