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Re: [PATCH][doc] Document cortex-a17 and cortex-a17.cortex-a7 -m{cpu,tune} options
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Kyrill Tkachov <kyrylo dot tkachov at arm dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: Ramana Radhakrishnan <Ramana dot Radhakrishnan at arm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:57:13 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][doc] Document cortex-a17 and cortex-a17.cortex-a7 -m{cpu,tune} options
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On 20/11/14 15:31, Kyrill Tkachov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As Joseph reminded, new -mcpu options should be documented in
> invoke.texi. This adds the documentation for the cortex-a17 and
> cortex-a17.cortex-a7 values.
> Ok to go in if the corresponding support patches posted earlier are
> accepted?
>
> Thanks,
> Kyrill
>
> 2014-11-19 Kyrylo Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com>
>
> * doc/invoke.texi (ARM Options): Document cortex-a17 and
> cortex-a17.cortex-a7 as permissible -mtune values.
>
>
Yes, this is fine.
R.
> a17-doc.patch
>
>
> diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
> index 785faec..a81cc16 100644
> --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
> +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
> @@ -12813,7 +12813,8 @@ Permissible names are: @samp{arm2}, @samp{arm250},
> @samp{arm1136j-s}, @samp{arm1136jf-s}, @samp{mpcore}, @samp{mpcorenovfp},
> @samp{arm1156t2-s}, @samp{arm1156t2f-s}, @samp{arm1176jz-s}, @samp{arm1176jzf-s},
> @samp{cortex-a5}, @samp{cortex-a7}, @samp{cortex-a8}, @samp{cortex-a9},
> -@samp{cortex-a12}, @samp{cortex-a15}, @samp{cortex-a53}, @samp{cortex-a57},
> +@samp{cortex-a12}, @samp{cortex-a15}, @samp{cortex-a17}, @samp{cortex-a53},
> +@samp{cortex-a57},
> @samp{cortex-r4},
> @samp{cortex-r4f}, @samp{cortex-r5}, @samp{cortex-r7}, @samp{cortex-m7},
> @samp{cortex-m4},
> @@ -12831,7 +12832,8 @@ Permissible names are: @samp{arm2}, @samp{arm250},
>
> Additionally, this option can specify that GCC should tune the performance
> of the code for a big.LITTLE system. Permissible names are:
> -@samp{cortex-a15.cortex-a7}, @samp{cortex-a57.cortex-a53}.
> +@samp{cortex-a15.cortex-a7}, @samp{cortex-a17.cortex-a7},
> +@samp{cortex-a57.cortex-a53}.
>
> @option{-mtune=generic-@var{arch}} specifies that GCC should tune the
> performance for a blend of processors within architecture @var{arch}.
>