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[PATCH][wwwdocs] Document support for Cortex-A72
- From: Matthew Wahab <matthew dot wahab at arm dot com>
- To: gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:19:29 +0000
- Subject: [PATCH][wwwdocs] Document support for Cortex-A72
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
Hello,
This patch documents in gcc-5/changes.html the addition of support for
the Cortex-A72 to the ARM and the AArch64 backends.
Tested by checking the updated webpage in firefox.
Matthew
Index: htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff --unified -r1.77 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 2 Feb 2015 08:49:09 -0000 1.77
+++ htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 4 Feb 2015 16:12:32 -0000
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@
<li>Support for the Cavium ThunderX processor is now available through the
<code>-mcpu=thunderx</code> and <code>-mtune=thunderx</code> options.
</li>
+ <li>Support for the Cortex-A72 processor has been added through
+ the <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72</code> option and the big.LITTLE
+ variant <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72.cortex-a53</code>. Using these options
+ requires a version of GNU binutils that has support for the Cortex-A72.
+ </li>
<li>The transitional options <code>-mlra</code> and <code>-mno-lra</code>
have been removed. The AArch64 backend now uses the local register
allocator (LRA) only.
@@ -513,6 +518,11 @@
<code>-mcpu=cortex-a17.cortex-a7 </code> and
<code>-mtune=cortex-a17.cortex-a7</code> options.
</li>
+ <li>Support for the Cortex-A72 processor has been added through
+ the <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72</code> option and the big.LITTLE
+ variant <code>-mcpu=cortex-a72.cortex-a53</code>. Using these options
+ requires a version of GNU binutils that has support for the Cortex-A72.
+ </li>
<li> The deprecated option <code>-mwords-little-endian</code>
has been removed.
</li>