[PATCH][ARM] Add Cortex-A17 support

[Kyrill Tkachov]

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.

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.
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