diff --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst --- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst @@ -570,9 +570,15 @@ of reasons. For these reasons, new targets are *always* added as *experimental* until -they can be proven stable, and later moved to non-experimental. The difference -between both classes is that experimental targets are not built by default -(need to be added to -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD at CMake time). +they can be proven stable, and later moved to non-experimental. The differences +between both classes are: + +* Experimental targets are not built by default (they need to be explicitly + enabled at CMake time). + +* Test failures, bugs, and build breakages that only appear when the + experimental target is enabled, caused by changes unrelated to the target, are + the responsibility of the community behind the target to fix. The basic rules for a back-end to be upstreamed in **experimental** mode are: