Proposed extension to the "--offload-arch" option

[AaronBallman]

RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-proposed-extension-to-the-offload-arch-option/90790

[AaronBallman]

The Clang Area Team discussed this RFC at our Jul 16 meeting, the minutes can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13-68BCOt8kH5k_56fURBi7u7Ap97Z0EshgkJXDudbJM/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

We would like to hear thoughts from the offload working group on the new proposal and whether that's acceptable to them. Most of the concerns in the RFC were from offload folks, so we think that group is well-situated to help make a call.

Aaron posted a comment to the RFC saying this and we'll wait to hear back from the community: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-proposed-extension-to-the-offload-arch-option/90790/25

[AaronBallman]

The author will be out for 2-3 weeks on vacation, so we should expect this to be on hold for a bit longer without considering it to be abandoned: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-proposed-extension-to-the-offload-arch-option/90790/26

[AaronBallman]

The author is back and responded that the offload wg seems to be in favor: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-proposed-extension-to-the-offload-arch-option/90790/28

The offload Jul 8 2026 meeting minutes can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PAeEshxHCv22JDBCPA9GXGggLp0t7rsnD_jL04MBbzw/edit?usp=sharing and so I think this may be ready for the area team to call consensus on.