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Re: [PATCH][wwwdocs] Mention xgene-1 in arm and aarch64, FreeBSD support for arm
- From: Richard Earnshaw <Richard dot Earnshaw at foss dot arm dot com>
- To: Kyrill Tkachov <kyrylo dot tkachov at arm dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: "gerald at pfeifer dot com" <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at arm dot com>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at arm dot com>, Philipp Tomsich <philipp dot tomsich at theobroma-systems dot com>, andreast at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:14:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][wwwdocs] Mention xgene-1 in arm and aarch64, FreeBSD support for arm
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On 13/02/15 09:52, Kyrill Tkachov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patch to changes.html mentions the xgene1 support in GCC 5 for arm
> and aarch64 and also the FreeBSD support for ARM.
>
> Is this ok?
The repetitive nature of all these new cpus being added looks rather
wooden. I think it would be better to merge them into one change block,
that lists all the cpus and their internal names, then mentions once at
the end that these names can be used as arguments to -mcpu and -mtune.
R.
> I added the FreeBSD part in the Operating Systems section similar to
> Dragonfly BSD.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyrill
>
> wwwdocs-xgene-freebsd.patch
>
>
> Index: htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.80
> diff -U 3 -r1.80 changes.html
> --- htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 9 Feb 2015 11:54:27 -0000 1.80
> +++ htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html 11 Feb 2015 17:24:14 -0000
> @@ -480,6 +480,9 @@
> <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 Applied Micro X-Gene processor is now available through
> + the <code>-mcpu=xgene1</code> and <code>-mtune=xgene1</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
> @@ -512,6 +515,9 @@
> <li> Support for the Cortex-A17 processor has been added through the
> <code>-mcpu=cortex-a17</code> and <code>-mtune=cortex-a17</code> options.
> </li>
> + <li>Support for the Applied Micro X-Gene processor is now available through
> + the <code>-mcpu=xgene1</code> and <code>-mtune=xgene1</code> options.
> + </li>
> <li> Support for the Cortex-M7 processor has been added through the
> <code>-mcpu=cortex-m7</code> and <code>-mtune=cortex-m7</code> options.
> </li>
> @@ -666,6 +672,13 @@
> <li>GCC now supports the DragonFly BSD operating system.</li>
> </ul>
>
> + <h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3>
> +
> + <ul>
> + <li>GCC now supports the FreeBSD operating system for the arm port
> + through the <code>arm*-*-freebsd*</code> target triplets.</li>
> + </ul>
> +
> <h3 id="vxmils">VxWorks MILS</h3>
>
> <ul>
>