We plan on using these dialects "natively" as part of the npcomp backend
contract, and provide feedback to evolve them in IREE. Roughly speaking,
we can consider these dialects as "what's missing from upstream that we
think belongs in the general abstraction layer that npcomp's backend
contract targets".
We integrate them by just copying the relevant directory from the IREE
source tree (with `build_tools/update_iree_dialects.sh`). This avoids
adding IREE as a submodule, which is way too heavyweight (including
IREE itself, another copy of LLVM, TensorFlow, ...) and would give the
false impression of a source dependency rather than the lightweight (and
eventually versioned/stabilized) IR-level compatibility that we strive
for.
Sean Silva