Re: [PATCH][ARM] Add Cortex-A17 support

[Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at arm dot com>]

On 27/11/14 11:09, Kyrill Tkachov wrote:
> On 27/11/14 08:52, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Kyrill Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > This patch adds support for the Cortex-A17 processor to the arm backend.
> > > Cortex-A17 is an ARMv7ve core with the same architectural features as the
> > > Cortex-A7, A12 and A15 cores.
> > > The -m{tune, cpu}=cortex-a17 option is added and a pipeline description for
> > > instruction scheduling is provided.
> > > This has given an uplift over -mcpu=cortex-a15 tuning on a number of
> > > benchmarks.
> > >
> > > The patch is fairly self-contained with the bulk of the diffstat being the
> > > pipeline description files.
> > >
> > > Bootstrapped and tested on arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.
> > >
> > > Ok for trunk?
> > Ok with documentation update in invoke.texi and an entry for changes.html
>
> Hi Ramana,
>
> Thanks for the review. The invoke.texi changes were posted and approved
> at https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-11/msg02683.html
> and I'm attaching the proposed changes.html patch.

Ok thanks.

Ramana

> Kyrill
>
> > Ramana
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kyrill
> > >
> > > 2014-11-13  Kyrylo Tkachov  <kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com>
> > >
> > >       * config/arm/arm.md (generic_sched): Specify cortexa17 in 'no' list.
> > >       Include cortex-a17.md.
> > >       * config/arm/arm.c (arm_issue_rate): Specify 2 for cortexa17.
> > >       * config/arm/arm-cores.def (cortex-a17): New entry.
> > >       * config/arm/arm-tables.opt: Regenerate.
> > >       * config/arm/arm-tune.md: Regenerate.
> > >       * config/arm/bpabi.h (BE8_LINK_SPEC): Specify mcpu=cortex-a17.
> > >       * config/arm/cortex-a17.md: New file.
> > >       * config/arm/cortex-a17-neon.md: New file.
> > >       * config/arm/driver-arm.c (arm_cpu_table): Add entry for cortex-a17.
> > >       * config/arm/t-aprofile: Add cortex-a17 entries to MULTILIB_MATCHES.