[llvm-dev] [RFC] Proposal for CIRCT incubator project (original) (raw)
Stephen Neuendorffer via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jul 7 17:33:55 PDT 2020
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Sure, I'll summarize with respect to the criterion in the document:
- Must be generally aligned with the mission of the LLVM project to advance compilers, languages, tools, runtimes, etc.
CIRCT is a compiler which is built around LLVM/MLIR. We anticipate building code generation for ASIC and FPGA backends along with specialized accelerators, while leveraging existing LLVM backends for processor targets.
- Must conform to the license, patent, and code of conduct policies laid out in this developer policy document.
Contributions are currently ApacheV2 licensed and we have adopted the general structure of the LLVM developer policies already, to the extent that we can as an external project.
- Must have a documented charter and development plan, e.g. in the form of a README file, mission statement, and/or manifesto.
See https://github.com/circt/circt and https://github.com/circt/circt/blob/master/docs/Charter.md
- Should conform to coding standards, incremental development process, and other expectations.
The project mostly consists of MLIR dialects and transformations following the MLIR standalone dialect example implemented using c++14 and FileCheck for regressions. We are currently using Github PRs for code review and a nifty CI system that caches the most recent LLVM build for good performance using github hosted builds. See https://github.com/circt/circt
- Should have a sense of the community that it hopes to eventually foster, and there should be interest from members with different affiliations / organizations.
We have weekly meetings with >20 people from Xilinx, Sifive, Microsoft, PNNL, ETH, EPFL, Cornell, and Stanford. Meeting minutes are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fOSRdyZR2w75D87yU2Ma9h2-_lEPL4NxvhJGJd-s5pk/edit#
- Should have a feasible path to eventually graduate as a dedicated top-level or sub-project within the LLVM monorepo <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project>.
I think this is very feasible from the perspective of code structure, but I would want to get to the point where we have stable APIs and useful end-to-end toolflows before advocating for that.
- Should include a notice (e.g. in the project README or web page) that the project is in ‘incubation status’ and is not included in LLVM releases (see suggested wording below).
We can easily add this if accepted by the community.
- Must be proposed through the LLVM RFC process, and have its addition approved by the LLVM community - this ultimately mediates the resolution of the “should” concerns above.
'[RFC]' indicated in the subject line. I assume that this doesn't yet qualify as a contentious decision. :)
Steve
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> wrote:
Thanks Steve! The incubator process just landed, it would be great to outline how CIRCT aligns with the new guidelines set out in that document. As you know, I’m personally very much in favor of this project landing, but am also have a conflict of interest, so I’d like to know what other community members think.
-Chris On Jul 4, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer via llvm-dev <_ _llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
For the past several months, members of the ‘CIRCT’ group have been working to begin adapting MLIR for hardware design. We believe that this area would benefit from good open source infrastructure enabling research and, eventually, the next generation of commercial tools. We have collected several dialects and envision a number of lowering flows using these dialects. We have reached the point where we are ready to share our ideas more widely and would like to be considered as an LLVM incubator project. Our code exists at https://github.com/circt as an out-of-tree MLIR project and our group charter can be found at https://github.com/circt/circt/blob/master/README.md. We have weekly discussions with a group of about 20 people from Xilinx, SiFive, Microsoft, PNNL, ETH Zurich, EPFL, Stanford, and Cornell, and welcome additional contributions. This project is still early and we see many elements as highly experimental. At the same time, we feel that the only way to vet these ideas is to build larger systems which will likely take some time and community investment. The LLVM incubator process would be a good way to help us organize this effort. Steve Neuendorffer Xilinx Research Labs
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